Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies News
WGSS MA Student Boluwatife Ajayi Represents UAlbany in the 2022 Women's Empowerment Draft
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies MA Student Boluwatife Ajayi is representing the University at Albany in the 2022 Women's Empowerment Draft. UAlbany is honoring Susan S. McKinney in the draft. The 2022 Women's Empowerment Draft is a New York statewide initiative to honor empowering women during Women's History Month.
WGSS Graduate Student Karen Chang Selected for a Fellowship on Women & Public Policy
The 2022 Fellowship on Women & Public Policy program provides an intensive program to develop participants for careers in public policy. The award-winning program has been preparing women for public service leadership since the early 1980s through academic and experiential learning, supplemented by professional development workshops, mentoring and networking opportunities. Karen Chang, one of twelve participants selected, is pursuing a master’s degree in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
International Collaborative Project Directed by Dr. Nayla Luz Vacarezza (Visiting Scholar in 2021) is Selected for Funding
The National Agency for the Promotion of Research, Technological Development, and Innovation in Argentina, through its Scientific and Technological Research Fund, has awarded funding to the project “Cultural Production, Affect and Prefigurative Politics of the Movement for Abortion Rights in Latin America’s Southern Cone.” This project will be directed by Dr. Nayla Luz Vacarezza, who was a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at UAlbany during 2021. For the next two years, she will be working with Dr. Barbara Sutton...
WGSS Professor and Chair Barbara Sutton to Speak at Brooklyn College Talk Feb. 16
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Professor and Chair Barbara Sutton will speak on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, 9:30-10:30 a.m., at the Brooklyn College Women’s and Gender Studies Program talk, "Green Wave: Feminisms in the Global South." Dr. Sutton will speak on her topic, “Survival and Resistance: Testimonies from Women in Argentina.” Join the Zoom meeting.
Professor’s Research of Harriet Tubman’s Life and Legacy Spurs Bicentennial Project in Ms.
Janell Hobson was the editor and wrote the introduction to Tubman 200: The Harriet Tubman Bicentennial Project, a month-long commemoration through Ms. magazine, in print and an interactive online site.
Divisions in U.S. Echo Failures of Reconstruction, Novkov Writes in Washington Post
Professor and Interim Dean of Rockefeller College shared her thoughts on the political divide in the United States and its long-term ramifications for our democracy in an article published by The Washington Post.
Call for Applications: Funding Opportunity for Prospective WGSS MA Students
The Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is seeking candidates for a 2-year funding award to help coordinate the department’s Teaching Collective. The application deadline is February 15. In the first year, the awardee “shadows” the coordinator of the Teaching Collective, including participating in meetings of the Teaching Collective, in order to become familiar with the workings of the Collective. In the second year, the awardee receives a full graduate assistantship to coordinate the Teaching Collective and mentors the new Schulz awardee.
Prof. Rajani Bhatia Speaking at The Social, Ethical, and Legal Implications of Senate Bill 8 (Texas Abortion Law)
WGSS Associate Professor, Dr. Rajani Bhatia will be one of the featured speakers in a timely virtual panel on The Social, Ethical, and Legal Implications of Senate Bill 8 (Texas Abortion Law) on Monday, January 31 at 6 p.m. ET. Event hosted by Russell Sage College. The event is free, but advance registration is requested on the event website.