Administrative Staff Positions in Gender and Women’s Studies, UW-Madison Gender and Women’s Studies is seeking a new half-time (50%) Administrative Assistant (USA2) for the main office. Please find the direct link to the job posting …
2019
GWS Faculty & Graduate Students Awarded Support for Interdisciplinary Borghesi-Mellon Workshop
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 …
The Future is Female – and Black, and Disabled
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 …
Chair of GWS Weighs in on the Newly Elected Local School Board
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 …
How the Partnership of Church and State Shaped Women’s Reproductive Rights
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.
Lowbrow Culture and Guilty Pleasures? The Performance and Harm of Academic Elitism
Professor Sami Schalk, in Inside Higher Ed, questions the arbitrariness and biases of scholarly standards for so-called lowbrow subjects and activities.
Hyde recipient of the Kinsey Institute’s inaugural Alfred C. Kinsey Distinguished Researcher Award
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… .
GWS Statement of Support for the Asian American Community
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, …
Open Lectures at the GWS Graduate Symposium
Sites/Sights/Cites of Resistance, the Gender and Women’s Studies 2019 Graduate Symposium, is taking place this Friday and Saturday, March 29-30, 2019, Sterling Hall, UW-Madison. All talks listed below are free and open to the public, …