Faculty and Staff

Skid Road Book Cover. Skid and Road are stacked on top of one another in large white lettering with the subititle "on the frontier of health and homelessness in Seattle" appearing in smaller letters in between.
Josephine Ensign Explores Seattle's History of Health and Homelessness in Latest Book, Skid Road
(January 31, 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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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)
Book cover of Kemi Adeyemi's book Feels Right. White text with green and red accents with an image of black women dancing in a nightclub to the left of the text.
Spotlight on Kemi Adeyemi's New Book "Feels Right" // UW News
(December 14, 2022)
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Amanda Swarr Featured Guest on Grad Share Podcast
(December 6, 2022)
Book cover of Kemi Adeyemi's book Feels Right. White text with green and red accents with an image of black women dancing in a nightclub to the left of the text.
New Book by Kemi Adeyemi: Feels Right
(November 28, 2022)
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Regina Yung Lee Quoted in The Daily on the Paradox of the 'Mary Sue' Archetype
(November 15, 2022)
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GWSS Presents a Strong Showing at the American Studies Association (ASA) Annual Meeting
(November 3, 2022)
Sasha Welland standing at a podium in front of a larger projection screen featuring text and an image of Jin-me Yoon’s artwork title "Untunnelling Vision"
Sasha Welland Explores the Histories and Aesthetics Embodied in Jin-me Yoon’s Untunnelling Vision
(October 31, 2022)
An upper-body shot of Professor Regina Lee, an asian woman wearing glasses with shoulder-length, dark brown hair, and wearing a button up cardigan with her hands folded on the table in front of her.
Analyzing Data as a Site of Power and Resistance in Professor Lee's course on Critical Feminist Data Studies
(October 7, 2022)
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GWSS Searches for Assistant Professor in Critical Feminist Data Studies
(September 14, 2022)
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Community Development and Trans-Centered Choral Pedagogy, Mikey Prince on his internship with Symphony Tacoma Voices 
(July 20, 2022)
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Chandan Reddy Named Co-Editor of GLQ
(July 20, 2022)
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Kemi Adeyemi breaks down a shared laugh in Passing
(July 20, 2022)
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Kemi Adeyemi’s Visionary Black Embodiments Studio Generates Synergy at UW and Recognition of Black Arts in Seattle 
(July 18, 2022)
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Cricket Keating Receives Fellowship for Her Book and a UW Labor Studies Grant to Develop a New Course
(July 18, 2022)
Journal cover of Transgender Studies Quarterly. Mostly black page with white and pink font. Featuring image of an upside down heart with hands inside and a glittery background.
Amanda Swarr Receives Fellowship for Her Book and Serves as Co-Editor of “The Intersex Issue” of TSQ
(July 18, 2022)
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From Northwestern to UW, These Three Faculty Members Have Built a Connection to Last 
(July 5, 2022)
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Professor Bettina Judd Discusses the Inequitable and Unjust Impacts of SCOTUS's Ruling to Overturn Roe v. Wade
(June 24, 2022)
An upper body photo of professor Bettina Judd, a black woman with long braids and her head tilted to the left, wearing black framed glasses and a black top
‘Folks on the ground have been activated and ready’: UW expert on reproductive justice and the U.S. Supreme Court
(June 23, 2022)
Space Gayze
Professor Regina Young Lee Discusses the Queer Subtext of Star Wars with The Daily 
(May 17, 2022)
Biology and Manners: Essays on the Worlds and Works of Lois McMaster Bujold edited by Regina Yung Lee and Una McCormack
Regina Lee & Jey Saung - Feminist Science Fiction
(April 12, 2022)
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Priti Ramamurthy & Jiwoon Yulee - Feminists on Capitalism
(April 12, 2022)
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Kemi Adeyemi is a 2022 Lammy Finalist
(April 11, 2022)
Bettina Judd
Bettina Judd featured in Poem-a-Day 
(April 11, 2022)
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Introducing Whitney Miller, GWSS Program Coordinator & Graduate Advisor
(April 6, 2022)
Celine Waldmann with her dog, Jimmy
Introducing Celine Waldmann, GWSS Undergraduate Advisor
(April 4, 2022)
Image of Lambda Literary Finalists for LGBTQ Anthology
GWSS Professor Adeyemi's "Queer Nightlife" is a finalist for a prestigious Lambda Literary Award 
(March 16, 2022)
Fantasy Face in Trees
GWSS Professor Regina Lee's course, Feminist Science (Fiction) Studies, Featured on College of Arts & Sciences Spring Cool Courses List
(March 8, 2022)
Woman and Child on Traditional Boat on Body of Water in South America
GWSS Professors Michelle Habell-Pallan and Cricket Keating Set to Co-Lead a Microseminar on Plurifeminisms Across Abya Yala for the Simpson Center in Spring Quarter
(March 3, 2022)
Stained Glass Inside a Spanish Cathedral
Apply now for Study Abroad in Spain, co-led by GWSS Professor Michelle Habell-Pallan
(March 3, 2022)
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Women in the Workforce article in The Daily features GWSS Professor Regina Yung Lee
(February 28, 2022)
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GWSS Awards: Nominations Open!
(February 15, 2022)
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GWSS Dept. Chair, Shirley J. Yee, passes the torch to incoming Dept. Chair, Sasha Su-Ling Welland 
(December 14, 2021)
Ofrenda Podcast
GWSS Professor Michelle Habell-Pallán's Ofrenda Podcast is Featured in The Daily
(December 8, 2021)
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CLAGS (Center for LGBTQ Studies) Fellowship winners, GWSS Professor Kemi Adeyemi and Kareem Khubchandani, join Margot Weiss to discuss their new book, Queer Nightlife
(November 4, 2021)
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GWSS Professor Michelle Habell-Pallan participates in panel on community-based archives
(November 4, 2021)
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National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) Annual Conference 2021
(October 21, 2021)
Bettina Judd
GWSS Assistant Professor Bettina Judd's poem, "Not My Ancestors," featured by the Academy of American Poets on Poem-a-Day
(October 20, 2021)
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Kemi Adeyemi, Kareem Khubchandani, and Ramón Rivera-Servera discuss their new book, Queer Nightlife, in an audio interview with Isabel Machado at New Books Network
(October 19, 2021)
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Dianne Harris named dean of UW College of Arts & Sciences
(July 15, 2021)
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The Ofrenda Podcast
(June 30, 2021)
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Awards of Excellence
(June 15, 2021)
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Husky 100
(June 15, 2021)
Michelle Habell-Pallan receives James D. Clowes Award for the Advancement of Learning Communities
Michelle Habell-Pallán receives James D. Clowes Award for the Advancement of Learning Communities
(June 11, 2021)
Assistant Professor Kemi Adeyemi and new media artist Shawné Michaelain Holloway meet with Black Embodiment Studio students.
Celebrating Fifty Years of Outsized Impact
(June 1, 2021)
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Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
(May 14, 2021)
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The UW's trailblazing women studies program turns 50
(April 12, 2021)