July 2015

Talk by Marisa Fuentes of Rutgers University

Friday, November 13 – Africology will host a talk by Marisa Fuentes of Rutgers University’s History and Women’s & Gender Studies departments. Co-sponsored by WGS.

Visiting Poet Carmen Giménez Smith

October 15 & 16 – The English Department’s Creative Writing Program welcomes Visiting Poet Carmen Gimenez Smith. Co-sponsored by WGS.

WGS MA Student Orientation

August 25, 2015 – Mark your calendars for our Women’s & Gender Studies MA Student Orientation at 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. in the WGS conference room, NWQ-B 7578.

Xin Huang awarded Fall Fellowship

Assistant Professor Xin Huang has been awarded the UW-System Fellowship at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at UW Madison, Fall 2015.

WGS Lecturer Casey O’Brien

Casey O’Brien was a participant in the Promoting Pedagogical Innovation grant through the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning and funded by the UW System Office for Professional and Instructional Development, 2015.

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.