Recent News
In the spring of 2025, we launched a digital archive of our continuously growing GWSS Oral History Collection, a website designed by Sunaina Butler and Micaela Duran for their iSchool Capstone Project, with guidance from consultant Eileen Jerrett.
GWSS PhD candidate Jey Saung has successfully defended their dissertation, Alien Intimacies: Science Fiction, Queer Kinships, and the Asian Resident Alien.
The College of Arts & Sciences celebrates undergraduate and graduate students from across all four divisions, who are recognized for making the most of their time at the UW.
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on 2025 Husky 100
We’re excited to share that several GWSS graduate students and faculty members are among the recipients of Simpson Center for the Humanities funding for the 2025–2026 academic year.
GWSS Professor Amanda Swarr is featured in The Daily article, “Trans students are carrying the weight of the world. And UW administration’s silence is violent,” by Luna Crone-Barón.
We are thrilled to share that GWSS major Rachel Gardner Willson has been selected as a 2025 Bonderman Fellow!
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.
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.
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, a