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Professor Ana Lara and Professor Alai Reyes Stantos launch Digital Humanities Project – Caribbean Women Healers: Digital Scholarship Team Site
https://blogs.uoregon.edu/cwhdigitalproject/
About the Digital Humanities Project Caribbean Women Healers: Decolonizing Knowledge Within Afro-Indigenous Traditions is a collaborative research project developed by Professor Ana-Maurine Lara (Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies) ...Statement from the Department
June 5th, 2020
The department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies joins many others in our community in expressing grief and outrage at the murder of GEORGE FLOYD, DAVID MCATEE, BREONNA TAYLOR, TONY MCDADE, ATATIANA JEFFERSON, KAYLA MOORE, among too many other Black Americans. We know ...
National Women’s Studies Association Issues Statement
Statement in Support of Black Lives and Protests against Police and State Violence
June 4, 2020
NWSA is outraged about the recent death of George Floyd at the hands of a white police officer. Mr. Floyd’s murder is just the latest iteration of recent police violence, state-sanctioned ...
Congratulations to Associate Professor Balogun!
Congratulations to Professor Oluwakemi Balogun on her newly announced tenure and well received book titled Beauty Diplomacy: Embodying an Emerging Nation. We appreciate her service and dedication to our department, to exceptional and innovative research and to our students!
Beauty Diplomacy: ...
Dr. Stabile featured on WNYC Radio All Of It
Dr. Carol Stabile was featured on the New York Public Radio program All Of It, on November 12th, 2018.
Story can be heard here at the 37:00 minute mark: https://www.wnyc.org/story/david-sedaris-takes-vacation-todays-classical-music-picks-broadcast-41
Carol A. Stabile joined the program to ...
Faculty in the news: Kemi Balogun on beauty diplomacy in Nigeria
Professor Kemi Balogun’s current book project examines how women’s bodies symbolically represent Nigeria’s aesthetic center and signal the country’s economic potential within the region.
Read the full article here. (OCR-optimized PDF)
Margaret Rhee interviews with Bitch Magazine and Ploughshares
Check out the Bitch Magazine audio interview here, where Professor Rhee discusses fembots on Westworld, and don’t miss “A Way I Could World-Build in Poetry”.
WGS mourns the loss of Sandra Morgen
An announcement can be found on the CSWS website. Sandra Morgen spoke at the WGS commencement ceremony in 2014 and has been a long-time ally of WGS. Our condolences go out to her friends and family.
Sandra Lynn Morgen 1950-2016
“Let me live lovingly, generously, courageously…”
What can you do with a degree in WGS?
We love to keep abreast of what our grads are doing in their lives and careers. If you’ve landed a sweet job, tell us about it with our alumni update form! We are working on compiling a list of careers our grads are pursuing for informational purposes for current and future students. ...