WGS Co-Sponsorship: Escaping Afghanistan – One Woman’s Story

Escaping Afghanistan – One Woman’s Story WGS is pleased to be co-sponsoring A Conversation with Maryam Durani and Kathleen Dunn Escaping Afghanistan – One Woman’s Story.  Thursday, May 5th at 3:30pm at the AGSL. Please make sure to register in advance …

Healy Scholarship Awards Now Open

Applications are now being accepted for the Florence L. Healy Scholarship (https://uwm.edu/womens-gender-studies/scholarships/). This scholarship is for the 2022-23 school year; students graduating in May or August 2022 are not eligible. Qualified students will meet these criteria: Minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA …

Lunch & Learn Series Continues

The Women’s & Gender Studies’ Lunch and Learn series continues for the spring semester.  Check out what’s on tap: Thursday, February 17, 2022 at 12:00 pm “Mapping Reproductive (In)Justice: Curatorial Reflections in Exhibiting Milwaukee as a Hostile Reproductive Terrain” Presented …

Congratulations to WGS Winners!

UWM Women’s & Gender Studies Research Paper & Project Contest Winners and Casey O’Brien Outstanding Activist Awardee On behalf of Women’s & Gender Studies Program, Anna Mansson McGinty, WGS Chair, would like to extend congratulations to this year’s winners of the annual …

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.