Congratulations to Whitney Anderson, Program Coordinator for Open House Learning Community and GWS Administrative Assistant, who has received an Honorary Rainbow Degree from the Gender and Sexuality Campus Center! This Honorary Degree highlights her many contributions and commitments to UW-Madison LGBTQ+ students through her work as the Program Coordinator for the Open House Gender …
GWS and Political Science Professor Keisha Lindsay has received the University’s Exceptional Service Award. This program supports faculty members, especially women and those from historically underrepresented groups, who are often asked to engage in service that is disproportionate to those of other faculty. Congratulations, Professor Lindsay!
Associate Professor Kate Walsh is our April Faculty Focus. Read more about Dr. Walsh below. Professor Walsh, who began her appointment in Fall 2020, holds an appointment in GWS and Psychology, and she is the lead of the Sexual Violence Research Initiative. Hometown: Benton, Maine Educational/professional background: I earned my PhD in Clinical Psychology from …
We mourn with the Asian American and Asian communities the murder of eight people, six of them women of Asian heritage, in Georgia on March 16. While there is still much unknown about these killings, it is clear they take place in a larger context of increased anti-Asian violence in the United States over the …
GWS Kelly Marie Ward has received the 2021 Carole Joffe and Stanley Henshaw Early Achievement in Social Science Research Award. This award, given by the National Abortion Federation (NAF), honors an individual who has made exceptional contributions to generating abortion-related knowledge. NAF notes that “through [Dr. Ward’s] research on how institutional changes to health care …
We are excited to announce the new podcast, Collegeland, hosted by GWS faculty affiliate and Community and Environmental Sociology Professor Nan Enstad and UW-Madison graduate Lisa Levenstein. 23 million people work and study at U.S. colleges and universities. Collegeland takes you on campus for the real stories. Episodes include topics such as food insecurity on …
Peter Zook graduated from UW-Madison in 2010 with majors in Sociology, Journalism & Mass Communications; and Certificates in LGBT Studies and African Studies. He is now a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Philadelphia, PA. How does LGBTQ+ Studies matter in the day-to-day of your professional life? As a queer therapist who works mostly with queer …
Professor Pernille Ipsen’s book, Et åbent øjeblik (An Open Moment)—a collective biography of her seven mothers and their lives in and with the Danish women’s and lesbian movements in the 1970s—has been nominated for three major prizes in Denmark. Dr. Ipsen received the most prestigious one of them, the Montana prize, given by the daily …
Professor Annie Menzel received a Research Service Grant Award for Summer 2021, for her summer research project, “Birthing Paradox: Race, Colonization, and Radicalism in US Midwifery.” This award recognizes the “service contributions that untenured faculty members, especially women and members of minority groups, are asked to make to the University.” Congratulations, Professor Menzel!
Assistant Professor Kelly Marie Ward, whose position began in Fall 2020, is our February Faculty Focus. She is currently an Anna Julia Cooper Postdoctoral Fellow, and they will begin teaching courses in Gender and Women’s Studies and Sociology in Fall 2021. Read more about Dr. Ward below. Name: Kelly Marie Ward Hometown: Seattle, WA Educational/professional …