Florence L. Healy Scholarship

The application process is now open for the Florence L. Healy Scholarship. Qualified applicants will have: taken at least one Women’s & Gender Studies course research interests in Women’s & Gender Studies a minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA demonstrated financial need This scholarship …

Casey O’Brien Outstanding Activist Award

The application process is now open for the Casey O’Brien Outstanding Activist Award. Qualified applicants will have demonstrated involvement in student activism (on or off-campus) and leadership within the areas of women’s issues, gender and sexual equality, and social or …

Event Cancellations

As you may know, campus life at UWM as well as Universities across the country will be different over the next few weeks.  UWM will be on an extended spring break from March 15-29, 2020. Precautions are being taken to …

Brown Bag Series Presentation, April 1, 2020 – CANCELLED

This event has been CANCELLED due to COVID-19 precautions. Women’s & Gender Studies’ Brown Bag Series of presentations continues on April 1, 2020.  These sessions are held one Wednesday each month at 12:30 pm in Curtin Hall 535B. Our presenter …

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.