Professor Sami Schalk was featured in Madison Magazine’s “Faces of Pride” piece with 10 other Madisonians, as part of LGBTQ+ Pride Month. Professor Schalk shares ways in which her local queer community showed up for her this past year, particularly during #BlackLivesMatter activism and during the isolation of the pandemic. Read the full piece here.
GWS second-year MA student Rodlyn-mae Banting published a new article in Bitch Media, “License to Feel: ‘SOUR’ Highlights the Unique Wisdom of Teen Girls.” “My instinct to recoil at Rodrigo’s admission that she’s not over her ex-boyfriend, the object of ‘driver’s license,’ is a learned response to teen girlhood; it is a reflection of how …
This spring, the GWS internship course went online. Students did fantastic work for Madison-based organizations like End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin, Legal Action of Wisconsin, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Women’s Network, and the Office of the Gender and Women’s Studies Librarian. Madelyn Adler, an intern with the Wisconsin Women’s Network, developed a compelling visualization …
Thank you to all who contributed to the Department of Gender & Women’s Day of the Badger success! We are humbled and honored that so many of you chose to support Gender & Women’s Studies this year. Some of the highlights of this online day of giving campaign included: We more than met our matching …
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!
Associate Professor Kate Walsh is our April Faculty Focus. Read more about Dr. Walsh below. Professor Walsh, who began her appointment in Fall 2020, holds an appointment in GWS and Psychology, and she is the lead of the Sexual Violence Research Initiative. Hometown: Benton, Maine Educational/professional background: I earned my PhD in Clinical Psychology from …
We mourn with the Asian American and Asian communities the murder of eight people, six of them women of Asian heritage, in Georgia on March 16. While there is still much unknown about these killings, it is clear they take place in a larger context of increased anti-Asian violence in the United States over the …
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 …
We are excited to announce the new podcast, Collegeland, hosted by GWS faculty affiliate and Community and Environmental Sociology Professor Nan Enstad and UW–Madison graduate Lisa Levenstein. 23 million people work and study at U.S. colleges and universities. Collegeland takes you on campus for the real stories. Episodes include topics such as food insecurity on …