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 »
Women’s & Gender Studies is honored to announce Dean Spade as this year’s Feminist Lecture Series Speaker. Dean Spade (he/him) is a Professor at Seattle University School of Law. Dean has been working in movements for queer and trans liberation … Continue Reading »
Congratulations to WGS Faculty Carolyn Eichner! Her new book, The Paris Commune: A Brief History (Rutgers University Press), has just come out! &nbs… Continue Reading »
In celebration of Women’s History Month, Women’s & Gender Studies hosts the annual UWM Student Research Paper & Project Contest. Undergraduate or graduate research papers or projects having to do with women, gender, sexuality, feminism or feminist thinking which were … Continue Reading »
The application process is now open for the Casey O’Brien Outstanding Activist Award. The award is given in recognition of student activism (on or off-campus) and leadership within the areas of women’s issues, gender and sexual equality, and social or racial … Continue Reading »
Women’s & Gender Studies‘ award winning senior lecturer, Krista Grensavitch, has been offered and has accepted a grant funded position with the American Historical Association (AHA), a position which will impact the way students learn about history in the classroom … Continue Reading »
Women’s & Gender Studies is accepting Undergraduate and Graduate Research papers or projects on women, gender, sexuality, feminism or feminist thinking which were completed for UWinteriM, Spring, Summer or Fall 2021 courses at UWM for consideration for the annual Paper … Continue Reading »
Please join the first Asia: In Conversation event for Spring 2022: “Dialogues on Engaging Muslim Communities in Research,” with Janan Najeeb of Milwaukee Muslim Women’s Coalition, Chair of Women’s and Gender Studies Anna Mansson McGinty, and WGS affiliates Caroline Seymour-Jorn … Continue Reading »