Announcements

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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)
Upper body shot of Iris Viveros Avendano outside with grass and trees behind her. She has long wavy brown hair with long side-swept bangs. She is wearing a white sleeveless turtleneck and pink lipstick.
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)
The exterior of the Hans Rosling Population Health Building, a modern and architecturally striking facility with sleek lines and large windows, surrounded by landscaped green spaces.
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)
Full body shot of Christina Chung wearing long black and white coat, with hands crossed in front of her, smiling at the camera. Cherry blossom trees in the background.
Christina Yuen Zi Chung Awarded Prestigious 2023-24 American Dissertation Fellowship 
(April 18, 2023)
Upper body shot of Marika Cifor wearing red blouse and glasses with long brown hair over right-shoulder. UW's Suzzallo Hall is in the background and has purple "Welcome" banners draped on both sides of the entryway.
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)
Gold and purple balloons in front of Suzzallo Library
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)
Upper body shot of Regina Yung Lee smiling at the camera, wearing tinted glasses and a black and brown patterned top. She has her hand clasped on the desk in front of her and in the background are a variety of musical instruments.
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)
Full body shot of Christina Chung wearing long black and white coat, with hands crossed in front of her, smiling at the camera. Cherry blossom trees in the background.
Christina Yuen Zi Chung Awarded the Joseph and Yetta Blau Award for Excellence in Research
(February 16, 2023)
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)
Photo of Carol Allen, an old white woman with ear-length white hair, wearing glasses, a blue button-up over a white t-shirt, with green foliage in the background
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)
Book cover with drawing of backside of a full-figured naked person surrounded by foliage.
Bettina Judd Explores Black Women Artists and Embodied Knowledge in Latest Book Feelin
(January 4, 2023)
fabian romero standing in front of the woods wearing a pocket t-shirt, with tattoos on arms and neck, hair shaved on the sides and curly on top
fabian romero Accepts Assistant Professor of Indigenous Knowledge Position at Ohio State University 
(January 3, 2023)
University of Washington medal on a purple ribbon with a solid grey background
GWSS Faculty & Graduate Students Recipients of UW Simpson Center Awards 
(December 27, 2022)
Sasha Welland headshot: shoulder-length grey cruly hair, red framed glasses, dangly earrings and smile showing teeth
Sasha Su-Ling Welland Awarded the Katz Distinguished Lectureship in the Humanities
(December 27, 2022)
Left-facing profile of Michelle Morado wearing a black top, red lipstick, and with should-length curly brown hair. Background of lattice over hay.
Michelle Morado Accepts Tenure-Track Position in History at Seattle Central College
(December 14, 2022)
Book cover with purple background, white flowers and birds covered by black lines symbolizing prison bars with the bar in the middle replaced by a pencil
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)
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)
Ramon Johnson Speaking at LGBTQ+ Presidents Panel for the 16th National HBCU Leadership Summit at the Human Rights Campaign
(November 9, 2022)
Image of woman (Martha Gonzalez) sitting in the middle of a couch playing a guitar with her son and husband on either side of her also playing guitars.
Martha Gonzalez Receives 2022 MacArthur Fellowship
(October 13, 2022)
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New Winter 2023 Courses Respond to Current Events
(October 10, 2022)
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GWSS Searches for Assistant Professor in Critical Feminist Data Studies
(September 14, 2022)
Shuxuan Zhou
Shuxuan Zhou's Essay "The Posthumous Child" Wins Grand Prize in Sixth Tone Writing Contest
(September 12, 2022)
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fabian romero offers Writing Embodied Workshop at the Henry Art Gallery
(August 22, 2022)
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Nastasia Paul-Gera Selected for the Graduate School's 2022 Distinguished Thesis Award 
(August 9, 2022)
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Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies Statement on Reproductive Justice
(July 20, 2022)
GLQ Journal Cover: pink background with dark pink text made to look like the sideways outline of the American flag with the words "Queer Liberation Means Prison Abolition" behind the the stripes, which look like prison bars
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)