The Department of Women and Gender Studies (WGST) welcomes applications for the Chancellor鈥檚 Postdoctoral Fellowship for Faculty Diversity Program. For detailed program information, including eligibility requirements, the CU 麻豆影院 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 department level and then the university level.

To be considered as a ranked departmental nominee, materials (as listed below) need to be submitted to the Department of Women and Gender Studies by October 1, 2024. Please note this is one month ahead of the required university deadline of November 1.

Internal Application for the Department of Women and Gender Studies

Applicants should begin the process by contacting a possible mentor among the WGST faculty as soon as possible. If the WGST faculty member agrees to consider mentorship, the applicant should send them the follow materials by October 1st:

• Curriculum Vitae (CV)
• Personal Statement (guidelines on the university's )
• Writing Sample

The WGST faculty will review applicant dossiers in order to rank all applicants. We are only able to nominate the very top-ranked candidates to the university review committee. Applicants will be advised of the department鈥檚 decision by October 18. The 麻豆影院 applicant deadline is November 1.

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This special issue inaugurates a scholarly and creative conversation that seeks to detach the future of Kashmir from the narrative, aesthetic, and political frames of powerful nation-states that have sought to keep Kashmiris confined to a long and seemingly enduring colonial present. It seeks, moreover, to inspire radical imaginations of possible futures in danger of foreclosure by occupying states, and asks us to think about occupation as a temporal as well as spatial regime.

Check out the special issue and read the , made freely available.

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The Janet Jacobs Honors Colloquium is named after Professor Janet Jacobs in honor of her more than thirty-five years as an esteemed member of the WGST department and her 8 years as Program Director for the Arts and Science Honors Program. Professor Janet Jacobs is Professor of Distinction in Women and Gender Studies. Her research focuses on ethnic and religious violence, gender, mass trauma, and collective memory. She is author of numerous books and journal articles, including Divine Disenchantment: Deconverting from New Religions (1989), Victimized Daughters: Incest and the Development of the Female Self (1994), Hidden Heritage: The Legacy of the Crypto-Jews (2002), Memorializing the Holocaust: Gender, Genocide and Collective Memory (2010), and The Holocaust Across Generations: Trauma and Its Inheritance Among Descendants of Survivors (2016). Her current work is on genocide, collective memory, and counter memorialization. She is the recipient of numerous book awards and in 2005 she received the Hazel Barnes Prize, the most prestigious single faculty award granted by the 麻豆影院.

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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 the university. Students from across campus are invited to submit creative works for consideration by a committee of faculty, staff, and students from our department.

P.Ink P.Elvis (V.I) by Sarah Napier

Artist's Statement:

P.Ink P.Elvis was performed for the first time on February 23-26 for CU Dance Department's Open Space. Attached is the program notes written by me as a way for you to engage in this work. This is a version of P.Ink P.Elvis and there will be many more versions to exist. It is done. It is on going. It is my queer bar.

Sarah Napier graduated with honors and a double major in neuroscience and dance in 2023. 

Congratulations Sarah!

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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 the university. Students from across campus are invited to submit creative works for consideration by a committee of faculty, staff, and students from our department.

The Dagger by Delaney Hartmann

Artist's Statement:

Delaney wrote the short story 鈥淭he Dagger鈥� as an allegory about how matrilineal suffering is passed down through generations between mothers and daughters. She was influenced by the feminist horror genre while writing this piece, specifically the works of Shirley Jackson, Margaret Atwood, and Julia Armfield. She also wrote this story in acknowledgement of the strength that her sister, mother and grandmothers embody each day.

Delaney graduated in 2024 with degrees in Women and Gender Studies and Political science. She is a recipient of the Outstanding Colorado Student Award, the Women and Gender Studies Creative Activism Award, the Andermarch Cicogna Award, and a Truman Scholarship finalist for CU 麻豆影院.  

Congratulations Delaney!

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麻豆影院 the author: Deepti Misri is an Associate Professor in the Women and Gender Studies Department at the 麻豆影院.

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 postcolonial forms of governance and state building. It politicizes discourses of nationalism, patriotism, democracy, and liberalism, and it questions how these dominant globalist imaginaries and discourses serve institutionalized power, create hegemony, and normalize domination. In doing so, the handbook situates Critical Kashmir Studies scholarship within global scholarly conversations on nationalism, sovereignty, indigenous movements, human rights, and international law.

Reviews:

"This crucial, timely volume not only explicates the political situation of Kashmir, it offers a paradigm-shifting example of place as relational praxis. From the critique of area studies and state-centric analytics to the attention to the ethics of knowledge and production, the editors and contributors make a trenchant case for why Kashmir both illuminates and connects with numerous other liberation movements around the world. As such, The Routledge Handbook of Critical Kashmir Studies is a brilliant envisioning of scholarship as a solidarity that draws together and transforms indigenous, decolonial, intersectional and transnational thought."

-Jasbir K. Puar, Professor and Graduate Director of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University; author of "Terrorist Assemblages" and "The Right to Maim."

"This pathbreaking interdisciplinary volume--grounded in feminist principles that are at once anti-colonial, anti-occupation, and anti-caste --brilliantly speaks to the urgency of self-determination for Kashmir. Challenging statist and area studies frameworks that typically privilege international relations and security studies, this rich collection features crucial epistemological interventions that enable the decolonial knowledge production necessary for political liberation--the best in critical Kashmir Studies."

- J. K膿haulani Kauanui, Professor of American Studies and an affiliate faculty member in Anthropology at Wesleyan University; author of 'Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism.'

Publication date: September 2022

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Book description:  Travelers from Europe, North, and South America often perceive Mexico as a mythical place onto which they project their own cultures鈥� desires, fears, and anxieties. G贸mez argues that Mexico鈥檚 role in these narratives was not passive and that the environment, peoples, ruins, political revolutions, and economy of Mexico were fundamental to the configuration of modern Western art and science. This project studies the images of Mexico and the ways they were contested by travelers of different national origins and trained in varied disciplines from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. It starts with Alexander von Humboldt, the German naturalist whose fame sprang from his trip to Mexico and Latin America, and ends with Roberto Bola帽o, the Chilean novelist whose work defines Mexico as an 鈥渙asis of horror.鈥� In between, there are archaeologists, photographers, war correspondents, educators, writers, and artists for whom the trip to Mexico represented a rite of passage, a turning point in their intellectual biographies, their scientific disciplines, and their artistic practices.

Publication date: October 2021

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Book description:  The rate of interfaith marriage in the United States has risen so radically since the sixties that it is difficult to recall how taboo the practice once was. How is this development understood and regarded by Americans generally, and what does it tell us about the nation鈥檚 religious life? 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.

Mehta鈥檚 eye-opening look at the portrayal of interfaith families across American culture since the mid-twentieth century ranges from popular TV shows, holiday cards, and humorous guides to 鈥淐hrismukkah鈥� to children鈥檚 books, young adult fiction, and religious and secular advice manuals. Mehta argues that the emergence of multiculturalism helped generate new terms by which interfaith families felt empowered to shape their lived religious practices in ways and degrees previously unknown. They began to intertwine their religious identities without compromising their social standing. This rich portrait of families living diverse religions together at home advances the understanding of how religion functions in American society today.

Publication date: March 2018

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