Incoming Assistant Professor Receives 2020 Career Enhancement Fellowship
By Madison Dyment
Aria Halliday, who will be joining the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and the African American and Africana Studies program in the fall, has been named a 2020 Career Enhancement Fellow by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. The department is part of the College of Arts & Sciences.
OPSVAW Announces it Will Fund Four Graduate Students in the 2020/2021 Academic Year
The Office for Policy Studies on Violence Against Women (OPSVAW) in the College of Arts and Sciences announced today the selection of four graduate students to receive three named graduate fellowships and one named research assistantship during the 2020/2021 academic year. The students were selected following a competitive proposal process the OPSVAW holds each year.
GWS Awards Day (May 1, 2020)
GWS held it's annual awards day on May 1, 2020. This year it was held via Zoom.
Congratulations to all of the award winners!
A&S Students Named Gaines Center Scholars
The University of Kentucky Gaines Center for the Humanities has selected 12 undergraduate students as new scholars for the Gaines Fellowship Program.
Gender and Women's Studies Professor Finds Online Class About Health and Diversity Takes on Startling Relevance
By Richard LeComte
Melissa Stein’s online Health, History, & Human Diversity class this spring took on an unwanted yet vital relevance with the COVID-19 pandemic. Suddenly, many aspects of past pandemics and other health issues the class studied had become alarmingly current.
Tomasky Scholars
By Madison Dyment
LEXINGTON, Ky. - A prominent goal of any institution is rewarding and enhancing student success – and the new Tomasky Leaders Scholarship Fund will help the Department of Gender & Women’s Studies achieve this goal.
Toward a Radical Bodywork Praxis
Gender studies has long valued theorizing embodiment in analyses of gendered, raced, and classed ways of being in the world. Women of color feminists in particular have noted the importance of centering what it means to live in a body that has been fetishized, rhetorically violenced, ridiculed, beaten, killed (Hill Collins, 1990; Moraga, 2009; Lorde, 1980; Anzaldua, 1987). In this talk, Jolie speaks about how her own experience of embodied poverty and sexual assault trauma drew her to a radical bodywork praxis. She draws on her experience teaching yoga in jails and prisons to argue for the inclusion of breath and body work in prison abolition.
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Niles Gallery
3rd Annual KYGWS Conference
3rd Annual KYGWS Conference in September, 2019 and The 2018-2019 Tomasky Leaders.