UWM’s Women’s & Gender Studies is delighted to welcome Dr. Silvia Federici, professor emerita and Teaching Fellow at Hofstra University, as the Vilas Trust Speaker. Silvia Federici is a feminist scholar, teacher, and activist. She was one of the founders … Continue Reading »
Xin Huang is honored to receive a Research Assistance Fund grant form UWM to support a book manuscript tā is working on entitled Picturing Life: Gender and Photo-based Life Narrative. This book analyzes how lives, history, and gender are constructed … Continue Reading »
Carolyn Eichner is pleased to have received a Research Assistance Fund grant to cover the cost of professionally indexing her forthcoming book, Feminism’s Empire (Cornell University Press, June 2022). Feminism’s Empire examines the first late 19th-century French feminists to engage … Continue Reading »
IGNITE National and UWM’s Women’s & Gender Studies Department are happy to host “Community Crisis: Affordable Housing”, an event to create dialogue about affordable housing and how it impacts everyone. Today, many community members are facing housing instability. Affordable housing … Continue Reading »
The Women’s Resource Center, Women’s & Gender Studies, and the Black Student Cultural Center are hosting a Safe Space Dialogue to discuss events in Kenosha surrounding the Kyle Rittenhouse trial that impact us all. This is a great opportunity to … Continue Reading »
Krista Grensavitch, Senior Lecturer for Women’s & Gender Studies, contributed to “Naming is Power: Citation Practices in SoTL” in Teaching & Learning Inquiry. This article, an example of collaborative research within the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) explores the … Continue Reading »
Women’s & Gender Studies’ Senior Lecturer, Krista Grensavitch, is a Curator/Contributor for the Hostile Terrains exhibit currently on view at the Emile H. Mathis Gallery at UW-Milwaukee. Hostile Terrains at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee examines the intersection of space, policy … Continue Reading »
Congratulations to WGS Associate Professor Carolyn Eichner, who was awarded a UWM Office of Research/Foundation Research Award during the Fall, 2021 semester. Carolyn Eichner, Department of History and Women’s & Gender Studies, is an internationally recognized scholar of French feminist … Continue Reading »