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From November 12–16, GWSS faculty, students, and alumni gathered in San Juan for the annual National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) conference, an event that highlights the state of the field of gender, women’s, and sexuality studies and centers feminist research. This year’s conference—“An Honour Song: Feminist Struggles, Feminist Victories”—brought together thousands of scholars and activists…
GWSS alum and affiliate faculty member Shuxuan Zhou (PhD 2017) has been awarded a 2025 Grants for Artist Projects (GAP) grant from Artist Trust in the literary category. These annual awards provide project-based grants of $1,500 each to artists across Washington State. This year, Artist Trust distributed $97,500 to 65 recipients in what it described as “the most competitive GAP cohort in the program’s 36-year history.”As noted in their Artist Trust bio, Zhou is “a multifaceted writer,…
Shuxuan Zhou (Ph.D. 2017) has received continued recognition for her book From Forest Farm to Sawmill: Stories of Labor, Gender, and the Chinese State (University of Washington Press, 2024). Drawing on more than two decades of ethnographic research, oral histories, and archival materials, Zhou traces the lives of forestry workers in northern Fujian, China, from the Mao era through the post-socialist period.The book has been praised in multiple leading…
GWSS congratulates Jey Saung, who graduated with their PhD in Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies this year. Jey has accepted a position as Visiting Assistant Professor at Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies at Western Washington University for the 2025–26 academic year.In this role, Jey will be teaching four courses and continuing to build on their interdisciplinary research and teaching. We are thrilled to celebrate Jey’s accomplishments and look forward to staying connected as…
Looking for galleries to visit this fall? Check out these visual arts shows by UW alumni.
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Dr. Akanksha Misra (Ph.D. 2020) has been promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at SUNY Plattsburgh. She earned her doctorate in Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies from the University of Washington, building on earlier degrees from Sabanci University in Turkey and Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University in India. Her research includes menstrual justice, with a focus on Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in rural communities, and the role of motherhood in…
A new anthology co-edited by GWSS alum Iris Viveros Avendaño (PhD, 2023) features stories from early-career transnational scholars navigating Western academia through the lens of their experiences as adult immigrants and international students from the Global South. Navigating Academia as a Transnational Scholar from the Global South: Treasuring All the Knowledges is now available from Routledge.
Co-edited with Roxana Chiappa Barros (University of Tarapacá, Chile), the volume brings…
Viewpoint Magazine is celebrating 20 years of storytelling with its anniversary edition, "Changemakers: Then and Now," which profiles twenty individuals making a difference in their communities. Among those featured is GWSS alum Martha Gonzalez (PhD, 2013). Read the story in Viewpoint Magazine.
Gonzalez will return to Seattle this winter as part of the UW Public Lectures series. "An Evening with Martha Gonzalez" will take place at Seattle Town Hall on January 22, 2025. Registration is now…
GWSS Graduate Students and Alumni Featured in UW’s National First-Generation College Day Celebration
The University of Washington’s College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) recently celebrated National First-Generation College Day on November 8, with a variety of campus events and programming. As part of the celebration, CAS highlighted the stories of first-generation students and alumni in their news story, "We Are First-Generation: College of Arts & Sciences Students and Alumni."
We’re proud to share that two current GWSS PhD students, Yasmine Gomez and Keila Taylor, along with GWSS alumnus…
Effective August 2023, alma khasawnih has been promoted to an Associate Professor, a faculty position in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department at TCNJ.
khasawnih's manuscript project, Urgent Ephemera as Site of Revolutionary Collectivity, focuses on urgent ephemera–graffiti, murals, posters, and other visual culture production–that are produced during moments of political, social, and cultural revolution and unrest. Through transnational feminist imaginaries and…