Isobel Ashby, a second year graduate student, majoring in United States History, and minoring in Gender & Women’s Studies, at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, has received the Worcester/Whatley/Leavitt Award for her work in gender and health. She comes to UW–Madison with a Masters in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge, and a Bachelor …
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 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 …
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!
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 …
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!
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!