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Sam Yoon to Join The School of Interdisciplinary Studies at Grand Valley State University
Recent WGSI graduate Dr. Sam Yoon will begin a position as an Assistant Professor in The School of Interdisciplinary Studies
WGSI PhD Student Valley Weadick Selected as a 2025-2026 Burstow Scholarship Recipient
The Women & Gender Studies Institute would like to congratulate PhD Student Valley Weadick on being selected as a recipient
Bennette Baguisa & Samantha Dolores Sanchinel are the recipients of the 2024-2025 June Larkin TA award
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
WGSI MA Student Stephanie Sawah is the Recipient of the 2024-2025 Margrit Eichler Award
The WGSI would like to congratulate MA student Stephanie Sawah on being the recipient of the 2024-2025 Margrit Eichler Award.
Vanbasten Noronha De Araújo, WGSI PhD Candidate is one of the recipients of the 2025 TATP TA Teaching Excellence Award
The Women & Gender Studies would like to congratulate PhD Candidate Vanbasten Noronha de Araújo on being one of the
Dr. Wafaa Hasan is the Recipient of ASSU’s 2025 Ranjini (Rini) Ghosh Excellence in Teaching Award
Please join us in congratulating Wafaa Hasan for being selected by the Arts & Science Students’ Union (ASSU) as this year’s recipient
The Technoscience Research Unit Stewards New Frontiers in Research Fund – Transformation Grant
We are happy to share that the Technoscience Research Unit is the steward of a New Frontiers in Research Fund -
A&S News Feature: Reclaiming dodgeball: At ‘Feminist Sports Club’, everyone’s a gold medalist
The WGSI's Feminist Sports Club was recently profiled in A&S News. Read the story here.
WGSI is delighted to announce the creation of an Annual Public Lecture named after M. Jacqui Alexander, WGSI Professor Emerita
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
Two WGSI Faculty Members Awarded CSRI Funding
The CrimSL Research Cluster for The Study of Racism and Inequality (CSRI) recently announced four awards "to support projects that