Vilas Trust Speaker Named

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 …

Xin Huang Research Assistance

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 …

Carolyn Eichner Research Assistance

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 …

Community Crisis: Affordable Housing

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 …

Safe Space Dialogue

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 …

Krista Grensavitch’s Anti-Racist Work Continues

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 …

Carolyn Eichner Recognized

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 …

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.