Until further notice, the University of Arizona, in accordance with the guidelines recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, encourages all employees to work remotely. The Department of Gender and Women’s Studies office is closed to the public, but you can reach us, Monday–Friday 8am-4pm, at 520-621-7338 or by email to SBS-GWS@email.arizona.edu
We at the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies stand with UA’s Institute for LGBT Studies to “vehemently oppose the continued attack on transgender rights. We stand in solidarity with our trans* family, friends, colleagues, and community and are committed to support movement toward inclusive education in Arizona, which encompasses trans* peoples’ right to participate in sports and athletic teams.”
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Kassandra Manriquez will be attending the doctoral program in American Studies at New York University in the fall. Kassandra has also been nominated for the SBS Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award for her research on state policing of homeless solidarities.
David Lucero will be attending the prestigious Institute for the Recruitment of Teachers this July, a graduate school preparation program for first-generation students of color, held each summer at the Phillips... Read more Post date: Thu, 04/21/2016 - 8:12am |
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Brooke Lober has been awarded a Schlesinger dissertation grant for her project on Betty Friedan and Adrienne Rich—part of her larger dissertation entitled "Conflict and Alliance in the Struggle: Feminist Anti-Imperialism, Palestine Solidarity, and the U.S. Jewish Feminist Movement of the Late 20th Century." Congratulations! Post date: Fri, 04/08/2016 - 4:36pm |
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Mari Galup successfully defended her dissertation, titled "Seeds: Sembrando Futuros", this week. Dr. Galup will officially graduate with her Ph.D. in Gender and Women's Studies next month. Congratualtions! Post date: Fri, 04/08/2016 - 4:35pm |
Congratulations!Zeynep Korkman, GWS Assistant Professor, has received a research grant for six months during the 2016-2017 academic year from the National Endowment for the Humanities/American Research Institute in Turkey for her book-length project "Gendered Fortunes: Feelings, Labors, and Publics of Divination in Postsecular Turkey." Post date: Fri, 03/04/2016 - 4:28pm |
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Check out this AWESOME article in the AZ Wildcat!
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CONGRATULATIONS Kate on receiving the 2016 Louise Foucar Marshall Foundation Dissertation Fellowship. In 1930 Louise Foucar Marshall, ex-university professor, businesswoman and philanthropist, and her husband, Thomas Marshall, created a foundation that would, in Louise’s words, “carry on our work when we are gone.” It was the first private foundation in Arizona. Her goal was to create a permanent scholarship fund to aid deserving women who wanted to attend the University of... Read more Post date: Tue, 12/01/2015 - 10:44am |
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CONGRATULATIONS 2015 NWSA Graduate Scholarship Recipient Elizabeth Verklan!
Verklan’s project, Objects of Desire: Feminist Inquiry, Transnational Feminism, & Global Fashion, “promises to fundamentally change the way that we think about feminist knowledge production in relation to the fashion industry (from the making of clothes, to the modeling of clothes, to the transnational feminist critiques of the global assembly... Read more Post date: Mon, 11/16/2015 - 4:32pm |
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The Brudner Prize is awarded annually to an accomplished scholar or activist whose work has made significant contributions to the understanding of LGBT issues or furthered the tolerance of LGBT people. Post date: Thu, 09/24/2015 - 3:15pm |
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The American Studies Association chose Erin's dissertation, "Postcolonial Homophobia: United States Imperialism in Haiti and the Transnational Circulation of Anti-Gay Sexual Politics". Post date: Thu, 09/24/2015 - 3:14pm |
