Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship for Faculty Diversity - Fall 2024

Aug. 30, 2024

The Department of Women and Gender Studies (WGST) welcomes applications for the Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship for Faculty Diversity Program. For detailed program information, including eligibility requirements, the CU Â鶹ӰԺ application process and timeline, and the application portal, please see: /postdoctoralaffairs/current-postdocs/chancellors-postdoctoral-fellowship-diversity-program . It is a competitive application process, first at the...

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Dr. Samira Mehta shares new writing on Interfaith Voices and The Conversation

May 15, 2024

Dr. Mehta, director of Jewish Studies and associate professor of Women and Gender Studies has recently published two new pieces of writing. On gender studies topics, Mehta wrote, " Words Count: From "Woman" to "Mother," "Embryo" to "Child" " for Internfaith Voices which discusses religious language in reproductive history. On...

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Dr. Leila Gómez Honored with College Scholar Award

Dec. 14, 2023

Dr. Gómez has been selected as a recipient of the College Scholar Award by the College of Arts and Sciences as an acknowledgement of her "scholarship, creative accomplishments and promise." Congratulations Dr. Gómez!

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Special Issue: Kashmiri Futures Co-edited by Dr. Misri Available Now

Nov. 22, 2023

" Kashmiri Futures ," a special issue of English Language Notes edited by Dr. Deepti Misri , Dr. Mohamad Junaid, and Dr. Ather Zia is available now. This special issue inaugurates a scholarly and creative conversation that seeks to detach the future of Kashmir from the narrative, aesthetic, and political...

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Announcing the Janet Jacobs Honors Colloquium!

Nov. 16, 2023

The Janet Jacobs Honors Colloquium is an annual event, hosted by the department of Women and Gender Studies (WGST) and the Arts and Sciences Honors Program, to celebrate students whose honors theses, in any discipline, thematically address the fields of WGST and LGBTQ studies. Each spring 3-7 students from across...

Sarah Napier Honored with 2023 Creative Activism Award

May 16, 2023

The Women and Gender Studies Creative Activism award recognizes outstanding undergraduate creative works that raise awareness around issues of equity, such as race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender identity. It is designed to help foster an inclusive and welcoming campus climate for students of all backgrounds and those historically underrepresented at...

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Delaney Hartmann Honored with 2023 Creative Activism Award

May 16, 2023

The Women and Gender Studies Creative Activism award recognizes outstanding undergraduate creative works that raise awareness around issues of equity, such as race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender identity. It is designed to help foster an inclusive and welcoming campus climate for students of all backgrounds and those historically underrepresented at...

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Routledge Handbook of Critical Kashmir Studies

Nov. 16, 2022

Â鶹ӰԺ the author : Deepti Misri is an Associate Professor in the Women and Gender Studies Department at the Â鶹ӰԺ. Book description: The Routledge Handbook of Critical Kashmir Studies presents emerging critical knowledge frameworks and perspectives that foreground situated histories and resistance practices to challenge colonial and...

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Impossible Domesticity: Travels in Mexico

Nov. 2, 2021

Â鶹ӰԺ the author: Leila Gómez is an Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies, and director of the Latin American Studies Center at the Â鶹ӰԺ. Book description: Travelers from Europe, North, and South America often perceive Mexico as a mythical place onto which they project their own...

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Beyond Chrismukkah: The Christian-Jewish Interfaith Family in the United States

Oct. 1, 2019

Drawing on ethnographic and historical sources, Samira K. Mehta provides a fascinating analysis of wives, husbands, children, and their extended families in interfaith homes; religious leaders; and the social and cultural milieu surrounding mixed marriages among Jews, Catholics, and Protestants.

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