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Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies

Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies

What's new in GWSS?

New publication!

Richa Nagar and Amanda Swarr would like to share the news of the publication of their co-edited volume, Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis (SUNY Press). The volume is the product of a conference co-hosted by our department in 2006 and features the work of a number of feminist scholars with current or past affiliations with our department, including Sam Bullington, Danielle Bouchard, Ananya Chatterjea, Jigna Desai, Diane Detournay, and Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley. For more details visit:
http://www.sunypress.edu/p-4934-critical-transnational-feminist.aspx

Book awards

Congratulations to Regina Kunzel, whose book Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of American Sexuality was most recently awarded the Modern Language Association's Alan Bray Memorial Book Award for best book in lesbian, gay, or queer studies in literature and cultural studies. Also, Regina's book received the Bonnie and Vern L. Bullough Award from the Foundation for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, as well as winning the Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies. In addition to winning the Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies, Regina's book was named a finalist for the John Hope Franklin Prize, given to the best book published in American Studies in 2009. Congratulations on all your success, Reg!

Time in Sweden

Inspiring work from Naomi Scheman, who has finished the first of a three years as a visiting researcher at the Umeå Centre for Gender Studies at Umeå University, in Sweden. Naomi spent a month there after the conclusion of the Spring 2009 semester and two months during the Fall. She also taught a four-day intensive workshop on her own work for students from around Europe, and she presented a paper on pain with an Umeå colleague in Helsinki. Last, but not least, she gae a talk there on "The Sociality of Stones: Toward a Feminist Metaphysics".

Book Review Editor

Congratulations, Amy Kaminsky, on being named book review editor of the interdisciplinary journal, Feminist Formations.

A World of Difference: Encounteing and Contesting Development

The year 2009 saw the conclusion of a five year long mega-project that Richa Nagar undertook with three colleagues at the University of Minnesota:
Eric Sheppard, Philip Porter, David Faust, and Richa Nagar. 2009. A World of Difference: Encountering and Contesting Development. New York: Guilford Press. 665 pp.

Congratulations, and thank you

Congratulations are in place for Doctor Rachel Raimist! Dr. Raimist obtained her doctorate degree with her dissertation, Grindin' the Walls to Dust: Feminist Media Praxis. The department thanks all of Dr. Raimist's hard work and dedication, including the implementation of the Rachel Raimist Feminist Media Center. Dr. Raimist has now joined the Faculty at The Telecommunication and Film Department at the University of Alabama.

Off to a Great Start

We extend our sincere congratulations to incoming graduate students, Reina Rodriguez and Brittany Lewis, on becoming the recipients to the Diversity of Views & Experiences (DOVE) Fellowship.

Additional congratulations are in place for Reina, whose commitment to the interdisciplinary study of the global south in the context of global change has earned her the prestigious International Center for the Study of Global Change (ICGC) Fellowship.

Congratulations

Our sincere congratulations go out to graduate student Papori Bora, whose work has earned her the International Center for the Study of Global Change (ICGC) Fellowship.

Baby on Board

We would like to sincerely congratulate graduate student Yeonbo Jeong on her new journey as a mother, as well as welcoming baby Alice to the world!

Congratulations

Congratulations to graduate student Charlotte Albrecht on being awarded the prestigious Francis Maria Fellowship by the Immigration History Research Center (IHRC) at the University of Minnesota.

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