Women and Gender Studies Institute
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 […]
Please join us in congratulating Wafaa Hasan for being selected by the Arts & Science Students’ Union (ASSU) as this year’s recipient of the Ranjini (Rini) Ghosh Excellence in Teaching Award. Students nominated […]
We are happy to share that the Technoscience Research Unit is the steward of a New Frontiers in Research Fund – Transformation stream grant that brings $22 million dollars to a […]
The WGSI’s Feminist Sports Club was recently profiled in A&S News. Read the story here.
This annual WGSI lecture, which will be launched in 2026, will honour the incredibly generative contributions Professor Emerita M. Jacqui Alexander has made to the field of transnational women’s studies, as well as to Black feminist, Caribbean feminist and queer of colourscholarship. It recognises the impact of Jacqui’s undergraduate and graduate teaching […]