• Congrats to Carolyn Eichner!
    Carolyn Eichner has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Grant for Jan 1 – Aug 31, 2025, in support of her research and writing a biography of 19th-century anarchist Louise Michel, orator, author, ethnographer, teacher, and leader in the Paris Commune. Eichner’s proposal was among the 9% funded of the 283 proposals submitted this cycle. …
  • Women’s and Gender Studies at Half a Century: Imagining the Future and Meeting the Challenges
    As part of our year-long 50th anniversary celebration, UWM’s Women’s & Gender Studies department participated in the 2024 Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium Conference in Madison, Wisconsin. We offer an undergraduate major and minor, a stand-alone MA and two coordinated MA degrees with library science and social work, and an interdisciplinary graduate certificate. For this …
  • Scholarship Submission Deadline
    Thursday, February 14, 2024 is the deadline for consideration for the WGS Paper and Project Contest, the Casey O’Brien Activist Award, and the Florence Healy Award – get your applications in ASAP!
  • Celebrating 50 Years of WGS!
    This is What Women’s & Gender Studies Looks Like: Celebrating 50 Years of WGS! On Tuesday, April 30, 2024, Women’s & Gender Studies will celebrate our 50th anniversary at UW-Milwaukee with an alumni panel and reception. Mark your calendars and watch this space for details!
  • Save The Date!
    This is What Women’s & Gender Studies Looks Like: Celebrating 50 Years of WGS!Tuesday, April 30, 2024Women’s & Gender Studies will celebrate our 50th anniversary at UW-Milwaukee with an alumni panel and reception.  Mark your calendars and watch this space for details! Vilas Lecture Series Speaker Kavita PanjabiFriday, April 05, 2024Kavita Panjabi continues the Vilas Lecture …
  • Congratulations to Steinbeck Fellow Xueyou Wang!
    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. She is particularly interested in the intersection between Asian diaspora and Latin American cultures. For …
  • Meet Jane Ward!
    Bagel Time with Jane Ward Women's & Gender Studies is offering the opportunity for Graduate Students to get some time with this spring’s Feminist Lecture Series Speaker Jane Ward, Professor of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Barbara, in advance of her talk being held on Friday, May 05, 2023 at 3:00 pm. Bagel refreshments will …
  • WGS Feminist Lecture Speaker: Jane Ward
    Women's & Gender Studies Feminist Lecture Series Presents The Tragedy of Heterosexuality in Global Context A Lecture by Jane Ward Professor of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Barbara In The Tragedy of Heterosexuality, Jane Ward critiques one of the basic premises of the mainstream LGBT rights movement—that heterosexuality is easier than queerness—by asking for whom, …
  • Congratulations to all WGS Contest Winners!
    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 to this year's winners of the annual UWM Women's & Gender Studies Student Research Paper …
  • WGS Lunch & Learn Series Returns for Spring, 2023
      Women's & Gender Studies Lunch & Learn series returns for Spring, 2023.   On Thursday, March 30, 2023 we kick off with a presentation of "Women's Roles in Language Revitalization" by Margaret Noodin, Professor of English and Associate Dean, Humanities and Cailín Nic an tSionnaigh, Fulbright FLTA & Irish Language Instructor, Center for Celtic …
  • 26th Annual Festival of Films in French
    The 26th Annual Festival of Films in French runs from Friday, February 17 through Sunday, February 26, 2023.  Women's & Gender Studies is proud to be a co-sponsor of this event. This festival attends to women’s choices and showcases adaptations and transpositions to the silver screen while travelling from Quebec to Belgium and France and …
  • Cynthia Laborde, “Making a Splash: Women Cartoonists in France”
    Women's & Gender Studies is proud to be a co-sponsor of the Global Studies Speaker Series' presentation on Friday, February 17, 2023 at 2:00 pm. In her talk “Making a Splash: Women Cartoonists in France,” Dr. Laborde will focus on the impact of women cartoonists/graphic novelists in France in the 21st century. She will trace …

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