Professor Jenny Higgins shares expertise on how the expanding influence of health care institutions funded by religious groups in Wisconsin contributes to the changing landscape of women’s reproductive care and policy.
Professor Sami Schalk, in Inside Higher Ed, questions the arbitrariness and biases of scholarly standards for so-called lowbrow subjects and activities.
Congratulations to Professor Janet Hyde who has been named as the recipient of the Kinsey Institute’s inaugural Alfred C. Kinsey Distinguished Researcher Award! Well deserved, Professor Hyde! More... .
The Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison supports and shares the concerns expressed by the Madison Asian American community about the staging of the musical Miss Saigon in Madison in April, 2019. We critique Miss Saigon in terms of gender and sexuality, as well as race and ethnicity, for its stereotyped and offensive …
Congratulations to Professor Chris Barcelos for being selected into the first cohort of Morgridge Fellows. This year-long learning community is designed to further institutionalize and support community-engaged scholarship across campus. Read more…
Professor Keisha Lindsay, associate professor of Gender & Women’s Studies and Political Science, recently published a groundbreaking new text, “In A Classroom of Their Own: The Intersection of Race and Feminist Politics in All Black Male Schools.” Lindsay explores the complicated politics and dilemmas of all-black male schools and how to create equitable education for …
Congratulations to Araceli Alonso for being the 2018 recipient of the Chancellor’s Hilldale Award for Excellence in Teaching! A well deserved honor for a life changing instructor.
Congratulations to Ann Fink on winning two recent awards! The first of which is a poster award at the International Neuroethics Society meeting in November for her work with comics and neuroscience pedagogy: Fink, AE. Teaching the Neurobiology of Stress and Traumatic Memory in the Context of Social Power and Identity. Abstract presented at the …
Congratulations to Jenny Higgins and her collaborators for winning a two-year planning grant from an anonymous donor to support their initiative, “Supporting Reproductive, Infant, and Family Health in Wisconsin”! The $575K grant will allow them to develop a campus-wide initiative focusing on reproductive health research, healthcare access and delivery, policy evaluation, and communication to address …