Greetings everyone, Graduation marks a momentous transition. College, at its best, involves compelling challenges, unexpected failure, surprising success, new friendships, bumps in the road, emerging identities, awesome instructors, mind-blowing discoveries, nascent skills. It’s so often …
Alumni
The Scoop with Dr. Kate – Summer 2024
Hello again dear Gender and Women’s Studies and LGBTQ+ Studies alumni! A very happy cusp of summer to you! We have reached the end of another academic year, and with that occasion, we are gifted …
Alumni Voices: Material that Moved Us
In the Fall 2023 newsletter, we asked our alumni about a piece of media (a book, an article, a film, etc.) that made an impact on them during their time in GWS, and what made …
Bound Lives: Africans, Indians, and the Making of Race in Colonial Peru
Alumni Reflections – Favorite Courses
This past summer we asked our alumni about their most memorable Gender and Women’s Studies courses (Women’s Studies courses for some of you). We’re so grateful that many of you shared your most transformative courses, …
Sunburst Chairs
Dean Dvorak – Alumni Spotlight, Class of 2022
Dean Dvorak graduated in May 2022 with majors in Gender and Women’s Studies and Molecular Biology. Dean is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology at UW-Madison. How does GWS matter in the day-to-day …
Day of the Badger Success!
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 …
GWS Alum is the Writer in the Room at Hallmark
Melvina Young has taken her experience in gender and women’s studies, women’s history, and African-American Studies classrooms and has developed a line of greeting cards as a senior writer at Hallmark. Melvina describes what she …
Hope Tyson – Alumni Spotlight, Class of 2012
Hope Tyson, Class of 2012, graduated with majors in Women’s Studies and Latin American Studies. Learn more about the work Hope is doing today. Describe your work. How did you get to this point in …