A fond farewell to Maria Medina-Smith

After twenty years with Women’s and Gender Studies (previously the Center for Women’s Studies) at UWM, Maria Medina-Smith retired from her role as office manager and administrative assistant. Her last day in our front office was Wednesday, May 22. We …

Carolyn Eichner is the recipient of a 2019 RACAS award

Prof. Carolyn Eichner (Women’s and Gender Studies and History) received a 2019 Research and Creative Actives Support (RACAS) award from the UWM Graduate School for her project “The Mark of Identity: Metropolitan Jews, Liberated Afro-Caribbeans, Algerian Muslims, and the Surname.” …

Kristin Pitt named as CLACS Faculty Fellow

Congratulations to Prof. Kristin Pitt (Women’s & Gender Studies and Comparative Literature), who has been named a 2019-2020 CLACS Faculty Fellow by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Prof. Pitt will be working on her research project, “Migration, Gender, and …

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.