Congratulations to Xueyou Wang, (@shayo.shay22) a recent WGS MA graduate at UWM, for being selected as one of the Steinbeck Fellows at SAN JOSÉ STATE UNIVERSITY for 2023-2024! Xueyou Wang’s work focuses on immigrant women’s experiences and transnational, transcultural stories. … Continue Reading »
UWM Women’s & Gender Studies 2023 Research Paper & Project Contest Winners and Casey O’Brien Outstanding Activist Awardee and Florence L. Healy Scholarship On behalf of Women’s & Gender Studies Program, Anna Mansson McGinty, WGS Chair, would like to extend congratulations … Continue Reading »
The Nation magazine has published a review essay of Carolyn Eichner’s book The Paris Commune: A Brief History. https://www.thenation.com/article/world/paris-commune/… Continue Reading »
Women’s & Gender Studies / Women’s Resource Center Internship Opportunities Are you in need of a feminist internship? Are you looking to work on a feminist team? Do you want to be a feminist leader on campus? LOOK NO FURTHER! … Continue Reading »
Women’s & Gender Studies is thrilled to congratulate our students who made the Dean’s List for the Spring, 2022 semester, including Andrew Borchardt Abagail Houck Isabella Matheson Sarah O’Brien Brittany Powell Alyssandra Scaffidi Great job!… Continue Reading »
Dr. Matthew Healy and Kimberly Coleman Healy generously fund the Florence L. Healy Scholarship, which is open to all Women’s & Gender Studies’ students with a research interest in the area. This year we were thankful to have a boon … Continue Reading »
Associate Professor Carolyn Eichner has been named a Camargo Foundation Fellow for the Spring of 2023, for her project The Name: Legitimacy, Identity, and Gendered Citizenship. The Camargo Foundation Fellowship is an 11-week residential fellowship in Cassis, on France’s Mediterranean coast. “[t]he … Continue Reading »
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 … Continue Reading »
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 … Continue Reading »
Associate Professor Carolyn Eichner has been awarded a 2022-23 Fulbright Research Fellowship to France (Paris) for her book project The Name: Legitimacy, Identity, and Gendered Citizenship, which analyzes the relationships between personal names, identity, resistance, and state power. Focusing primarily … Continue Reading »