Ellen Riggle was selected as a recipient of the 2025 Albert D. and Elizabeth H. Kirwan Memorial Prize for outstanding contributions to research at the University of Kentucky. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Frances Henderson for winning a 2025 UK Outstanding Teaching Award!
Ellen Riggle's latest essay, I Need a Vacation, is published on Rise Up Review.
Aria Halliday has been featured in some recent articles/interviews:
- Snopes
- PolitiFact
- NWSA Podcast, Feminist Frequencies
- The Guardian
GWS held our annual awards day on May 8, 2025. Congratulations to all of our award winners:
- 2025 Joan Callahan Award for Scholastic Achievement: Nina Bradley.
- 2025 Kate Black Award for Activism: Mariana Escobedo de la Pena & Damaris Paulino Escobar.
- 2025 Jan Oaks Feminist Creativity Award: Kamryn Lin.
- 2025 Space, Place, & Southern Grace Fund for Feminist Studies: Damaris Paulino Escobar.
- 2024-2025 Tomasky Leaders: Damaris Paulino Escobar, Jenn Knight, Mariana Escobedo de la Pena, Ryan Yonts.
- GWS graduate certificate awardees: Aubrey Keller, Kay Hales, Kaycie Bolin.
- 2025 OPSVAW Graduate Fellowship: Jingxue Zhang.
Congratulations to our GWS PhD graduates: Dr. Lukas Bullock, Dr. Heather Carpenter, Dr. Alina Hechler, Dr. Lee Mandelo and Dr. Snehal Sharma!!! Graduation pictures below.
Elizabeth Williams and Anastasia Todd have been promoted to associate professor. Congratulations!
Aria Halliday's interview with esteemed emerita professor Dr. Ann duCille was published in Feminist Theory and can be read here
Congratulations to Jingxue Zhang, who has been chosen for a WRD Excellence in Teaching Award. This award honors graduate instructors that have demonstrated teaching excellence inside and outside the classroom.
Ellen Riggle has a new creative nonfiction essay, Assigned at Birth, published in Writers Resist.
Ellen Riggle has a new article released in New Ideas in Psychology: An International Journal of Innovative Theory in Psychology titled "Understanding the potential impact of ostracism on LGBTQ health disparities".
Aria Halliday's newest publications include the article "Diversity of Consumption: Mattel's Collectible Black Bodies" published in the Black Scholar and a review of Rob Goldberg's book "Radical Play" for The American Historical Review. You can read Halliday's review here.
Ellen Riggle's newest publication, "Traumatic Accumulation and Enumeration: A Poetic Voice for Experiences of Prejudice and Discrimination in the Academic Workplace" was published in the March edition of ADVANCE Journal.
Frances Henderson's recent piece "Social Media and the Study of Feminisms" is in the most recent edition of CELT's Greater Faculties.
Congratulations to Aria Halliday for being awarded the Marie Rich Endowment Fellowship.
Ellen Riggle, Jenn Hunt and former Post-Doc Abby Folberg have a new publication titled "Tolerance of homonegativity and transnegativity predicts negative evaluations of LGBT people and LGBT-supportive policies among US-based heterosexual, cisgender participants" in the Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Jingxue Zhang for being one of two recipients of the Feminist Formations/NWSA 2024 paper award for the paper, "Counter-Reproductive Memory: Chinese Young Women Against State Pronatalism".
Aria Halliday's newest book, "Black Girls and How We Fail Them" (UNC Press), will be released in February 2025: https://uncpress.org/book/9781469686110/black-girls-and-how-we-fail-them/
Congratulations to Elizabeth Williams, who was selected to be among six inaugural Lewis Honors College Faculty Fellows. You can read the UK Now story here.
