*Check out the editorial, A risky formulation, written by Srimati Basu and Brinda Bose and posted in the Hindustan Times in response to the article It's time to get real by Abhijit Banerjee. 

* Congratulations to Cristina Alcalde who has been selected as one of six international Visiting Professors and scholars at the Catholic University of Peru in Lima for the 2012-2013 academic year.  Dr. Alcalde will be teaching a graduate seminar on violence and femicide at the Catholic University of Peru this summer. 

*Srimati Basu has been awarded a fellowship from the American Institute for Indian Studies.  Congratulations!

* Check out the newest book publications of GWS faculty and alumni.

* Take a look at GWS' undergraduate and graduate courses for Spring 2013.

*Srimati Basu is quoted in the article "From Slum to Statehouse:  Women candidates from poor areas may alter India's political landscape" in the 40th Anniversary (Fall 2012) issue of Ms. magazine. 

*Susan Bordo's book The Creation of Anne Boleyn:  A New Look at England's Most Notorious Queen will be released in March 2013.  For more information about the forthcoming book please visit The Creation of Anne Boleyn website.

*Congratulations to Karen Tice whose book Queens of Academe:  Beauty Pageantry, Student Bodies, and Campus Life has been included in the list of books for the 2012 Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association.

*Congratulations to GWS alumni Bernadette Barton (Morehead State University) on the publication of her book, Pray the Gay Away:  The Extraordinary Lives of Bible Belt Gays. The book will be released Oct 1, 2012 and there will be a book launch party on Oct 6 at the Winchester Galleria from 4:00-6:00pm.

*GWS Major, Brittany Moore, was recently interviewed by the UK Alumni Association.  Check out the interview about Brittany's time in China and her experience in GWS.

*Congratulations to Ellen D.B. Riggle and Sharon S. Rostosky who received the Distinguished Book Award for 2012 from Division 44 of the American Psychological Association for their book, A Positive View of LGBTQ: Embracing Identity and Cultivating Well-Being (Rowman & Littlefield).

*Susan Bordo has a new essay published in The Chronicle of Higher Education titled, "When Fictionalized Facts Matter:  From 'Anne of the Thousand Days' to Hilary Mantel's new 'Bring Up the Bodies'"

*Congratulations to Karen Tice on the release of her new book, Queens of Academe:  Beauty Pageantry, Student Bodies, and College Life.

*Congratulations to Ellen D.B. Riggle and Sharon S. Rostosky on the release of their new book,  A Positive View of LGBTQ: Embracing Identity and Cultivating Well-Being.

*Srimati Basu has a new article published titled "Judges of Normality:  Mediating Marriage in the Family Courts of Kolkata, India".  The article appears in Signs, Vol 37., No. 2, Winter 2012:  469-492.