Claudia Liu graduated from UW–Madison with majors in Biochemistry and Gender and Women’s Studies and a certificate in Japanese Professional Communication in May 2021. Claudia is currently a first-year Ph.D. student at Harvard University in the Chemical Biology Graduate Program. How does Gender and Women’s Studies matter in the day-to-day of your professional life? I …
The Department of Gender and Women’s Studies is pleased to announce Dr. Judith Houck — Gender & Women’s Studies Chair, and Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies, and History — has been honored with the Chancellor’s Inclusive Excellence Award, from the UW–Madison Distinguished Teaching Awards Committee. This prestigious award celebrates UW–Madison Faculty and Instructional Staff …
The Department of Gender & Women’s Studies, and the Center for Research on Gender & Women are excited to announce our first ever Dissertation Fellow in LGBTQ+ Studies, Simon D. Elin Fisher! Simon is a PhD candidate in the Gender & Women’s History Program in the Department of History with a minor in African American …
Join Delaney Dvorak and Dr. Kate Phelps, Lecturer in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at UW–Madison for a body mapping workshop in two sessions. Body mapping is an arts-based method used for a variety of purposes including as a research method, for therapeutic intervention, in community development, as an educational tool, for psychological …
The Department of Gender and Women’s Studies is delighted to announce that Associate Professor Sami Schalk has been awarded the University of Wisconsin System Outstanding Women of Color in Education Award. This award, created in 1994, honors women of color from around the state for their leadership in making significant and lasting contributions to their …
The Department of Gender and Women’s Studies is thrilled to announce that Professor ’s Seeking Legitimacy: Why Arab Autocracies Adopt Women’s Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2019), has been selected as one of two 2021 L. Carl Brown AIMS Book Prize winners. AIMS is the American Institute for Maghrib Studies. The award will be announced at the October …
Professor Sami Schalk was featured in Madison Magazine’s “Faces of Pride” piece with 10 other Madisonians, as part of LGBTQ+ Pride Month. Professor Schalk shares ways in which her local queer community showed up for her this past year, particularly during #BlackLivesMatter activism and during the isolation of the pandemic. Read the full piece here.
GWS second-year MA student Rodlyn-mae Banting published a new article in Bitch Media, “License to Feel: ‘SOUR’ Highlights the Unique Wisdom of Teen Girls.” “My instinct to recoil at Rodrigo’s admission that she’s not over her ex-boyfriend, the object of ‘driver’s license,’ is a learned response to teen girlhood; it is a reflection of how …
This spring, the GWS internship course went online. Students did fantastic work for Madison-based organizations like End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin, Legal Action of Wisconsin, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Women’s Network, and the Office of the Gender and Women’s Studies Librarian. Madelyn Adler, an intern with the Wisconsin Women’s Network, developed a compelling visualization …
Thank you to all who contributed to the Department of Gender & Women’s Day of the Badger success! We are humbled and honored that so many of you chose to support Gender & Women’s Studies this year. Some of the highlights of this online day of giving campaign included: We more than met our matching …