From the Chair
Dear Friends of Women and Gender Studies,
WGST continues to grow! I鈥檓 excited to announce that this fall we will welcome yet another new faculty. We teamed with the Program in Jewish Studies to hire Assistant Professor Samira Mehta, who is currently teaching at Albright College in Pennsylvania. She arrives at CU 麻豆影院 having already published a book, . You can read more exciting news in this newsletter: student, alum, and faculty profiles; a student article on campus sexual assault; info on internships and commencement; and faculty updates.
Thank you for your continued support of Women and Gender Studies. Don鈥檛 forget, we鈥檇 love to hear from you!
Sincerely,
Lorraine Bayard de Volo
Chair & Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies
WGST Faculty Updates
Emmanuel David's August 2018 article 鈥溾 recently received the Society for Queer Asian Studies Best Article Award. The SQAS prize committee wrote that they "unanimously agreed that 'Transgender Archipelagos' demonstrates what transgender studies and area studies can do for each other," and noted that "the essay鈥檚 framing archipelagic perspective is particularly productive and promising in the many iterations of 鈥榯rans鈥 that the essay engages - transnational, transatlantic, transpacific, transindigenous, and transhemispheric."
Alison Jaggar gave the annual Dewey lecture at the Central Division meetings of the American Philosophical Association in February, traditionally given by a prominent and senior philosopher and published each year in the Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association. Jaggar's article, 鈥溾,鈥 was selected by the journal, Ethics and International Affairs as one of the 100 best articles in its 100 years of publishing.
Celeste Montoya has received the the Western Political Science Association Award for Best Paper in Latino/a Politics for her paper "De Guerreras y Puentes: Legacies of Chicana Feminism." Her co-authored article "" was recognized as the most read article for the European Journal of Politics and Gender in 2018. She is also the recipient of a CARTSS Scholar Grant for her new project on Latina/x Activism. Dr. Montoya traveled to the University of Florida this spring to give a talk "The Consequences of Co-option: Rising Populism and the EU Efforts to Combat Gender Violence." She also served on the Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity in Academics (IDEA) Plan authoring and revision committee. She presented a lecture "" in early April at the 麻豆影院 Museum of Contemporary Art, in connection with their current exhibition which runs through May 27.
Kristie Soares authored the book chapter 鈥淟atin Lovers, Chismosas, and Gendered Discourses of Power: The Role of the Subjective Narrator in Jane the Virgin.鈥 which is forthcoming in Decolonizing Latinx Masculinity, edited by Arturo Aldama and Frederick Aldama. Her book review 鈥鈥 was published in the Los Angeles Review of Books in February.
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