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 …
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Whitney Anderson Receives GSCC Honorary Rainbow Degree
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 …
Professor Keisha Lindsay Receives UW Exceptional Service Award
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 …
Professor Kelly Marie Ward Receives Early Achievement in Social Science Research Award
GWS and Sociology Professor 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 …
Professor Pernille Ipsen’s Book Nominated for Three Major Prizes in Denmark
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 …
Professor Annie Menzel Receives Research Service Grant Award
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 …
Professor Anna Campbell Selected for Appointment as Vilas Associate
Professor Anna Campbell has been selected for appointment as a Vilas Associate, which “recognizes new and on-going research of the highest quality and significance.” Congratulations, Professor Campbell on this remarkable accomplishment!
Professor Sami Schalk Receives Distinguished Teaching Award
Professor Sami Schalk has received a Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award for Inclusive Excellence, which “celebrates exemplary achievements in teaching that honor the university’s value of diversity and inclusion as the path to excellence.” “Her full …
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 …
Professor Sami Schalk Receives Outstanding Women of Color Award
GWS Professor Sami Schalk has received a 2020-21 UW-Madison Outstanding Women of Color Award! This is an annual honor presented by the UW-Madison Office of the Interim Deputy Vice Chancellor and Chief Diversity Officer, and …