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Even in these challenging times, the future of gender, women and sexuality studies scholarship is bright! GWSS undergraduates are producing innovative, creative, and independent research projects that make meaningful contributions across multiple fields of inquiry–underscoring the vital importance of feminist thought on campus and beyond.
On Friday, May 16, eight exceptional GWSS majors will showcase their work at the 2025 UW Undergraduate Research Symposium. Their projects draw from… Read more
We are thrilled to share that Christina Yuen Zi Chung, who earned her Ph.D. in Feminist Studies from our department in 2024 and has since been a valued part-time lecturer, has accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Oregon.
Christina brings to her new role a deep expertise in Contemporary Art with a focus on Decolonizing Perspectives. During her time with us, she enriched our curriculum through… Read more
We're proud to share that Lou Chow has been selected as one of this year’s Husky 100, a prestigious recognition awarded to University of Washington students who are making a lasting impact through their academic work, leadership, and community engagement.
Lou’s work at the intersection of Dance and Gender, Women, Sexuality Studies reflects a deep commitment to… Read more
GWSS Chair and Professor Sasha Su-Ling Welland contributed to the Henry Art Gallery’s current exhibition, A.K. Burns: What is Perverse is Liquid, on view through April 27, 2025. Her reflection, Transoformation, is featured in the interpretive guide created for the exhibit and responds to the artwork Untitled (Grain). The piece appears alongside contributions from artists, scholars, and curators who offer a range of responses to works in the show.
Burns’s… Read more
GWSS is excited to announce that nominations for the 2024–25 academic year awards are officially open! These awards recognize outstanding contributions to our community, including leadership, activism, scholarly excellence, and commitment to feminist values.
We invite students, faculty, and staff to submit nominations — including self-nominations for many awards — by April 30. Whether you’re nominating a peer or yourself, this is a wonderful opportunity to honor the hard work… Read more
How can contemporary queer art challenge violently-imposed colonial models of gendered personhood? What futures become imaginable if we look to Indigenous ideas of embodiment that refuse not just rigid divisions between male and female, but also fixed boundaries between humans and animals, and between social and cosmological structures? These are some of the questions GWSS major Fiona Rivera explores in her newly published article.
Rivera’s article, “Queer Animality and Andean Cosmology… Read more
Almost 25 years ago, a group of University of Washington faculty members formed the Modern Girl Around the World Research Group. Based in the departments of English, History, International Studies, and Women Studies (now Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies) and drawing on regional expertise from Africa, Asia, Europe, and the United States, they set out to examine the phenomenon of the Modern Girl who emerged around the world in the first half of the twentieth century. Their groundbreaking… Read more
For women seeking to make their mark as entrepreneurs and business leaders, the statistics can be daunting. Despite ongoing efforts to promote gender equity in business, research shows that women–particularly women of color–face significant challenges. As of 2023, only 10% of Fortune 500 CEOs were women, with just 1% being women of color. Meanwhile, women-founded startups received less than 2% of venture capital funding.
However, numbers alone don’t tell the whole story. Despite systemic… Read more
Admitted students and families can engage with the College of Arts and Sciences through several department and program specific events over the next few weeks.
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Looking for a course? Consider one of these unique upper-level GWSS courses!
GWSS 420/520: Gender and Sexuality in India
Priti Ramamurthy | T/Th 1:30-3:20 | Eagleson Hall G01
This course traces histories and debates in feminist and queer studies in India. It approaches gender and sexuality as configurations – multiple, contested, and always in flux. We will explore how gender and sexuality are produced and experienced. As importantly, gender and sexuality are… Read more