We mourn with the Asian American and Asian communities the murder of eight people, six of them women of Asian heritage, in Georgia on March 16. While there is still much unknown about these killings, it is clear they take place in a larger context of increased anti-Asian violence in the United States over the …
GWS Kelly Marie Ward has received the 2021 Carole Joffe and Stanley Henshaw Early Achievement in Social Science Research Award. This award, given by the National Abortion Federation (NAF), honors an individual who has made exceptional contributions to generating abortion-related knowledge. NAF notes that “through [Dr. Ward’s] research on how institutional changes to health care …
We are excited to announce the new podcast, Collegeland, hosted by GWS faculty affiliate and Community and Environmental Sociology Professor Nan Enstad and UW-Madison graduate Lisa Levenstein. 23 million people work and study at U.S. colleges and universities. Collegeland takes you on campus for the real stories. Episodes include topics such as food insecurity on …
Peter Zook graduated from UW-Madison in 2010 with majors in Sociology, Journalism & Mass Communications; and Certificates in LGBT Studies and African Studies. He is now a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Philadelphia, PA. How does LGBTQ+ Studies matter in the day-to-day of your professional life? As a queer therapist who works mostly with queer …
Professor Pernille Ipsen’s book, Et åbent øjeblik (An Open Moment)—a collective biography of her seven mothers and their lives in and with the Danish women’s and lesbian movements in the 1970s—has been nominated for three major prizes in Denmark. Dr. Ipsen received the most prestigious one of them, the Montana prize, given by the daily …
Julia is a junior majoring in Gender and Women’s Studies and Health Promotion and Health Equity. In the last year, Julia worked with a team of physicians, health care and organization development experts to create and implement a COVID-19 hospital safety strategy. The mitigation approach they developed involved novel safety practices put in place in …