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 …
Professor Annie Menzel is excited to be joining the Department of Gender & Women’s Studies this fall semester. Professor Menzel is teaching Childbirth in the U.S. again for the first time in many semesters. In the spring, Professor Menzel will be teaching the gender and health course, The Science and Politics of Reproductive Health and …
Professor Janet Sibley Hyde has been selected for the highly prestigious James McKeen Cattell Award by the Association for Psychological Science.
Jill H. Casid is thrilled to be joining the faculty of Gender and Women’s Studies after teaching cross-listed courses in queer theory and visual culture for the LGBT certificate for many years as an affiliate. She looks forward with excitement to offering courses in queer theory, feminist theory, and visual culture and media on a regular …
The majority of new contraceptive users become dissatisfied with their birth control method and stop using it after only a few months. Researchers are still trying to understand the major factors that lead to this contraceptive dissatisfaction and continuation. GWS professor Jenny Higgins argues that a critical but overlooked factor is sexual acceptability, or how …
I’m excited to join the faculty at UW Madison after a year as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Oberlin College! I am a multidisciplinary feminist scholar and educator whose work combines feminist science studies, critical public health, and critical race theory to investigate the politics of health promotion aimed …
Dr. Sami Schalk is thrilled to join the Department of Gender & Women’s Studies at UW-Madison. Professor Schalk earned her PhD in Gender Studies at Indiana University and worked at SUNY Albany and Rutgers prior to coming to Madison. Her research focuses on disability, race, and gender in contemporary American literature and culture, especially African …
We are pleased to welcome GWS & Political Science Professor Aili Tripp as the new Chair of our department! We look forward to your leadership in Gender & Women’s Studies, Aili.