Dear GWS Alums and Friends, I write to you on a chilly February day during which I am starting to wonder if winter will ever end. While there is no snow on the ground, last week I was tricked by what I have heard described as “Fake Spring” and had started to get used to …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
Name: Joslyn Mink Pronouns: She/Her Hometown: Menomonee Falls, WI Educational /Professional Background: I earned my Botany Undergraduate Degree and Environment & Resources Masters’ Degree from UW Madison. This was followed by a decade of working in the food industry, starting as a Production Manager to Pastry Chef to General Manager all within Underground Food Collective. …
The Department of Gender & Women’s Studies (GWS) is looking for graduate students interested in TAing undergraduate courses for the Fall 2024 semester. Applications for these 50% Teaching Assistant positions are open to both incoming and continuing students. Teaching experience and familiarity with LGBTQ+ Studies and/or Gender and Women’s Studies is preferred. GWS is recruiting …
Congratulations to Kelly M. Ward on receiving a Career Enhancement Fellowship from the Institute for Citizens and Scholars. This is a one year fellowship award which is funded by the Mellon Foundation. It provides a stipend for travel and research for “outstanding junior faculty committed to campus diversity and innovative research in the humanities and …
Join us in extending a hearty congratulations to GWS Associate Professor Annie Menzel for receiving one of thirteen Distinguished Teaching Awards! Professor Menzel was awarded the Class of 1955 Teaching Excellence Award. The Distinguished Teaching Awards have been given out since 1953 to recognize some of the university’s finest educators. A ceremony will take place …
Greetings dear GWS Alumni! For those of you who do not know me, I am excited and delighted to introduce myself as the newly named alumni engagement coordinator for Gender and Women’s Studies here at UW-Madison! My name is Dr. Kate Phelps (she/they) and I have been teaching with the department since the Spring 2017 …