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.
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 held it's annual awards day on May 1, 2020. This year it was held via Zoom.
Congratulations to all of the award winners!
The University of Kentucky Gaines Center for the Humanities has selected 12 undergraduate students as new scholars for the Gaines Fellowship Program.
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.
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.
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.
3rd Annual KYGWS Conference in September, 2019 and The 2018-2019 Tomasky Leaders.
Appalachian Studies Association Conference Plenary II, Black Appalachian Women: Testimonies, Environmental Justice, and Historical Reparations
Friday, March 13, 2020, 5:00pm-6:15pm in the Gatton Student Center Worsham Cinema. A panel of Black Appalachian women discuss their work in the academy, film, social justice organizations, literature, and museums.
Panelists include: Karida Brown, UCLA Associate Professor of Sociology; Kelly Navies, Museum Specialist Oral Historian at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture; Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, Co-Executive Director, Highlander Research & Education Center; and Crystal Wilkinson, UK Associate Professor of English; moderated by Jillean McCommons, UK Department of History PhD Candidate
This event is a part of the Appalachian Studies Association Conference and is a sponsored by the Year of Equity
