As our WGS graduates were unable to attend a traditional ceremony this year, a few people wanted to wish them well.ĚýPlease enjoy this 2020 Graduation Celebration.
Brown Bag Series Presentations for Spring 2020
Women’s & Gender Studies’ Brown Bag Series of presentations are back!Ěý These These sessions are held one Wednesday each month at 12:30 pm in Curtin Hall 535B. Here is a list of presenters and topics.Ěý Free and open to the public.Ěý Bring your lunch and we hope to see you there!
Now Accepting Submissions​ & Applications
Women’s & Gender Studies ​Paper and Project Contest​
Undergraduate and Graduate Research papers and projects on women, gender, sexuality, feminism or feminist thinking which were completed for UWinteriM, Spring, Summer, or Fall 2024 courses at 51ÁÔĆć are eligible for submission.​
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Deadline for applications is February 17, 2025​
The Florence L. Healy Scholarship​
is open to 51ÁÔĆć students with research interest on Women’s & Gender Studies. Eligibility criteria includes:​
- Sophomore, Junior, Senior, or Graduate status​
- Full time enrollment​
- Minimum 3.0 GPA​
- Taken at least 1 WGS course​
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Deadline for applications is February 17, 2025
Casey O’Brien Activist Award​
The application 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 racial justice and will be enrolled in any Women’s & Gender Studies program (Major, Minor or Graduate).​
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Deadline for applications is February 17, 2025​
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.
Congratulations, Carolyn!
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, 51ÁÔĆć’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 roundtable, we discussed our program’s history, recent achievements, and challenges we continue to face. Teaching and researching WGS at a public university and engaging in community outreach during an age of economic austerity in a political battleground state means addressing increasing attacks on queer and trans identity; diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives; immigrant communities; and critical race theory, while further policing our ability to speak out against geopolitical turmoil and settler coloniality locally, nationally, and globally. We took this opportunity to imagine the future of the WGS program and to discuss strategies for addressing these challenges. We also outlined pedagogical and programmatic models that require minimal financial support and options for expansion when additional financial, institutional, and community resources are available. We enjoyed a lively exchange of ideas and strategies with attendees.
Scholarship Submission Deadline
Thursday, February 14, 2024Ěýis the deadline for consideration for the WGS Paper and Project Contest, the Casey O’Brien Activist Award, and the Florence Healy Award – get yourĚýĚýin 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, 2024
Women’s & Gender Studies will celebrate our 50thĚýanniversary at UW-Milwaukee with an alumni panel and reception.Ěý Mark your calendars and watch this space for details!
- Vilas Lecture Series Speaker Kavita Panjabi
Friday, April 05, 2024
Kavita Panjabi continues the Vilas Lecture Speaker Series tradition with “Affects of War in Civil Society: A Southasian Feminist Movement” in Mitchell Hall room 195 at 3:00 p.m.
- WGS Awards Ceremony
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Come celebrate the recipients of the WGS Paper and Project Contest, the Casey O’Brien Activist Award, and the Florence Healy Award!
- Scholarship Submission Deadline
Thursday, February 14, 2024
The deadline for consideration for the WGS Paper and Project Contest, the Casey O’Brien Activist Award, and the Florence Healy Award – get your in ASAP!
Congratulations to Steinbeck Fellow Xueyou Wang!
Congratulations to Xueyou Wang, () a recent WGS MA graduate at 51ÁÔĆć, 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 this fellowship, Xueyou will be writing a book of short stories (fiction, still Untitled) that include stories about family, loss, love, relationships, and intergenerational struggles, including those brought about by migration, and there will be a focus on intersections between Asian diaspora culture and Latin American culture.
The Steinbeck Fellows Program is financed by the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies at San Jose State University. It has emerged as one of America’s premiere writing fellowships. Read more about the Steinbeck Fellowship
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 be served in Curtin Hall, room 535B, from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm.Ěý Please email wagnerss@uwm.edu before Tuesday, May 02, 2023 to register.
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, and under what conditions, is straightness easier. Drawing from ethnographic field work, archival research, and cultural studies methods, Ward examines the 20th century emergence of a “heterosexual repair industry”—a self-help empire designed to romanticize and ease heterosexual misery while eliding attention to heteropatriarchy and the queer, feminist interventions poised to undo it. In this talk, Ward takes her analysis in new directions, pointing to the global implications of heterosexual misery by analyzing the global “anti-gender” (or “gender critical”) movement and the collective anxiety about gender and sexuality that animates it. Ward conceptualizes “gender critical” projects as expressions of heteroparanoia and psychic dissonance aimed at reconciling the paradoxes of modern heterosexuality, and offers a feminist assessment of these projects’ trajectories.
Friday, May 05, 2023 ~ 3:00 – 4:30 pm ~ Lubar Entrepreneurship Center 107
Sponsored by the William F. Vilas Trust Fund and Women’s & Gender Studies
Co-sponsored by Departments of Global Studies and Sociology, LGBT+ Studies, LGBTQ+ Resource Center and Women’s Resource Center.
This event is free and open to the public.
Congratulations to all WGS Contest Winners!
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Casey O’Brien Outstanding Activist Awardee
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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 51ÁÔĆć Women’s & Gender Studies Student Research Paper and Project ContestĚýand the Casey O’Brien Outstanding Activist Award.
Also, thanks colleagues who served as reviewers on the different committees.
Rachel Skalitzky Award for Undergraduate Research
Anonymous, The Egyptian Revolution of the 1920s: Feminism, Binaries, and “The Colonization of Consciousness”
ĚýRunner Up Undergraduate Research
Kade Barkas, Netflix’s Arcane: How Close is the World to Creating a Queer Future?
Undergraduate Project Award
Ronan Carpenter, You Should’ve Raised a Baby Girl (I Could Have Been a Better Son): Understanding Punk’s Relationship to Genderqueerness and Transidentity Through My Chemical Romance’s Discography
Runner Up Undergraduate Project
Lia Smith, Last Day in Sarajevo
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Eliana G. Berg Award for Graduate Research
Viashima David Ko, Intersectionality: Towards Anzaldúa’s New Mestiza Consciousness
ĚýRunners Up Graduate Research
Molly Lieber, Queering Lactation
Elinor Ellenbecker, Neuroqueer Orientations: A Historical Analysis of Autistic Social Reproductions
Graduate Project Award
Anonymous, Architectural Program Study – Redeem & Restore Center
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Casey O’Brien Outstanding Activist Award
Abagail Houck
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Florence L. Healy Scholarship in Women’s & Gender Studies
Anonymous
Ducky Griesemer
Kaitlyn Hein
Molly Lieber
Blessing Uwisike