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Lorena Aguilera Santana, a double-major in women and gender studies and sociology, has been chosen as one of this year's Jacob Van Ek Scholars, awarded by the College of Arts and Sciences at CU Â鶹ӰԺ for outstanding academic achievement and contributions to the university.

We were honored to host Inderpal Grewal, professor and chair in the Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University, for a presentation in the Cottage on March 13th. Grewal is an influential feminist scholar who helped found the field of transnational feminist cultural studies.

In her latest book, Dr. Lorraine Bayard de Volo focuses on previously unexamined narratives of war, using gender as a category of analysis to describe both the historical place of women in war, and how gender plays into the tactics and cultural constructs of war.

100 years ago, Lucile Berkeley Buchanan became the first African American woman to earn a degree at CU Â鶹ӰԺ -- but she was not allowed to accept her diploma on stage with her classmates, and not included in the yearbook. Born in 1884 to former slaves Lavina and James Fenton Buchanan, Lucile earned her degree in German with a minor in English and became a teacher -- living to the age of 105, without ever receiving recognition of her academic achievements from CU Â鶹ӰԺ.

Specializing in the intersections between race and gender, the Women and Gender Studies department is proud to introduce assistant professor Kristie Soares, who joined our faculty in January. Soares explores issues of queerness in Caribbean and Latinx communities both through her research and work as a performance artist.

The Department of Women and Gender Studies is pleased to announce that Maisam Alomar will join our department faculty as an assistant professor in fall 2018. Alomar is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego.