Krista Grensavitch’s Wins New, Influential Position

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 …

Annual Paper and Project Contest

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 …

Spring 2022 Asia in Conversation Series

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 …

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 …

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 …