Gender & Women's Studies
With the Wisconsin state capitol in the background, pedestrians and students walk along Library Mall and the State Street Mall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison after sunset on Dec. 4, 2019. (Photo by Bryce Richter /UW-Madison)

The Department of Gender and Women's Studies welcomes prospective students for a spring visit to Madison.

PhD Open House Visit Days

Schedule

Sunday, March 16

6:30 pm | Dinner with prospective students, members of the Graduate Committee, the Department Chair, and GWS PhD students at Sardine

Campus maps and virtual tours

Monday, March 17

8:45 to 9:15 am | Breakfast in 3401 Sterling Hall

9:15 to 10:45 am | Sterling Hall welcome with Dr. Judy Houck, Department Chair, Professor Keisha Lindsay, Director of Graduate Studies, and Duachi Yang, Graduate Program Manager, 3401 Sterling Hall

11 to 11:50 am | Attend Gen&WS 103: Gender, Women, Bodies, and Health, B10 Ingraham Hall

12 to 12:45 pm | Lunch in 3401 Sterling Hall

12:45 to 1:15 pm | Individual meeting with faculty (see your schedule)

1:30 to 2:15 pm | Bus 80 Tour of Campus

2:30 to 3:30 pm | Attend GWS 800: Research Methods in GWS, 579 Van Hise Hall

5:30 to 7:30 pm | Dinner at the Great Dane with faculty, staff, and current graduate students

8 pm | Leopold’s for coffee/tea/drinks

Program information

Tuesday, March 18

8 to 8:45 am | Breakfast at Union South, 1308 W. Dayton St.

9 to 10 am | Tenant Resource Center

10:30 to 11:30 am | Visit the Office of the Gender and Women’s Studies Librarian and meet Librarian Karla Strand

12 to 1 pm | Lunch and conversation about curriculum, funding, Q and A in 3401 Sterling

Campus Resources

Seminar Readings

Optional course readings to review before visiting Gen&WS 800

You don’t have to read all, or any, of these. We just wanted you to know what students will be discussing when you visit class next week. Here is the Box link to the readings. 

Feminist thinking around qualitative methods

  • Sangster, J. (1994). Telling our stories: feminist debates and the use of oral history. Women’s History Review, 3(1), 5-28.
  • DeVault, M. L. (1990). Talking and listening from women’s standpoint: Feminist strategies for interviewing and analysis. Social problems, 37(1), 96-116.
  • Wilkinson, S. (1998). Focus groups in feminist research: Power, interaction, and the co-construction of meaning. In Women’s studies international forum (Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 111-125). Pergamon.

Guest Speaker: Dr. Kate Phelps

Reading in preparation for guest

  • Phelps, K. 2025. Chapter 3: She has the juice. Digital Girlhoods.