Category: 2020

Professor Anna Campbell Featured in L&S Newly Tenured Faculty Reception

GWS Associate Professor Anna Campbell was recently featured in a virtual reception and interview for newly tenured faculty, hosted by the College of Letters & Science. Professor Campbell shares about her work: “What I’m interested in is having people – in a bodily way – perceive some of the underlying structures of power and dominance …

Professor Marwa Shalaby Publishes Piece on Faculty Gender Dynamics Amidst the Pandemic

Assistant Professor Marwa Shalaby has a new piece in Inside Higher Ed, “Gender, COVID and Faculty Service,” about the gendered effects of institutional service on faculty research productivity amidst the pandemic. Shalaby, along with Drs. Nermin Allam and Gail Buttorff, administered an online survey of more than 200 social sciences and humanities faculty members, both …

Dr. Araceli Alonso Teaches Study Abroad Course Virtually

Dr. Araceli Alonso, Distinguished Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of UNESCO Chair on Gender, Wellbeing and Culture of Peace, has been teaching a study abroad course to UW–Madison students as part of the UW’s Circle of Care for Global Health and Human Rights study abroad program. This past summer was the sixth year of this program. …

Professor Jill H. Casid Featured in Day With(out) Art Event

On Wednesday, December 2nd from 5-7pm, Professor Jill H. Casid of Gender and Women’s Studies and Art History will be in conversation with multidisciplinary artist Kang Seung Lee, for Day With(out) Art, presented by Visual Aids. The virtual event will begin with a screening of TRANSMISSIONS, a program of 6 new videos considering the impact …

Caitlin Flynn – Alumni Spotlight, Class of 2016

Caitlin Flynn graduated in 2016 with majors in Journalism and International Studies and a certificate in Gender and Women’s Studies. Currently, Caitlin is a graduate student at the Fletcher School at Tufts University pursuing Law and Diplomacy with concentrations in Gender Analysis of International Relations and Human Security. Caitlin expects to graduate in May 2021. …

Video of Sarah Deer and Bonnie Clairmont Conversation

The Borghesi-Mellon Center for Care Initiative, stewarded by GWS faculty Chris Garlough and Annie Menzel with Professor Michael Peterson from Art and Interdisciplinary Theater Studies, hosted a virtual conversation with Sarah Deer and Bonnie Clairmont. The event, co-hosted with the WUD Distinguished Lecture Series on November 9, 2020, was titled “Confronting Sexual Violence in the …

GWS and LGBTQ+ Studies Grad Featured in On Wisconsin Magazine

On Wisconsin Magazine published this story about GWS and LGBTQ+ Studies Certificate alum Elise Rylander (’12). Elise created her nonprofit Out There Adventures (OTA), which she began brainstorming during her LGBTQ+ Studies capstone course. “Knowing what a profound impact that time outside had for me, especially when I was coming to terms with my queer …

Professor Sami Schalk Debuts Video on Disability Justice and Pleasure Activism

Professor Sami Schalk was featured at a virtual event on November 18, hosted by the Ford Foundation, titled, “#QuarantineLooks: Embracing the Fabulously Mundane.” As an act of pleasure activism and self-care during the pandemic lockdown, Professor Schalk began posting images of herself on social media with sparkly new hairstyles, outfits, and facemasks. The act of …

The Art of State Street: Politics, Policing, and Protest

In the wake of the killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd by the police, artists and activists took to the streets to protest for racial justice. They created art as part of the protests, lining boarded-up store fronts with visual memorials and calls to action. On November 18th at 7pm, artists Shiloah Symone Coley and …

Professor Marwa Shalaby Has Been Awarded a Grant to Study Gender Politics in the MENA

GWS and Political Science Professor Marwa Shalaby (with Ellen Lust and Lena Wängnerud) has been awarded a grant of approximately $50,400 USD from the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) Foundation to study gender politics in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has seen momentous upheavals since 2011, and this …