Year: 2020

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Breonna Taylor and Tony McDade: Why I Have Become Indebted to My WGSS Education

This post is from Elizabeth Varghese, who graduated in May with BA in WGSS and a BS in Biology. Elizabeth received a Provost’s Award for Academic Excellence and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She will be an MD/MPH candidate at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook in the fall. I started my Women’s,…Continue Reading Breonna Taylor and Tony McDade: Why I Have Become Indebted to My WGSS Education

Congratulations, WGSS 2020 Graduates: We are so proud of you!

Professor Nancy Hiemstra congratulates the WGSS 2020 graduates on their achievement and reads from Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. Congrats WST Majors & Minor! Woohoo! You are a truly amazing group of students, for how hard you have worked, challenges that you have faced, and all that you have accomplished. Thank you for diving…Continue Reading Congratulations, WGSS 2020 Graduates: We are so proud of you!

Vivien Hartog Graduate Student Teaching Award: Annu Daftuar, Val Moyer, & Melis Umut

We are very pleased to announce the 2020 recipients of the Vivien Hartog Graduate Student Teaching Award: Annu Daftuar, Val Moyer, and Melis Umut. Congratulations to Annu, Val, and Melis!  First, we want to tell you a bit about this award and Vivien Hartog. Then, the advisors of the three graduate students will present this…Continue Reading Vivien Hartog Graduate Student Teaching Award: Annu Daftuar, Val Moyer, & Melis Umut

Well wishes from WGSS faculty to the WGSS class of 2020

Several WGSS faculty have created celebratory messages to the WGSS class of 2020 for the #WGSSGraduation2020 blog. Here are contributions from Professors Victoria Hesford, Liz Montegary, and Francesca Spedalieri. Enjoy! Professor Hesford reads Emily Dickinson’s poem “‘Hope’ is a thing with feathers.”   Professor Montegary shares some messages for the “graduated feminists!” And Professor Spedalieri…Continue Reading Well wishes from WGSS faculty to the WGSS class of 2020