Congratulations WGS Graduates!!

As our WGS graduates were unable to attend a traditional ceremony this year, a few people wanted to wish them well. Please enjoy this 2020 Graduation Celebration.

Katie Klein Recognized

Congratulations to Katie Klein, Women’s & Gender Studies’ MA student, who is one of the recipients of the 2020-21 UWM Graduate Student Excellence Fellowship (GSEF) awards. The Graduate Student Excellence Fund was established in 2015 as a philanthropic effort to …

Sarah Cooke Recognized

Congratulations to WGS Master’s Student, Sarah Cooke, who was awarded the Eldon Murray Legacy Award at Lavender Graduation on May 6th.  They are being recognized for taking initiative toward a vision of creating positive change, promoting awareness, and building community …

Avery DeBoer Project Recognized

Each year, the UW System Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium (WGSC) hosts an annual conference in Madison that brings together all of the scholarship, field formation, and institution building that takes place in Women’s & Gender Studies from all of the system’s …

Lizzie Hjelle Presents…

Congratulations to UWM Women’s & Gender Studies graduate student Lizzie Hjelle, who will be presenting at the 14th Annual Luxembourg American Cultural Society’s Cultural Conference on Friday, August 7, 2020.  Celebrating the 100th Anniversary in the United States and the …

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.