Congratulations to Katie Klein, Women’s & Gender Studies’ MA student, who is one of the recipients of the 2020-21 UWM Graduate Student Excellence Fellowship (GSEF) awards. The Graduate Student Excellence Fund was established in 2015 as a philanthropic effort to … Continue Reading »
Congratulations to WGS Master’s Student, Sarah Cooke, who was awarded the Eldon Murray Legacy Award at Lavender Graduation on May 6th. They are being recognized for taking initiative toward a vision of creating positive change, promoting awareness, and building community … Continue Reading »
Each year, the UW System Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium (WGSC) hosts an annual conference in Madison that brings together all of the scholarship, field formation, and institution building that takes place in Women’s & Gender Studies from all of the system’s … Continue Reading »
Congratulations to UWM Women’s & Gender Studies graduate student Lizzie Hjelle, who will be presenting at the 14th Annual Luxembourg American Cultural Society’s Cultural Conference on Friday, August 7, 2020. Celebrating the 100th Anniversary in the United States and the … Continue Reading »
The deadline for applications for the Florence L. Healy Scholarship is fast approaching. Please be sure you complete your portal profile and get the rest of your application in on or before Thursday, April 30, 2020. Two awards will be … Continue Reading »
UWM Women’s & Gender Studies Research Paper & Project Contest Winners and Casey O’Brien Outstanding Activist Awardees On behalf of the Women’s & Gender Studies Program, we would like to extend our Congratulations to this year’s winners of our annual … Continue Reading »
The application process is now open for the Florence L. Healy Scholarship. Qualified applicants will have: taken at least one Women’s & Gender Studies course research interests in Women’s & Gender Studies a minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA demonstrated financial need This scholarship … Continue Reading »
The application process is now open for the Casey O’Brien Outstanding Activist Award. Qualified applicants will have demonstrated involvement in student activism (on or off-campus) and leadership within the areas of women’s issues, gender and sexual equality, and social or … Continue Reading »
As you may know, campus life at UWM as well as Universities across the country will be different over the next few weeks. UWM will be on an extended spring break from March 15-29, 2020. Precautions are being taken to … Continue Reading »
Carolyn Eichner’s book, Franchir les barricades: Les femmes dans la Commune de Paris, was published today by Editions de la Sorbonne (Paris). This is the French translation of Eichner’s, Surmounting the Barricades: Women in the Paris Commune (Indiana University Press).… Continue Reading »