GWS Faculty Shout Out – Jill Casid

Professor Jill Casid noted as a “particularly influential” Art History professor by alum curating the 2026 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the longest-running survey of American art and …

Letter from the Chair Judith Houck

Dear Gender and Women’s Studies Community, It is a profoundly challenging and demoralizing moment as the Gender and Women’s Studies community, and the values we affirm, are under attack. But our community is wide and …

The Scoop from Dr. Kate

Greetings dear GWS and LGBTQ+ Alumni Community! If you’re reading this right now, I sincerely hope that you will let your shoulders drop, let your jaw unclench, do a few nice head rolls, and take …

Faculty Focus: Hanan Al-Alawi

Visiting Assistant Professor Hanan Al-Alawi, who joined Gender and Women’s Studies in Fall 2024, is our March 2025 Faculty Focus! She is currently teaching GWS 101: Gender, Women, and Cultural Representation and GWS 345: Narrating …