Announcements

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Yasmine Gomez Receives LACS Award for Pop Conference
December 4, 2023
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Kemi Adeyemi Receives Prestigious Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize
November 7, 2023
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UWCHR Unveils First-Year Findings: Empowering Massage Parlor Workers and Students
November 3, 2023
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Cornell University Hosts Inspiring Chicana Feminism Celebration Featuring GWSS Professor and Alumna
October 19, 2023
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Kemi Adeyemi's Black Embodiments Studio (BES) Receives Future Studies Grant from Ruth Foundation for the Arts
October 9, 2023
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Chandan Reddy Named 2023 Freedom Scholar by Marguerite Casey Foundation
October 9, 2023
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Sumangala Damodaran Joins GWSS as Visiting Scholar in 2024 
September 20, 2023
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Introducing Kavita Dattani, GWSS Assistant Professor
September 20, 2023
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Professor Josephine Ensign Joins Humanities Washington's Speakers Bureau to Address Homelessness
September 14, 2023
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Monica De La Torre, Ph.D. Alum, to Present at Second Annual Henry R. Fenbert Challenging History Lecture
September 13, 2023
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Beyond Binary Science: Amanda Lock Swarr Explores Gender, Sex, and Science in New Podcast Episode // Science
August 25, 2023
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Dr. Mediha Sorma Successfully Defends Dissertation
August 3, 2023
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Autumn 2023 Featured Courses
June 27, 2023
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Saad Khan Receives Presidential Dissertation Fellowship for Groundbreaking LGBTQ Activism Research in Bangladesh
June 26, 2023
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Regina Yung Lee Among Group of Scholars Awarded Collaborative Project Grant by Simpson Center for Humanities
June 21, 2023
Book Cover for "Stories that Bind: Political Economy and Culture in New India": Title (black text) and subtitle (red text) are at the top of the image, stacked on top of one another, with the title being significantly larger is at the top in all caps. The authors name (Madhavi Murty) is at the bottom of the page. The majority of the cover is filled with color pencil drawings of Indian men and women engaged in various daily activities.
Madhavi Murty Honored with Outstanding Book Award by the International Communication Association
June 20, 2023
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Christina Yuen Zi Chung Receives Nancy C. M. Hartsock Award for Research on Gender Dynamics in Hong Kong
June 15, 2023
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Celebrate Pride Month with Duke University Press's Curated Selection of LGBTQ+ Books
June 12, 2023
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Dr. Iris Viveros Avendaño Successfully Defends Dissertation
June 12, 2023
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Dr. Michelle Morado Successfully Defends Dissertation
June 5, 2023
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Dr. fabian romero Successfully Defends Dissertation
June 5, 2023
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UW Population Health Initiative Awards Grant to Interdisciplinary Team of Researchers Studying the Impact of Abortion Myths on Healthcare Providers
June 1, 2023
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Marielle Marcaida and Jamelah Jacob Receive Support for Graduate Research Cluster on Transnational Filipinx Diaspora Studies
May 31, 2023
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Sasha Su-Ling Welland Selected as 2023-2024 Katz Distinguished Lecturer
May 22, 2023
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Anna Zhao Awarded Chester Fritz Fellowship for Research on Medicalized Childbirth in China
May 16, 2023
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GWSS Faculty Priti Ramamurthy and Regina Yung Lee Honored at the 2023 UW Awards of Excellence Ceremony
May 11, 2023
Monica De La Torre Promoted to Associate Professor at Arizona State University's School of Transborder Studies
May 10, 2023
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Bobbi Kindred Awarded UW College of Arts & Sciences' Prestigious Alvord Endowed Fellowship
May 1, 2023
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fabian romero Selected as Graduate School Gonfalonier for UW Commencement
April 19, 2023
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Christina Yuen Zi Chung Awarded Prestigious 2023-24 American Dissertation Fellowship 
April 18, 2023
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Marika Cifor Awarded Grant to Develop Spanish-Language Homosaurus 
April 6, 2023
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UW Sustainability Contest Awards Second Place Prize to Celine Waldmann's Trash Art Piece 'Reinvestment'
April 5, 2023
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2023 GWSS Award Nominations Open!
April 3, 2023
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Calling All GWSS Graduates: Tips for a Great Commencement Day
March 27, 2023
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Christina Yuen Zi Chung Awarded Competitive Women's Studies Dissertation Fellowship
March 22, 2023
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Regina Yung Lee Explores Feminist Pedagogy and Digital Project Creation in Latest Going Public Podcast Episode
March 22, 2023
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GWSS Hosts Food Drive to Benefit UW Food Pantry
March 9, 2023
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GWSS is Excited to Welcome Prospective Students and Families to the UW!
March 9, 2023
Cover of the book "Women in the Sky," featuring an industrialized birds-eye view of a city from atop construction equipment.
Hwasook Nam Honored with 2023 James B. Palais Book Prize 
March 7, 2023
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Christina Yuen Zi Chung Awarded the Joseph and Yetta Blau Award for Excellence in Research
February 16, 2023
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Josephine Ensign Explores Seattle's History of Health and Homelessness in Latest Book, Skid Road
January 31, 2023
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In Memoriam of Carolyn J. Allen, Advocate, Ally & Friend 
January 23, 2023
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Cricket Keating and Michelle Habell-Pallan Receive UW Global Innovation Awards
January 4, 2023
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Bettina Judd Explores Black Women Artists and Embodied Knowledge in Latest Book Feelin
January 4, 2023
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fabian romero Accepts Assistant Professor of Indigenous Knowledge Position at Ohio State University 
January 3, 2023
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GWSS Faculty & Graduate Students Recipients of UW Simpson Center Awards 
December 27, 2022
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Sasha Su-Ling Welland Awarded the Katz Distinguished Lectureship in the Humanities
December 27, 2022
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Michelle Morado Accepts Tenure-Track Position in History at Seattle Central College
December 14, 2022
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Mediha Sorma Contributes to Translation of Prison Writings by Kurdish Women Politicians
December 9, 2022
Nastasia Paul-Gera Successfully Passes her General Exams and Moves on to Candidacy
December 2, 2022