51猎奇

Congratulations to WGS Winners!

51猎奇 Women’s & Gender Studies
Research Paper & Project听Contest听奥颈苍苍别谤蝉
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Casey O鈥橞rien Outstanding Activist Awardee

On behalf of Women鈥檚 & Gender Studies Program, Anna Mansson McGinty, WGS Chair, would like to extend congratulations to this year’s winners of the annual 51猎奇 Women’s & Gender Studies Student Research Paper and Project Contest听and the Casey O鈥橞rien Outstanding Activist Award.

Also, thanks colleagues who served as reviewers on the different committees.

Rachel Skalitzky Award for Undergraduate Research
Melissa Marban,听Problematic Self-Care: The Self-Care Movement from a Feminist Perspective

听Second Place Undergraduate Research
Dallas Berka,听Willow Rosenberg and How Male Heterosexuality Shaped One of Pop Culture’s Most Iconic Queer Characters

Eliana G. Berg Award for Graduate Research
Xueyou Wang,听From Rice to Reservoirs: Hakka Women and Industrialization

听Second Place Graduate Research
Kari Pink,听The Emotional Journey of Fundamentalism: Longing for Place, Striving for Perfection and Managing Identity

Project Award
Quinn Stephens,听Fairy Tale Narrative

Casey O鈥橞rien Outstanding Activist Award
Xueyou Wang

Congratulations to all!

Women’s & Gender Studies’ Consortium Presents … Dr. Melinda Brennan!

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The is a WGSC initiative that supports graduate students, faculty and staff across the UW System interested in learning more about feminist leadership initiatives across UW System. This group meets virtually from 6:30-8pm on the last Thursday of the month (unless noted otherwise).

This working group is co-facilitated by Dr. Stephanie Rytilahti (she/her/hers), Director of the UW System Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies Consortium, and Dr. Silviana Amethyst (she/her/hers), Assistant Professor of Mathematics at UW-Eau Claire.

The first 45 minutes will consist of a brief dialogue from a leader across the UW System who will explain their leadership on a specific diversity initiative. In the next 45 minutes, we will facilitate a large group discussion and Q&A. On Thursday, March 31, 2022, from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m., Dr. Melinda Brennan (she/her/hers) will present on “Transitions of Justice & Care.”

Before being appointed as the new Executive Director of the ACLU Wisconsin, Melinda worked at UW-Milwaukee as the Assistant Chair and Undergraduate Advisor for Women’s & Gender Studies and was an active participant in many advocacy and caregiving committees, and she also served as the Co-Chair of the UW System Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium as a member of the Rapid Response Team for Hate and Bias Incidents, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice Board Consultant for the Atlanta Bicycle Coalition Project.

This is a fantastic opportunity to dialogue with an established professional, and a great chance to learn what Melinda is up to now!听 You can register to participate in this dialogue .

There is a Facebook page for the working group, () and participants can share articles from The Chronicles of Higher Ed and other relevant publications. We anticipate that the goals and format of this group may change, and that it will become an ongoing meeting space in subsequent years.

Carolyn Eichner: Fulbright Research Fellow!

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 on France and its empire, the study explores how the modern, imperializing state imposed naming controls, fortifying categories of inclusion and exclusion in order to monitor and regulate its citizens and subjects. It also investigates resistances to the regulation of this both intimate and public aspect of private life, looking specifically at colonial subjects, women, Jews, Muslims, and the aristocracy. The Name traces how governments use naming control to dominate populations. Simultaneously, it shows how people resist control by utilizing the power of naming.

TOMORROW! Feminist Lecture Series Speaker Announced

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Women’s & Gender Studies is honored to announce as this year’s Feminist Lecture Series Speaker.

Dean Spade (he/him) is a Professor at Seattle University School of Law.听 Dean has been working in movements for queer and trans liberation and racial and economic justice for the past two decades.听 He is the author of , the director of the documentary, “” and the creator of the mutual aid toolkit at .听 His latest book, , was published in 2020 and is soon to be published in Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Korean, Portuguese, Thai, Czech, and German.

Here are some quotes from Dean’s work to pique your interest in his presentation:

“We should understand that in the context of the US, where our legal system is based in settler colonialism, capitalism and white supremacy, changing laws will never sufficiently change the conditions of harm and violence our movements seek to transform.”
~ Dean Spade

“Elite solutions to poverty are always about managing poor people and never about redistributing wealth.”
~ Dean Spade

“When we feel bad, we often automatically decide that either we are bad or another person is bad. Both of these moves cause damage and distort the truth, which is that we are all navigating difficult conditions the best we can, and we all have a lot to learn and unlearn.”
~ Dean Spade

“The point for me is to create relationships based on deeper and more real notions of trust. So that love becomes defined not by sexual exclusivity, but by actual respect, concern, commitment to act with kind intentions, accountability for our actions, and a desire for mutual growth.”
~ Dean Spade

You can participate in this virtual event hosted on Zoom on Friday, February 25, 2022 from 3 to 5 pm.听 Advanced is required.

