GWS Undergraduate Advisor Susan Nelson has won one of this year’s L&S Academic Advising Awards! Susan’s contributions to our students and our department go above and beyond. The L&S Academic Advising Award is awarded to exemplary advisors “who have gone beyond the call of duty and worked across school and college lines to serve the …
GWS Lecturer Dr. Kate Phelps has received a 4W Initiative Innovation Grant for her “body mapping research project that is exploring experiences of gendered embodiment in the university setting, especially related to how the perceived risk and threat of sexual violence can manifest and live in the body in various ways.” 4W Innovation Grants allow …
Gender and Women’s Studies Professor Anna Campbell was selected by the Arts Awards Review Committee of the UW–Madison Division of the Arts to receive the 2020 Edna Wiechers Arts in Wisconsin Award. This award supports and encourages the creation of new works that inspire and enrich the cultural activities in Wisconsin communities, especially those underserved …
GWS Professor Chris Barcelos won the Summer 2020 Research Service Award for exceptional service outside one’s own department. This program was initiated to recognize the service contributions that untenured faculty members, especially women and members of minority groups, are asked to make to the University. Such service promotes the University’s interest in having a broad …
GWS Professor Keisha Lindsay has won the Vilas Associates Award, which recognizes new and on-going research of the highest quality and significance. Professor Lindsay’s research and teaching interests include black feminist theories, black masculinities, and gender-based politics in the African diaspora. Her new book project, Black Ladies and the Art of Resistance: Intellectuals, Athletes, and …
Gender and Women’s Studies Professor Chris Garlough has been awarded the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award, an honor given out since 1953 to recognize UW–Madison’s finest educators. Established by former UW–Madison chancellor Edwin Young in 1973, this award honors six faculty members annually for their excellence in teaching. More information can be found here. Congratulations, Professor …
Gender and Women’s Studies Professor, Director of the Center for Research on Gender and Women (CRGW), and Psychology Professor Janet Hyde has been honored by Web of Science as a scientist whose papers rank in the top 1% for highest number of citations in her field over the past 10 years. The full 2019 Highly …
GWS affiliate Professor Nan Enstad’s book, Cigarettes, Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism, received the Albert J. Beveridge Award! This award, offered through the American Historical Association, recognizes a distinguished book in English on the history of the United States, Latin America, or Canada, from 1492 to the present. Below is a description of Cigarettes, …
GWS Professor Keisha Lindsay’s recent book, In a Classroom of Their Own: The Intersection of Race and Feminist Politics in All-Black Male Schools has won the 2019 Michael Harrington Book Award from the New Political Science Caucus of the American Political Science Association. This annual award “recognizes an outstanding book that demonstrates how scholarship can …
GWS Professor Sami Schalk will be awarded the LGBTQ Advocate of the Year by Madison’s OutReach LGBT Community Center. This award commemorates Professor Schalk’s accomplishments, during the past year as well as over the course of her life, that advance the equality and quality of life for LGBT people. Professor Schalk will be honored for …