So, what's a straight white guy doing as chair of Women Studies?
Funny you should ask—so did NPR, most of the local news papers, FOX news and a host of blogging sites. And it's an excellent question requiring more space than you may want to read. So I'm going to offer a short response and then some links to more lengthy discussions. [read more...]
Faculty News
On Saturday, September 26th, Sasha Welland took part in a symposium in on Gender, Identity, and the Crossing of Cultures in Contemporary Chinese Art and Media at Columbia College in Chicago. An audio recording of her presentation, titled "The experience of curating Cruel/Loving Bodies, an exhibition of Chinese female artists", can be found on the Chicago Public Radio website here.
For more Faculty News click HERE
Graduate News
Women Studies graduate student Martha Gonzalez performed at the 2009 Duwamish River Festival as part of the Fandango Project at the Youngstown Arts Center.
Link to the breif article in the West Seattle Herald HERE. More information on the Fandango Project can be found HERE.
More Graduate News
Undergraduate News
Harriet Dumba (Women Studies 2007) has been named one of four Women of Inspiration by the Seattle Storm Women's Basketball Team. The Storm's fourth annual Women of Inspiration will be honored during a special halftime ceremony on Saturday, August 22 when the Storm hosts the Indiana Fever at 7:00 p.m.
From the Women of Inspiration announcement: Harriet Dumba grew up in Southern Sudan and was forced to move as a young child to refugee camps in Uganda and Kenya. In 1995, at age 15, she was resettled to the U.S. and became a naturalized citizen, attending Garfield High School and the University of Washington, where she earned a Masters of Public Health and Community Medicine. A certified HIV/AIDS instructor with the American Red Cross, Dumba has worked for the United Nationals High Commission for Refugees in Southern Sudan, and is committed to creating leadership around HIV/AIDS prevention in war-torn areas. As co-founder of the Southern Sudanese Women's Association with Agnes Oswaha, Dumba helps newly resettled Sudanese adjust to life in the U.S.
For more information please visit the Storm's Women of Inspiriation web page.
Departmental News & Events
The Brown Bag Event for Winter quarter is: Indigenous Feminisms, featuring Rachel Chapman and Deana Dartt-Newton. We'll be in EEB 403 at noon on December 4th.
For more information please contact Elaine Haig-Widner at elaineh@u.washington.edu
Click on the following links to be taken to that section:
For a full list of our Doctoral Graduates, their dissertation titles, and other information, please click HERE
Recent Women Studies Ph.D.s include:
10/10 Karen Rosenberg Ph.D.
9/2 Alka Arora
7/30 Dipika Nath
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