 

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Congratulations Carolyn Eichner

The Paris Commune book cover

Congratulations to WGS Faculty Carolyn Eichner! Her new book,听The Paris Commune: A Brief History听(),听has just come out!

 

2022 WGS Paper and Project Contest Now Open!

In celebration of Women鈥檚 History Month, Women鈥檚 & Gender Studies hosts the annual 51猎奇 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 completed for UWinteriM, Spring, Summer, or Fall 2021 courses at 51猎奇 are eligible for entry. Prizes will be awarded in the following four categories:

  • Undergraduate Research Paper: This paper, a minimum of five, double-spaced, typed pages, must demonstrate original thinking and critical engagement with the use of primary and/or secondary sources. (Book reports will not be accepted.)
  • Undergraduate Project: Projects could include, for example, an individual piece or portfolio of artwork, video production, curriculum design, musical composition, architectural or engineering design, original literary piece such as a poem or short story, or essay based primarily on personal or autobiographical reflection. Submit your project in a digital format that shows it best to the review committee. You may take photographs, videos, or any other transmissible digital format.
  • Graduate Research Paper: This paper, approximately 10-20 double-spaced, typed pages will likely utilize primary sources such as documents, statistical data, or interviews in an original research project written for a graduate course or seminar, or in an independent study.
  • Graduate Project: Projects could include, for example, an individual piece or portfolio of artwork, video production, curriculum design, musical composition, architectural or engineering design, or original literary piece such as a poem or short story. Projects should demonstrate a professional level of expertise. Submit your project in a digital format that shows it best to the review committee. You may take photographs, videos, or any other transmissible digital format.

Submission guidelines:

  • Written work must be typed, double-spaced, with a one inch margin: all pages should be numbered consecutively (including the bibliography).听Your name should not appear anywhere on your paper or your abstract.
  • All projects should be presented in as professional a manner as possible
  • The paper or project submitted for consideration may be a revision of the original submitted for the course.

All entries are judged anonymously, and all judges鈥� decisions are final.听 Link for the scholarship portal for more information.

2022 Casey O’Brien Outstanding Activist Award

The application process is now open for the Casey O’Brien Outstanding Activist Award.听听The award is given in recognition of student activism (on or off-campus) and leadership within the areas of women鈥檚 issues, gender and sexual equality, and social or racial justice.

Casey O鈥橞rien was a lecturer in Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies for ten years, beginning in 2008. She served a critical role in the development of the WGS undergraduate program, developing the course, WGS 211: Foundations of Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies Writing and Research, launching the WGS TA mentorship, and engaging students in service learning. As a result of her pedagogical innovations in the classroom, outstanding rapport with students, commitment to feminist teaching methods, and enthusiasm about the subject matter, she became an indispensable member of our teaching staff and a very popular teacher among our students, undergraduate and graduate alike.

Current Women鈥檚 & Gender Studies undergraduate students, WGS master’s students, and WGS graduate certificate students, whose activism and leadership address gender equality and/or social and racial justice, are eligible to apply.

Students who wish to be considered for this award must complete a description about their involvement in activism. You will find the to the Casey O鈥橞rien Outstanding Activist Award on your dashboard of the scholarship portal, or you may search for it by name.

The application deadline is March 10, 2022. Technical problems with the portal can be directed to let-sci@uwm.edu.

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 (AHA), a position which will impact the way students learn about history in the classroom for generations to come!

Fortunately, this is a part-time position so we will still have her on our team.

The primary responsibilities of this position will include the creation of an Object Library and two sets of Teaching Toolkits, one geared toward use in secondary schools and another for college classrooms. These resources will include a range of topics accessed through material culture, featuring object-based lessons across fields, time periods, and geographic spaces. Types of resources may include lesson plans, object analyses, videos, discussion questions, assignments, assessment guides, and activities. All materials will be accessed digitally through a new site built on Omeka. This is groundbreaking stuff!

The competition for this position was fierce, but we are not surprised that Krista was awarded the responsibility. Pedagogy is her passion, and we can鈥檛 wait to see what amazing things she does in her new role.

Congratulations, Krista!

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 51猎奇 for consideration for the annual Paper and Project Scholarship Contest

Find out more information by checking the .

Submission deadline is Thursday, March 10, 2022.

Spring 2022 Asia in Conversation Series

Please join the first Asia: In Conversation event for Spring 2022: 鈥淒ialogues on Engaging Muslim Communities in Research,鈥� with Janan Najeeb of Milwaukee Muslim Women鈥檚 Coalition, Chair of Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies Anna Mansson McGinty, and WGS affiliates Caroline Seymour-Jorn and Kristin Sziarto.

Friday, February 11, 2-3:30pm, via Zoom. Free and open to the public; advance registration required. .