Thursday, February 14, 2024 is the deadline for consideration for the WGS Paper and Project Contest, the Casey O’Brien Activist Award, and the Florence Healy Award – get your applications in ASAP!… Continue Reading »
Celebrating 50 Years of WGS!
This is What Women’s & Gender Studies Looks Like: Celebrating 50 Years of WGS! On Tuesday, April 30, 2024, Women’s & Gender Studies will celebrate our 50th anniversary at UW-Milwaukee with an alumni panel and reception. Mark your calendars and … Continue Reading »
Congratulations to Steinbeck Fellow Xueyou Wang!
Congratulations to Xueyou Wang, (@shayo.shay22) a recent WGS MA graduate at UWM, for being selected as one of the Steinbeck Fellows at SAN JOSÉ STATE UNIVERSITY for 2023-2024! Xueyou Wang’s work focuses on immigrant women’s experiences and transnational, transcultural stories. … Continue Reading »
Congratulations to all WGS Contest Winners!
UWM Women’s & Gender Studies 2023 Research Paper & Project Contest Winners and Casey O’Brien Outstanding Activist Awardee and Florence L. Healy Scholarship On behalf of Women’s & Gender Studies Program, Anna Mansson McGinty, WGS Chair, would like to extend congratulations … Continue Reading »
The Paris Commune: A Brief History Review Essay
The Nation magazine has published a review essay of Carolyn Eichner’s book The Paris Commune: A Brief History. https://www.thenation.com/article/world/paris-commune/… Continue Reading »
Interns Wanted!
Women’s & Gender Studies / Women’s Resource Center Internship Opportunities Are you in need of a feminist internship? Are you looking to work on a feminist team? Do you want to be a feminist leader on campus? LOOK NO FURTHER! … Continue Reading »
Dean’s List Announced
Women’s & Gender Studies is thrilled to congratulate our students who made the Dean’s List for the Spring, 2022 semester, including Andrew Borchardt Abagail Houck Isabella Matheson Sarah O’Brien Brittany Powell Alyssandra Scaffidi Great job!… Continue Reading »
Florence L. Healy Scholarship Winners Named
Dr. Matthew Healy and Kimberly Coleman Healy generously fund the Florence L. Healy Scholarship, which is open to all Women’s & Gender Studies’ students with a research interest in the area. This year we were thankful to have a boon … Continue Reading »
Carolyn Eichner Named Camargo Fellow
Associate Professor Carolyn Eichner has been named a Camargo Foundation Fellow for the Spring of 2023, for her project The Name: Legitimacy, Identity, and Gendered Citizenship. The Camargo Foundation Fellowship is an 11-week residential fellowship in Cassis, on France’s Mediterranean coast. “[t]he … Continue Reading »
Healy Scholarship Awards Now Open
Applications are now being accepted for the Florence L. Healy Scholarship (https://uwm.edu/womens-gender-studies/scholarships/). This scholarship is for the 2022-23 school year; students graduating in May or August 2022 are not eligible. Qualified students will meet these criteria: Minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA … Continue Reading »