Krista Grensavitch, Outstanding Teaching Award 2020

Warm congratulations to Krista Grensavitch for receiving the UWM 2020 Academic Staff Outstanding Teaching Award! Dr. Grensavitch completed her MA in Women’s and Gender Studies in 2014 and received her Ph.D. in History at UWM in 2019. Her Ph.D. thesis, titled …

Congratulations to Lisa Hager!

Lisa Hager (English and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at UWM-Waukesha) is the recipient of the Surridge Prize for best essay in the Victorian Review. Her essay, “A Case for a Trans Studies Turn in Victorian Studies: ‘Female Husbands’ of the Nineteenth Century,” …

Tasha Berillo Inspires Us All

Women’s & Gender Studies student Tasha Berillo has chosen show her support and advocacy for black lives through art and educating individuals around her. Through making this piece, she reflected on a Hannah-Jones’s article that was read in her coursework.  …

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.