Aria Halliday's "For the Love of Black Girls: Building Black Girlhood Studies as a Lifejacket" is being published in The Routledge Companion to Girls' Studies in April, 2024.
Lukas Bullock was selected as a recipient of the 2024 UK Outstanding Teaching award, in the TA category. Congrats, Lukas! See pictures below from the awards ceremony.
Nelson Jiajie Meng won the 2024 graduate student paper prize at the Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies and was accepted to the 2024 Feminist Decolonial Politics Workship taking place June 4-7, 2024. Congratulations, Nelson!
Congratulations to Mariana Escobedo de la Pena for being awarded the 2024 Space, Place, and Southern Grace for Feminist Studies Scholarship.
Frances Henderson is the President of WGS-South. Congrats, Frances!
Anastasia Todd's book Cripping Girlhood is being published in May. Congratulations!!!
Congratulations to Charlie Zhang, who was funded for his project on "Transpacific Affective Circuits: Mapping Speculative Valuation of Life, Afterlife, and No-Life" by UNITE and was also chosen to attend the East-West Center's Summer Institute funded by the Luce Foundation.
Jenn Hunt won the 2024 A&S Innovative Teaching Award. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Lee Mandelo, whose book Feed Them Silence is listed in the 2023 NPR Books We Love list! and Lee's book The Woods All Black was also recenlty published.
Congratulations to Rebecca Lentjes, whose paper "Solidarity in Vulnerability: Abortion Funds and Everyday Modes of Resistance", was selected as an honorable mention finalist for the 2023 Wise-Susman Prize from the American Studies Association.
You can read the Fall 2023 GWS Newsletter here
Check out the second installment of the GWS Undergraduate Newsletter here
Lukas Bullock published an op-ed in the Herald Leader focusing on advocating for proposed legislation in Lexington that would ban housing discrimination based on source of income. You can read it here
Aria Halliday & Ashleigh Greene Wade (UVA) edited a Cultural Studies journal special issue inspired by Badia Ahad-Legardy's concept of Afro-Nostalgia! They and nine authors examine how streaming services force us to navigate Black memory/nostalgia anew: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09502386.2023.2261951?src=
Aria Halliday’s chapter, “Towards a Black Feminism for Black Girls” has been published in the Bloomsbury Companion to Childhood Studies. The book is ready for pre-order and will be published November 3, 2023: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/bloomsbury-handbook-of-theories-in-childhood-studies-9781350263840/
Check out Aria Halliday's op ed, "How new era Barbie finally made me want a doll" featured in the Herald Leader and UK Now: http://uknow.uky.edu/research/op-ed-how-new-era-barbie-finally-made-me-want-doll
Congratulations to Lukas Bullock, whose article "Exporting Sexköpslagen: Sweden, Sex Work, and the Moral Stakes of Externalizing Feminist Policy" has been published in Sexuality Research and Social Policy.
Aria Halliday and Ashley N. Payne's article “From #HotGirlSummer to #HotNerdFall: Megan Thee Stallion, ratchet-respectability, and the Socioeducational identities of Black girls/women” was recently published in Gender and Education.
Check out the UK Now story about Elizabeth Williams' 2023 Provost Outstanding Teaching Award.
GWS celebrated our annual awards day on May 1, 2023. Congratulations to our award winners!
- GWS Honors Students: Colton Barton, Hallie Lintner, Lora Lovings, Audrey Matthews-Fields, Laura O'Flanagan, & Quinn Troia
- 2023 Joan Callahan Award for Scholastic Achievement: Colton Barton & Audrey Matthews-Fields
- 2023 Kate Black Award for Activism: Mack Thompson
- 2023 Jan Oaks Feminist Creativity Award: Quinn Troia
- 2023 Space, Place, & Southern Grace Fund for Feminist Studies: Hallie Lintner
- GWS graduate certificate awardees: Erin Aiello, Jesus Ponte Bernal, Daniela Clvache, Rebeca Ponce Ochoa, Jordan McCray, Michelle Roberts, and Paula Ruiz Santamaria
- 2023 OPSVAW Graduate Fellowship: Lukas Bullock
Congratulations to Carol Mason, who has been appointed A&S Otis A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities, 2023-2027.
Congratulations to Elizabeth Williams, who is the recipient of the 2023 UK Outstanding Teaching Award.
Congratulations to Aria Halliday, who has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure!
Congratulations to Ellen Riggle, who received first place in the Carnegie Center's Harriet A. Rose Legacies writing contest.
Congrats to Lukas Bullock, who was selected as a finalist for 2023 Grad Teach Live!
The triple issue of Law and Human Behavior that Jenn Hunt guest edited with Stephane Shepard has been released. The special issue's topic is Racial Justice in the Criminal Justice and Legal Systems. Congratulations Jenn!
Congratulations to Charlie Yi Zhang, recipient of the Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies 2023 Outstanding Book Prize for his book Dreadful Desires: The Uses of Love in Neoliberal China!
Congratulations to Anastasia Todd, whose upcoming book Crippling Girlhood has been chosen for the 2022 Tobin Siebers Prize for Disability Studies in the Humanities. You can read the announcement here.
Congratulations to Rusty Barrett, Professor in the Department of Linguistics and GWS faculty affiliate, who has been named the LSA 2023 Arnold Zwicky Award recipient. You can read the announcement here: https://www.linguisticsociety.org/news/2022/10/10/rusty-barrett-named-lsa-2023-arnold-zwicky-award-recipient
New Documentary Released -- Becoming Myself: Positive Trans & Nonbinary Identities The film is available to watch for free on the PrismResearch.org YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pyzeSvv_dw. The ten-minute film features narratives from the lives of seven transgender and nonbinary identified young adults who discuss the positive aspects of their identities and offer support for other transgender and nonbinary people. Individuals featured in the film reflect on their experiences navigating gender identity and how their journey has impacted them. The film is directed and produced by Michael Breeding (Michael Breeding MEDIA); Executive Producers Zakary Clements, Ellen D.B. Riggle, and Sharon S. Rostosky; with funding support from JustFundKY.
