SUMMER 2023 UNDERGRADUATE COURSES
WGS 2100 Intro to Gender & Sexuality Studies
Lisa Speidel
Lisa Speidel
Matthew Chin, Lisa Speidel
Matthew Chin
Lisa Speidel
WGS is pleased to announce that we have been awarded significant new support from one of our founding donors. We are very grateful for this donation, which was made “in acknowledgment of amazing achievements and to support continued growth.”
ANNOUNCEMENT - RISING SCHOLARS POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP
November 7, 2022
Rising Scholars Postdoctoral Fellowship
Review of applications will begin January 16, 2023.
Please join the WGS Department in congratulating Professor Corinne Field on the release of her latest book, The Global History of Black Girlhood. A description of the book follows, and you can find out more here! Congrats, Professor Field!
In the new millennium, the storied return of the People’s Republic of China to the African continent and African migration to China have engendered novel configurations of global racial capitalism and empire. With new flows between China and South Africa also come new encounters, desires, and anxieties and changing ideas about racial Blackness, Chineseness, and whiteness. In this talk, Dr. Huang draws on ethnographic fieldwork on Chinese migration to South Africa to consider Han Chinese racial formations and anti-Black racism through intimacies, proximities, gender, and sexuality.
The Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality affirms the importance of respecting and supporting all students, faculty, and staff at the University of Virginia, including those of us who are transgender, nonbinary, or gender questioning. We believe that maintaining the excellence of the Univer