Take Back the Night!

This April, the WRC and PASA have come together to continue the tradition of UWM’s annual Take Back the Night. Passionate activists and victim/survivors from our campus community come together to stand against sexual violence and end the silence surrounding …

WGS Vilas Trust Lecture

Women’s & Gender Studies is proud to announce Jennifer Nash, Jean Fox O’Barr Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Duke University, and author of Black Feminism Reimagined After Intersectionality (2018), Gender Love (2017), and The Black Body in …

Krista Grensavitch Recognized

Congratulations to Krista Grensavitch, Ph.D., and Women’s & Gender Studies’ Lecturer!  She and co-investigator, Rachel Buff, are recipients of the Advancing Research and Creativity (ARC) Award for their work, Documenting Wisconsin’s Black Lives Matter Demonstrations. With this honor, Krista joins …

Carolyn Eichner Named Finalist

Congratulations to Women’s & Gender Studies’ own Associate Professor Carolyn Eichner! The French translation of her book on women in the Paris Commune, Franchir les barricades: Les femmes dans la Commune de Paris (Editions de la Sorbonne, 2020), is a …

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.