The Department of Gender & Women’s Studies (GWS) is looking for graduate students interested in TAing undergraduate courses for the Spring 2026 semester. Applications for these 50% Teaching Assistant positions are open to both incoming and continuing students. Teaching experience and familiarity with LGBTQ+ Studies and/or Gender and Women’s Studies is preferred.
GWS is recruiting TAs for the following courses:
- Gen&WS 101: Gender, Women & Cultural Representation: A humanities-oriented analysis of cultural representations of women and men within the social and historical contexts of race, class, gender and sexuality; engages with a range of traditions and modes of representation including literature, mass media and popular culture.
- Gen&WS 103: Gender, Women, Bodies, and Health: Examines both physiological and social processes relating to gender and health across the lifespan among cisgender, transgender, and non-binary individuals. Examples of topics include hormonal processes, reproductive anatomy & physiology, sexuality, sexual pleasure, chronic illness, depression, and sexual violence. A primary course objective is for students to connect information about their bodies and personal health to larger social and political contexts. In particular, considers how health and health disparities are shaped by multiple kind of social inequalities, particularly inequalities based on gender.
To apply for a teaching assistant position in GWS, please complete this form and upload a PDF of your CV and contact information for references before 9am on Friday, October 31st, 2025. Please contact the GWS Department Administrator via email at administrator@gws.wisc.edu for additional information.
Important note: If you will be new to campus in fall and don’t have a netID yet, you will need to activate your netID to log-in to the form. Follow these instructions.