Peter Zook graduated from UW–Madison in 2010 with majors in Sociology, Journalism & Mass Communications; and Certificates in LGBT Studies and African Studies. He is now a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Philadelphia, PA. How does LGBTQ+ Studies matter in the day-to-day of your professional life? As a queer therapist who works mostly with queer …
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 …
Julia is a junior majoring in Gender and Women’s Studies and Health Promotion and Health Equity. In the last year, Julia worked with a team of physicians, health care and organization development experts to create and implement a COVID-19 hospital safety strategy. The mitigation approach they developed involved novel safety practices put in place in …
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!
Ed Graves graduated from UW–Madison in 2006 with majors in Agricultural Science and Rural Sociology (now Community and Environmental Sociology) and an LGBTQ+ Studies certificate. In 2009, Ed completed a MLIS in Information Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s School of Information Studies. – How do GWS and/or LGBTQ+ Studies matter in the day-to-day of …
Assistant Professor Kelly Marie Ward, whose position began in Fall 2020, is our February Faculty Focus. She is currently an Anna Julia Cooper Postdoctoral Fellow, and they will begin teaching courses in Gender and Women’s Studies and Sociology in Fall 2021. Read more about Dr. Ward below. Name: Kelly Marie Ward Hometown: Seattle, WA Educational/professional …
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!
Assistant Professor LiLi Johnson, whose position began in Fall 2019, is our January Faculty Focus. In Fall 2020, she began teaching courses in Gender and Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies. Her research focuses on Asian American racial formation and multiculturalism, family and kinship, and cultural studies of science. Read more about Professor Johnson below. …
The UW–Madison Ethics of Care Workshop Spring Conference will take place virtually on May 13 and 14, 2021. Abstract submissions were open through February 18, 2021. Please see the Call for Abstracts and the Ethics of Care website for more details. The conference theme is “Relationships of Care Across and After Worlds,” and it will …
Professor Sami Schalk has received a Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award for Inclusive Excellence, which “celebrates exemplary achievements in teaching that honor the university’s value of diversity and inclusion as the path to excellence.” “Her full courses with extensive waitlists make clear that in the short time she has worked at UW, Dr. Schalk has made …