Category: News

The WGSI is delighted to announce that incoming WGSI Collaborative student Taylor Chalker has been awarded the Kay Armatage Graduate Women and Gender Studies Entrance Prize for the 2025-2026 academic year. This award is […]

Please join the WGSI in congratulating Jade Nixon who successfully defended her doctoral dissertation  –  “The Site of Feeling: Black Caribbean Women’s Theories of Gathering on the Ubersoca Cruise Ship.” […]

The Women & Gender Studies Institute is pleased to announce that four of our students, Yusra Khogali Ali, Esra Kazanbas, Valley Weadick and Leslyn Stobbs are recipients of the 2025-2026 […]

Please join the WGSI in congratulating Dr. Hazal Halavut, who successfully defended her doctoral dissertation – “Archives of Absence: Nation’s Sleep, Perpetrator’s Dream, and Afterlives of Genocide.”   Hazal’s committee consisted […]

Recent WGSI graduate Dr. Sam Yoon will begin a position as an Assistant Professor in The School of Interdisciplinary Studies at Grand Valley State University this upcoming Fall. Sam, who […]

The Women & Gender Studies Institute would like to congratulate PhD Student Valley Weadick on being selected as a recipient of the School of Graduate Studies’ 2025-2026 Burstow Scholarship for […]

Congratulations to WGSI PhD Students Samantha Dolores Sanchinel and Bennette Baguisa on receiving the 2024-2025 June Larkin TA Award. The award recognizes outstanding graduate student contributions to undergraduate teaching and mentorship demonstrated through creative […]

The WGSI would like to congratulate MA student Stephanie Sawah on being the recipient of the 2024-2025 Margrit Eichler Award. This award recognizes overall achievement in graduate student leadership during the academic year. Professor Margrit Eichler was […]

The Women & Gender Studies would like to congratulate PhD Candidate Vanbasten Noronha de Araújo on being one of the recipients of the 2025 TATP Teaching Excellence Award. This award […]