This year, the WGSS Department selected two fabulous graduating students to receive Academic Excellence Awards: Emily Ferrante and Arwen Fluit. Emily Ferrante maintained an impressive 3.97 GPA as a double major in Business Management and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. At Stony Brook, she weaved together her study of feminist theories and methodologies with her…Continue Reading 2023 Academic Excellence Award Winners: Arwen Fluit & Emily Ferrante
2023 Vivien Hartog Graduate Student Teaching Award Winner: Hafza Girdap
The WGSS Department is delighted to introduce Hafza Girdap as the 2023 winner of the Vivien Hartog Graduate Teaching Award. This award is named in honor of Vivien Hartog, a Women’s and Gender Studies graduate certificate student who died before she could complete her Ph.D. in Sociology. This award goes to the graduate student teacher…Continue Reading 2023 Vivien Hartog Graduate Student Teaching Award Winner: Hafza Girdap
2023 Graduation Speaker & WGSS Alum: J.T. Martin
This year, the WGSS Department welcomed J.T. Martin back to campus as the keynote speaker for our commencement ceremony. In 2014, J.T. Martin received their B.A. in WGSS – with specializations in both Gender and Social Change and Gender, Sexuality, and Public Health – after completing a brilliant honors senior thesis on the effects of…Continue Reading 2023 Graduation Speaker & WGSS Alum: J.T. Martin
A Healthcare Worker’s Breakthrough About the Pandemic By Magdalena Chwedczuk
“I have a story to tell. This story is about my personal breakthrough while working in the hospital from the perspective of watching just how many patients lost their lives, with no clear pattern of who this virus will take next. In reading this experience of a single moment while working in a COVID epicenter…Continue Reading A Healthcare Worker’s Breakthrough About the Pandemic By Magdalena Chwedczuk
Terry Alexander Award in WGSS: Zarya Shaikh
This award is in honor of Terry Alexander, the mother of Courtney Alexander, a Women’s Studies major who graduated from Stony Brook in 2006. Terry Alexander worked in the New York City public schools, she was an active member of the Brownsville Community Baptist Church, and she was a community activist with the Bed Stuy…Continue Reading Terry Alexander Award in WGSS: Zarya Shaikh
Raven Dorsey (WGSS ’16): Graduation speaker 2022!!
Check out Raven Dorsey’s amazing speech at #WGSSGraduation2022!! See below for Professor Diedrich’s introduction of Raven. Raven Dorsey is a doula and social worker born and raised in Wayne, PA. Raven completed her bachelor’s degree in Women, Gender and Sexuality studies with a concentration in gender, sexuality and public health from SUNY Stony Brook in…Continue Reading Raven Dorsey (WGSS ’16): Graduation speaker 2022!!
Vivien Hartog Graduate Student Teaching Award 2022: Ashley Barry
We are very pleased to announce the 2022 recipient of the Vivien Hartog Graduate Student Teaching Award: Ashley Barry. First, we want to introduce this award and Vivien Hartog. Then Ashley’s advisor, Lisa Diedrich, will introduce Ashley. This award is named in honor of Vivien Hartog, a Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies graduate certificate student…Continue Reading Vivien Hartog Graduate Student Teaching Award 2022: Ashley Barry