Professor Chris Barcelos named as inaugural Morgridge Fellow

Congratulations to Professor Chris Barcelos for being selected into the first cohort of Morgridge Fellows. This year-long learning community is designed to further institutionalize and support community-engaged scholarship across campus. Read more…

“Sugar, Shame, and Love: Reimagining Diabetic Latinidades”

Julie Avril Minich, Assistant Professor of English, University of Texas at Austin September 17 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm This talk engages with disability theory in order to examine engagements with diabetes in works by contemporary Latinx writers and artists. Diabetic Latinx art responds to an urgent health crisis affecting Latinx communities throughout the …

Q&A with Keisha Lindsay, author of “In a Classroom of Their Own: The Intersection of Race and Feminist Politics in All Black Male Schools”

Professor Keisha Lindsay, associate professor of Gender & Women’s Studies and Political Science, recently published a groundbreaking new text, “In A Classroom of Their Own: The Intersection of Race and Feminist Politics in All Black Male Schools.”  Lindsay explores the complicated politics and dilemmas of all-black male schools and how to create equitable education for …

Register for the Wisconsin Symposium on Feminist Biology

Wisconsin Symposium on Feminist Biology Friday, October 5, 2018, University of Wisconsin Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street, Madison The Center for Research on Gender and Women at the University of Wisconsin–Madison is pleased to announce the 3rd Biennial Wisconsin Symposium on Feminist Biology to deliberately examine creating new research, new topics, new methods, new theories …

Assistant Professor of Chican@ and Latin@ Studies – Cluster Hire

The Chican@ and Latin@ Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor whose scholarship and teaching focus on Chicanxs and Latinxs, beginning August 2019.  This position is part of the Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Studies Cohort, which was developed in order to advance innovative approaches to the study of …

Three faculty openings in Reproductive Equity – Cluster Hire

The University of Wisconsin–Madison is seeking to hire three tenure-track or tenured faculty members in the area of reproductive equity. One position will be in health services research and will have a likely tenure home in Obstetrics and Gynecology or Population Health Sciences [position vacancy listing (PVL) #94599]. One position will be in Public Policy and Reproductive Health …

Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies and Gender & Women’s Studies – Cluster Hire

The University of Wisconsin Madison is seeking to hire a faculty member to conduct research and teach courses in gender/women’s studies as it relates to the contemporary Middle East and North Africa, with a preference for the Arab Middle East. Preference will be given to applicants with area expertise who conduct research using Middle East …

Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies and Gender & Women’s Studies – Cohort Hire

The University of Wisconsin – Madison is seeking to hire a faculty member to conduct research and teach courses in Asian American Studies and Gender and Women’s Studies. We welcome candidates in any discipline and time period within Asian American Studies whose work emphasizes gender and/or sexuality, broadly defined. Candidates with a particular interest in …

GRACE MORRISON AND RENEE KRAMER WIN HOBBINS AWARD

GWS Masters student Grace Morrison was chosen for the Deborah Hobbins Award for 2017, and Renee Kramer, a doctoral student in Population Health, is the 2018 winner.  The Hobbins Award, named for long-time advocate for reproductive justice Deborah Hobbins, is given to a graduate student for exceptional work in reproductive health, rights, and justice. Grace’s …

Culture, Contraception, and Colorblindess: Youth Sexual Health Promotion as a Gendered Racial Project