The work of GWS Chair and Professor Aili Mari Tripp has been featured in a Politico article, “These 5 Places Tried Bold Political Experiments. Did They Work?” Author Jill Filipovic cited Tripp’s work in the “Rwanda: Gender Quotas” section, describing Tripp’s research about women gaining “political legitimacy and power.” See full quote below. Aili Mari …
We are excited to share a short video (<2 min), by UW–Madison student and course participant Nia Cayenne, about the Summer 2019 Morocco-Spain Course. The video is titled “UW Global Health and Human Rights Training in Spain and Morocco to Combat Sex-Trafficking.” Taught by Dr. Araceli Alonso and Esperanza Jorge, this undergraduate summer course uses …
The 6th Annual Feminist Faculty Book Party will take place on Fri, Oct 4 from 6-8pm at A Room of One’s Own Bookstore. This event brings together faculty authors from UW–Madison and other local colleges who have published books in the current academic year. This year, we convene to celebrate the recently released work of: …
GWS Professor Keisha Lindsay’s recent book, In a Classroom of Their Own: The Intersection of Race and Feminist Politics in All-Black Male Schools has won the 2019 Michael Harrington Book Award from the New Political Science Caucus of the American Political Science Association. This annual award “recognizes an outstanding book that demonstrates how scholarship can …
GWS Professor Sami Schalk will be awarded the LGBTQ Advocate of the Year by Madison’s OutReach LGBT Community Center. This award commemorates Professor Schalk’s accomplishments, during the past year as well as over the course of her life, that advance the equality and quality of life for LGBT people. Professor Schalk will be honored for …
The following article by Janet Shibley Hyde, PhD, Rebecca S. Bigler, PhD, Daphna Joel, PhD, Charlotte Chucky Tate, PhD, and Sari M. van Anders, PhD has been awarded the 2019 George A. Miller Award for an Outstanding Recent Article on General Psychology from Division 1, Society for General Psychology. Hyde, J. S., Bigler, R., Joel, …
GWS Department Chair Professor Aili Mari Tripp’s new book came out today! In Seeking Legitimacy: Why Arab Autocracies Adopt Women’s Rights, Professor Tripp explains why autocratic leaders in Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria embraced more extensive legal reforms of women’s rights than their Middle Eastern counterparts. The study challenges existing accounts that rely primarily on religiosity …
The Departments of Sociology and Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison seek to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor of the Social Causes and Consequences of Reproductive Health Inequities. The successful candidate will have well-established research and teaching interests in the underlying causes and/or pathways to reproductive health and health disparities as well …
The Departments of Psychology and Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison seek to hire a tenure-track Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor with research and teaching interests in the psychological aspects of sexual violence. Job duties for faculty positions include research, teaching, and service. Ph.D. in Psychology or Gender & Women’s Studies, with …