Centering Resistance: Imaginings of a New Feminist Future April 7-9, 2022 Co-Convened by UW System Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium and UW System Gender and Women’s Studies Librarian Fully Virtual Event This year’s theme rests …
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Claudia Liu – Alumni Spotlight, Class of 2021
Claudia Liu graduated from UW-Madison with majors in Biochemistry and Gender and Women’s Studies and a certificate in Japanese Professional Communication in May 2021. Claudia is currently a first-year Ph.D. student at Harvard University in …
Bianca Yue – GWS Student Spotlight
Bianca Yue is a senior with a majors in Economics and Mathematics with a certificate in Gender and Women’s Studies. Bianca will graduate in May 2022. Read Bianca’s student spotlight to learn more. When and …
Spring 2022 Undergraduate Scholarships
Applications are open for two scholarships aimed at Undergraduate Students this spring. For the second year in a row, we’re excited to offer the Scholarship in LGBTQ+ Studies for Undergraduate Students. This scholarship is intended …
Body Mapping Research with Kate Phelps and Delaney Dvorak
Join Delaney Dvorak and Dr. Kate Phelps, Lecturer in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at UW-Madison for a body mapping workshop in two sessions. Body mapping is an arts-based method used for a …
Dylan Witte – LGBTQ+ Studies Student Spotlight
Dylan is a junior majoring in Life Sciences Communication and pursuing the LGBTQ+ Studies certificate alongside certificates in Classical Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies. Dylan is also the mastermind behind the Department of Integrative …
Lariisa Stewart – GWS and LGBTQ+ Studies Student Spotlight
Lariisa Stewart is a senior graduating in August 2020 with a GWS major and a LGBTQ+ Studies certificate. Read Lariisa’s reflections on transferring to UW-Madison, choosing the major, writing a senior thesis, and preparing for …
Article by GWS Professor Janet Shibley Hyde Receives 2019 George A. Miller Award
The following article by Janet Shibley Hyde, PhD, Rebecca S. Bigler, PhD, Daphna Joel, PhD, Charlotte Chucky Tate, PhD, and Sari M. van Anders, PhD has been awarded the 2019 George A. Miller Award for …
Chair of GWS Weighs in on the Newly Elected Local School Board
Chair of Gender & Women’s Studies, Professor Aili Tripp, weighs in on how the impact of the newly elected, all female-identified Madison Metropolitan School Board, one that also includes several women of color, may have …
Lowbrow Culture and Guilty Pleasures? The Performance and Harm of Academic Elitism
Professor Sami Schalk, in Inside Higher Ed, questions the arbitrariness and biases of scholarly standards for so-called lowbrow subjects and activities.