Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies News
Professor Janell Hobson writes about Beyonce's Black is King for Ms. Magazine
Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Professor and Chair Janell Hobson recently published an article in Ms. Magazine titled, Oshun Energy in Beyoncé’s “Black is King” about Beyonce's new visual album.
WGSS Faculty and Students Participated in Black Lives Matter March
Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies faculty and students participated in a Black Lives Matter rally in Troy, NY on Sunday, June 7, 2020.
The Year in WGSS Achievement
The year 2020 has been a challenging time for all of us, in which we must rely on virtual communication to keep connected. This has not stopped the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from doing what we often do every spring semester, in which we honor the achievements of our WGSS students and the class of 2020. Below is a list of our student award recipients, our WGSS interns and their mentors, and the Teaching Collective for 2019-2020. A special congratulations to the Class of 2020! View the awards and other achievements.
WGSS MA Final Project Showcase
Every year, the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies hosts a Showcase for our graduate students’ MA Final Projects, the capstone of their graduate education before earning their degrees. We are especially proud of this year’s cohorts who presented some of the most innovative and thought-provoking projects to come out of the department. Reflecting interdisciplinary topics, transnational subjects, and diverse perspectives on race, gender, and sexuality, our MA students continue to shine as exemplars of inclusive excellence. Visit the Showcase webpage for more details.
Professor Barbara Sutton Receives Gerda Henkel Foundation Grant
Congratulations to Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Core Faculty, Barbara Sutton, who received the Gerda Henkel Foundation grant to support her sabbatical project, "Fashion of Fear: Bodies, Inequality, and Security." The Gerda Henkel Foundation is based in Germany.
WGSS Undergrads Featured on New York Now
Undergraduate Women's, Gender and sexuality Studies researchers, through the guidance of Core Faculty, Rajani Bhatia, were featured earlier in the academic year in New York Now for their innovative storytelling project addressing the high maternal mortality rate among black women in New York State.
Janell Hobson Writes in Ms. on What Black Women’s Histories can Teach about Pandemics
In a new article published last week in Ms. magazine, Professor Janell Hobson, chair of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, looks at current and past pandemic and illuminates underreported racial and gender realities of today and of history.
One, she writes in “What Black Women’s Histories can Teach Us about Pandemics,” is that women as a demographic have been particularly overburdened by this pandemic, as they have with all others. Two, that there are women today in leadership positions around the globe that have proven to be “more than capable and even exemplars.”
WGSS Student Elected UAlbany Student Association President
Congratulations to our Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies major, Damilola Adesanya, who was elected President of the University at Albany Student Association.