Year: 2022

GWS Student, and Youth Action Board Member, Rachel Litchman Speaker at WI State Capitol Homelessness Event

Faculty Focus – Dr. Leigh Senderowicz

Name: Leigh Senderowicz Title: Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Obstetrics and Gynecology Hometown: Very proud Philadelphian Educational/professional background: I did my undergrad at Wesleyan, where I majored in anthropology and gender studies. I was a Watson Fellow after college, before coming back to the US to work for a couple of years …

Dr. Finn Enke Honored with UW System Award

The UW System has awarded Professor Finn Enke (Gender & Women’s Studies, and History) the Dr. P.B. Poorman Award for Outstanding Achievement on Behalf of LGBTQ+ People, which is one of two DEI awards given to members of the UW System each year. This award is given to a UW System faculty, staff member, student, …

Department Statement

The Department of Gender and Women’s Studies further affirms and celebrates our trans*, nonbinary and gender expansive community members. We will continue to work for the fullest presence of trans*, nonbinary and gender expansive lives; we view it as our job as public educators to actively protect and promote trans* access to public facilities, health …

Fill the Hill 2022

This year, in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies (GWS), our goal is to make unpaid research, professional travel, and internship opportunities more accessible to our students. We are raising funds to provide GWS and LGBTQ+ studies students with financial support to participate in these kinds of professional development opportunities. Our students benefit immeasurably …

Book Events – Black Disability Politics

Celebrate the release of Dr. Sami Schalk’s new book, Black Disability Politics, at one of two (or both!) book release events! Wednesday October 26 10-11:30am CST. The Ford Foundation will host a hybrid (in person in NYC and streaming) event where Dr. Schalk will be in conversation with several of the activists she interviewed for the project, …

ASSISTANT OR ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, GENDER AND INDIGENEITY

The Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at University of Wisconsin Madison seeks applications from scholars with expertise in gender and indigeneity, and/or race and ethnicity, for a nine-month, full-time, permanent tenure-track position to begin August 2023. Applicants with PhDs in Gender and Women’s Studies are especially invited to apply but scholars with appropriate training …

GWS Response to Upcoming Event

We are aware that a speaker is coming to campus on 10/24 with a film and viewpoints that are intentionally harmful and threatening to our trans* and nonbinary community members. People associated with the event have targeted GWS, hanging no less than 40 posters on departmental hallways and bulletin boards. We recognize that such actions …

New Publication by Dr. Leigh Senderowicz in SSM-Qualitative Research in Health

“She told me no, that you cannot change”: Understanding provider refusal to remove contraceptive implants Abstract Enthusiasm for long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) is growing among donors and NGOs throughout the global reproductive health field. There is an emerging concern, however, that the push to insert these methods has not been accompanied by a commensurate push …

Faculty Focus – Dr. Ruth Goldstein

Name: Ruth Goldstein Title: Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies Hometown: Baltimore, MD Educational/professional background: PhD in Medical Anthropology from UC Berkeley, MA in Folklore from UC Berkeley What is your field of research, and how did you get into it? I am a medical anthropologist by training. My position in Gender and Women’s …