University of Wisconsin–Madison

Month: May 2024

Chair’s Letter – Summer 2024

Greetings everyone, Graduation marks a momentous transition. College, at its best, involves compelling challenges, unexpected failure, surprising success, new friendships, bumps in the road, emerging identities, awesome instructors, mind-blowing discoveries, nascent skills. It’s so often heady and humbling and heartbreaking, exhilarating and inspiring. For all it asks and all we give, it can be hard …

The Scoop with Dr. Kate – Summer 2024

Hello again dear Gender and Women’s Studies and LGBTQ+ Studies alumni! A very happy cusp of summer to you! We have reached the end of another academic year, and with that occasion, we are gifted the opportunity to reflect on our own collegiate experiences and the feelings evoked as we consider what was going on …

Saying Goodbye to the GWS MA Program

This spring 2024 our very last cohort of four MA students will graduate! Since 2007 we have welcomed between two and five MA students each year. As they move through the program and exercise their scholarly voices, we then watch them graduate and take their degrees to the next chapters of their lives, to new …

The First GWS/LGBTQ+ Studies Alumni Campfire!

This past April 2024, we practiced joy in community by hosting our very first alumni and student campfire! For this event, we invited five of our awesome alumni to visit with undergraduate students, speak about their experiences post-graduation, answer questions, make s’mores, and share in some general merriment with music and beautiful weather around a …

Prof. Anna Campbell wins the Emily Mead Baldwin Award in the Creative Arts

Join us in extending a hearty congratulations to Professor Anna Campbell for receiving the Emily Mead Baldwin Award in the Creative Arts! The Emily Mead Baldwin Award in the Creative Arts (established in 1997) recognizes and honors extraordinary artistic projects and endeavors of the highest quality carried out by tenured members of the UW–Madison arts faculty. …