WGSS News

WGSS alumni Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Vanessa Valenti, both co-founders of Feministing, are part of a feature in the New York Times as the blog comes to an end. 

The Harriet Tubman Pop-Up Exhibit at the Albany Barn took place on November 22, 2019. The exhibit was a collaborative public engagement across University at Albany, Albany Law School, and RPI. Students in the course “Race, Rape Culture, and the Law” contribute a detailed timeline exploring Tubman’s life. The event commemorated the 170th anniversary of Tubman’s escape from slavery. View photos from the event.

More than 200 members of the University’s faculty and staff — primarily women — gathered last week for a conference dedicated to strengthening connections, sharing experiences and encouraging the leadership of the University’s women.  

Congratulations to Prof. Barbara Sutton, who was selected for a Writing Residency at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Italy for Summer 2019. Also receiving honors is WGSS major Cheyenne Alexis-Pieters, who received a 2019 Presidential Award for Undergraduate Research for her creative photographic project on Black Women Artists.

SIGH (Sexuality Intersectionality Gender Hangout), the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies graduate student organization at the University at Albany, is hosting a conference titled Feminism is for Every(Body) on Saturday, April 13, from 9am-4pm in Humanities 354 (on the uptown UAlbany campus).

That’s how Mairead Carr describes last fall’s UAlbany - Albany Law School course “Race, Rape Culture and the Law,” which familiarizes students with the fundamentals of sexual harassment and assault laws and the ways in which they have affected the treatment of race, gender, identity and sexuality in the United States.