Oliver DiPietro, an MA student in Gender & Women’s Studies with a certificate in Leadership and Ashley Shaw Adams, a freelance artist have won first prize for their work on The Big Gay Market. The Big Gay Market hosts accessible and inclusive LGBTQ+ friendly markets in the Madison area that feature LGBTQ+ makers and allies …
Dr. Finn Enke and MA student Orion Risk have both received Awards in the Creative Arts for 2023 from the Division of the Arts. The Emily Mead Baldwin Award in the Creative Arts was granted to Dr. Enke for their work, which “engages the porousness of life-death, dis/ability, and the interplay of visible and nonvisible aspects …
Join us in sharing our sincere congratulations with Dr. Aili Mari Tripp, Wangari Maathai Professor of Political Science and Gender and Women’s Studies! Dr. Tripp has been awarded with a Vilas Research Professorship. To read more about Dr. Tripp, her research, and the Vilas Research Professorship, read the article here. Congratulations Dr. Tripp!
The Feminist Scholars Fellows for 2022-2023 have been chosen. Dr. Sandra Adell, Evjue Bascom Professor, of Afro-American Studies, and Dr. Sami Schalk, Associate Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies will be released from teaching to spend a semester focusing on their respective feminist research projects. Dr. Adell will spend the Fall 2022 semester completing her …
Gender & Women’s Studies Undergraduate student, Rachel Litchman, has been honored with the UW–Madison, College of Letters & Sciences Ginsberg Family Award. This award, formerly the Meyerhoff Undergraduate Excellence Awards for Leadership, Service and Scholarship, recognized students who have made outstanding leadership and service contributions to the University and/or the surrounding communities while maintaining a …
The Department of Gender & Women’s Studies is proud to announce that the Gender and Sexuality Campus Center (GSCC) has chosen Dr. Sami Schalk as their 2022 Honorary Rainbow Degree recipient. This award was created to honor a faculty, staff, or community member for their strong partnership to the GSCC and/or their mission. Dr. Schalk’s …
This year’s Dr. Ruth Bleier Scholarship in the Natural Sciences award winner is Kimberly Stathas (she/her). Kimberly is an undergraduate student with a planned graduation date of Spring 2023 with degrees in Biology, and Gender & Women’s Studies. After graduation, she plans to attend medical school and apply feminist theory to providing quality care, as Dr. Ruth …
Join us in congratulating the Spring 2022 winners of the LGBTQ+ Studies Scholarship winners. This scholarship, generously provided by David A. Kaplan and Glenn A. Ostergaard, and the Brautigam/Kaplan Foundation, was created with the intention of encouraging outstanding students in the LGBTQ+ Studies Certificate program. Read on for more information on this year’s winners, their …
Shahana Munazir, a graduate student in University of Wisconsin – Madison’s Department of Anthropology, has received the Hyde Dissertation Research Award for Graduate Students. She holds a Bachelor’s in History from the University of Delhi and Master of Science and Master of Philosophy from the University of Oxford. Her dissertation is titled “Daughters of Destiny: …
This year’s Mary Washburn Willets Award recipient is Valeriia Umanets. Valeriia holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Perm State University in Russia, as well as a Master of Philosophy in Politics: Comparative Government from the University of Oxford. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin – …