GWS is hiring two lecturers to teach Gen&WS 103: Gender, Women, Bodies, and Health and Gen&WS 533: Special Topics in Women and Health. Please note the two positions are combined into one PVL; the department will hire for each position separately or combined, with the right candidate. The application deadline is October 16, 2019. See …
On behalf of the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, the Center for Research on Gender & Women (CRGW) administers 4 scholarships with a November 1, 2019 deadline. Information about each one is listed below. For further information, please contact Elizabeth Morris, the CRGW administrator. Deborah A. Hobbins Graduate Student Award in Reproductive Health, Rights, …
Andrew Briceno is a senior graduating in spring 2020 with majors in Gender and Women’s Studies, Political Science, and Sociology, and certificates in African Studies, Chicanx and Latinx Studies, and LGBTQ+ Studies. Find Andrew’s reflections on GWS and LGBTQ+ Studies below. Why did you choose GWS and LGBTQ+ Studies? After completing my first year at …
The work of GWS Chair and Professor Aili Mari Tripp has been featured in a Politico article, “These 5 Places Tried Bold Political Experiments. Did They Work?” Author Jill Filipovic cited Tripp’s work in the “Rwanda: Gender Quotas” section, describing Tripp’s research about women gaining “political legitimacy and power.” See full quote below. Aili Mari …
We are excited to share a short video (<2 min), by UW–Madison student and course participant Nia Cayenne, about the Summer 2019 Morocco-Spain Course. The video is titled “UW Global Health and Human Rights Training in Spain and Morocco to Combat Sex-Trafficking.” Taught by Dr. Araceli Alonso and Esperanza Jorge, this undergraduate summer course uses …
The 6th Annual Feminist Faculty Book Party will take place on Fri, Oct 4 from 6-8pm at A Room of One’s Own Bookstore. This event brings together faculty authors from UW–Madison and other local colleges who have published books in the current academic year. This year, we convene to celebrate the recently released work of: …
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 …
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 an Outstanding Recent Article on General Psychology from Division 1, Society for General Psychology. Hyde, J. S., Bigler, R., Joel, …
GWS Department Chair Professor Aili Mari Tripp’s new book came out today! In Seeking Legitimacy: Why Arab Autocracies Adopt Women’s Rights, Professor Tripp explains why autocratic leaders in Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria embraced more extensive legal reforms of women’s rights than their Middle Eastern counterparts. The study challenges existing accounts that rely primarily on religiosity …