Name: Lyddia Ruch-Doll (Ruch rhymes with book) Pronouns: she/her (they/them also acceptable) Hometown: Sun Prairie, WI Position Title(s): Administrator, Gender & Women’s Studies, Center for Research on Gender and Women, and the UW-System Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium How long have worked at GWS? Since September 2021! I’m pretty new to GWS, but I …
Thank you to all who contributed to the Department of Gender & Women’s Day of the Badger success! We are humbled and honored that so many of you chose to support Gender & Women’s Studies this year. Some of the highlights of this online day of giving campaign included: We more than met our matching …
Melvina Young has taken her experience in gender and women’s studies, women’s history, and African-American Studies classrooms and has developed a line of greeting cards as a senior writer at Hallmark. Melvina describes what she does “is more than just writing cards; it’s connecting people on an emotional level that is culturally authentic and empowering.” …
Hope Tyson, Class of 2012, graduated with majors in Women’s Studies and Latin American Studies. Learn more about the work Hope is doing today. Describe your work. How did you get to this point in your professional life? When I graduated from UW, I knew I wanted a career focused on gender equity and health. …
Nyesha Brown, Class of 2017, graduated with majors in Gender & Women’s and Human Development and Family Studies. Learn more about what Nyesha is doing today. Describe your work. How did you get to this point in your professional life? After I graduated from UW–Madison, I immediately started my Master’s program in Women’s and Gender …
May 2019 marked the 150th anniversary of the awarding of bachelor’s degrees to women at UW–Madison. UW Women at 150’s mission, initiated in 2018-19 and to be continued beyond, is to celebrate the contributions of women and the achievements of our alumnae, and to give voice to their resilience in the face of adversity. Stories …
Professors Chris Garlough and Annie Menzel with graduate students Agnes Muyanga and Flint Devine have been awarded support for an interdisciplinary Borghesi-Mellon Workshop in 2019-2020! This Borghese-Mellon Workshop — titled “Care: Politics, Performances, Practices” — hopes to open discussion of “feminist care theory” informed by socialist feminists, reproductive justice advocates, performance studies scholars, disability activists, domestic labor organizers, …
Professor Sami Schalk is interviewed for Space the Nation in the SYFY Wire. Schalk “believes today’s mainstream science fiction erases disability in the same way some early utopian science fiction erased racial differences, even as our history proves that disabled people have always been the ones pushing technology into the future.”
Chair of Gender & Women’s Studies, Professor Aili Tripp, weighs in on how the impact of the newly elected, all female-identified Madison Metropolitan School Board, one that also includes several women of color, may have on upcoming policy changes.