Elizabeth Randolph, a white woman in her late 50s, manages a sexual and reproductive health clinic in “Millerston,” a small, former manufacturing city in the US northeast that is known for its high rates of teen pregnancy among Puerto Rican youth. “Not to sound racist at all,” she told me, “but teen…
Congratulations to Araceli Alonso for being the 2018 recipient of the Chancellor’s Hilldale Award for Excellence in Teaching! A well deserved honor for a life changing instructor.
We are very pleased to announce a Call for Papers for an upcoming e-book entitled: The Time is Now. Feminist Leadership in a New Era. The book will be published digitally by the Global Network of UNESCO Chairs on Gender in October 2018.
Thank you for the great turnout for last week’s WISCAPE talk with Z Nicolazzo, the author of “Trans* in College,” cosponsored by the Trans Research Lab and Department of Gender and Women’s Studies! Z has kindly shared a link to her presentation from the talk and you can also view the video. As a bonus, here’s a …
Leslie Bow clicks through movie and television clips on her computer: scenes from recent sci-fi thrillers, including Cloud Atlas, Ex Machina, Battlestar Galactica and the hit British miniseries Humans. Each features a synthetic human — benevolent or sinister, depending on the plotline — designed to look like a young, attractive Asian woman. Then Bow, a …
Kathryn Moeller is an assistant professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies. In her new role with the journal, she will be leading the review of articles related to education in a call for papers on “Indigenous Feminist Politics in Settler Contexts.”
Congratulations to Ann Fink on winning two recent awards! The first of which is a poster award at the International Neuroethics Society meeting in November for her work with comics and neuroscience pedagogy: Fink, AE. Teaching the Neurobiology of Stress and Traumatic Memory in the Context of Social Power and Identity. Abstract presented at the …
Congratulations to Jenny Higgins and her collaborators for winning a two-year planning grant from an anonymous donor to support their initiative, “Supporting Reproductive, Infant, and Family Health in Wisconsin”! The $575K grant will allow them to develop a campus-wide initiative focusing on reproductive health research, healthcare access and delivery, policy evaluation, and communication to address …
Professor Annie Menzel is excited to be joining the Department of Gender & Women’s Studies this fall semester. Professor Menzel is teaching Childbirth in the U.S. again for the first time in many semesters. In the spring, Professor Menzel will be teaching the gender and health course, The Science and Politics of Reproductive Health and …
Professor Janet Sibley Hyde has been selected for the highly prestigious James McKeen Cattell Award by the Association for Psychological Science.