Rising Scholars Postdoctoral Fellowship Program | The Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Review of applications will begin April 12, 2021.
Rising Scholar Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality
Women, Gender & Sexuality is an interdisciplinary department in which students study gender and sexualities with an emphasis on transnational perspectives.
The Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality invites you to join us for our Spring Colloquium Schedule
The Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality invites you to join us for our Spring Colloquium
All talks will be virtual. Please contact wgsuva@virginia.edu for zoom links
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Wednesday, March 10
3:30-5 p.m.
Tiffany Lethabo King
Associate Professor
African-American Studies
Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Georgia State University
Fall 2021
WGS 2100 Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies
Matthew Chin
Summer 2021
Session I
WGS 3340 Transnational Feminism
Laura Ornee
J-Term 2021
WGS 3210 Gender, Sport and Film
Bonnie Hagerman
Scholarships for LGBTQ+ Students!
Over $100,000 in scholarships are available this semester from the Serpentine Society, UVA’s LGBTQ+ Alumni organization!
All applications are due by Sunday, March 14th, at 11:59 P.M. This webpage provides an overview of all three open scholarships, and summaries are below.
Old-Age Justice and Black Feminist History: Sojourner Truth’s and Harriet Tubman’s Intersectional Legacies
by Corinne T. Field
Recent Publications by Assistant Professor Matthew Chin
In collaboration with Caribbean International Resource Network, Matthew Chin coordinated the Digital Collection Launch of the Jamaica Gaily News (1977-1984)
In collaboration with Caribbean International Resource Network, Matthew Chin coordinated the Digital Collection Launch of the Jamaica Gaily News (1977-1984), the publication of the anglophone Caribbean's first self-proclaimed gay activist organization, the Gay Freedom Movement in Jamaica.
Racializing Emasculation: An Intersectional Analysis of Queer Men’s Evaluations of Sexual Assault
Please join us in celebrating Doug Meyer’s recent publication in the highly regarded journal Social Problems just this past October.
See below for the citation and link to the piece. Congratulations, Doug!
Doug Meyer. 2020. “Racializing Emasculation: An Intersectional Analysis of Queer Men’s Evaluations of Sexual Assault.” Social Problems. https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spaa053
WGS Department Remembers Lecturer Abigail S. Arnold
The WGS department is sorry to share that Abby Arnold, who was a lecturer at WGS, died recently after a long illness. The obituary from the Daily Progress is below:
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/dailyprogress/name/abigail-arnold-obituary?pid=197595805
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In the News
Congratulations Professor Hagerman... for your contract with UVa Press!
"Skimpy Coverage: Sports Illustrated and the Construction of the Female Athlete" coming next spring!
Led by WGS affiliates David Getsy and Cole Rizki, the working group will “have two main foci: first, to discuss the role of global history within transgender studies and, second, to encourage development of curricular and research activities in transgender studies at the University of Virginia.