Congratulations to Lukas Bullock, whose chapter "Confrontations in Kentucky: Housing Justice in the Bluegrass State" will be appearing in the forthcoming book Dispatches from the Threshold (March 2025). The book chronicles the various ways that tenants fought for housing justice across the globe during Covid-19 and Bullock's chapter provides a first-hand account on the activism that flourished throughout central and eastern Kentucky.
Lee Mandelo's book The Woods All Black has been included on the year's NPR Recommended Reading/Books We Love list. Congratulations, Lee!
Congratulations to Snehal Sharma for being accepted to the conference "Authoritarianism, Law, and the Remaking of Society" this June.
Congratulations to Jingxue Zhang for being one of two recipients of the Feminist Formations/NWSA 2024 paper award for the paper, "Counter-Reproductive Memory: Chinese Young Women Against State Pronatalism".
Aria Halliday's newest book, Black Girls and How We Fail Them (UNC Press) will be released in Feb 2025: https://uncpress.org/book/9781469686110/black-girls-and-how-we-fail-them/
Aria Halliday was recently quoted in two articles, one in the Washington Post and the other in USA Today.
Congratulations to Elizabeth Williams, who was selected to be among six inaugural Lewis Honors College Faculty Fellows. You can read the UK Now story here.
GWS grad student, Shubhangi, recently wrote a review for "Speak Out!: The Brixton Black Women's Group" published by Verso Books and edited by Milo Miller, for the LSE Review of Books. You can read the review here.
Aria Halliday was recently interviewed for the leading paper in Denmark, Politiken. You can read the piece here
Check out some of Carol Mason's recent media/publications:
- Interviewed by Mary Reynolds, “How the Right Sets the Mood: Carol Mason on Sentimentalism and Resentment” in The Public Eye Magazine, Spring 2024 (Somerville, MA: Political Research Associates).
- “How Opposing Abortion Serves Populism,” in Still the Age of Populism? Re-examining Theories and Concepts, ed. Bernhard, Kreppel, and de la Torre (Routledge, 2024): 117-127.
- Featured in Charleston Gazette Mail retrospective analysis of 1974 Textbook Controversy. https://www.wvgazettemail.com/news/education/textbooks-to-tea-party-controversys-effects-felt-far-beyond-wv-border/article_c1a564e1-7553-5744-9d8f-673cb5ccef34.html
GWS held our annual awards day on Monday, April 29, 2024. Congratulations to all of our award winners!
- 2024 Joan Callahan Award for Scholastic Achievement: Blair Fraley & Mariana Escobedo de la Pena
- 2024 Kate Black Award for Activism: Sajida Megariaf
- 2024 Jan Oaks Feminist Creativity Award: Sophie DeCorte
- 2024 Space, Place, & Southern Grace Fund for Feminist Studies: Mariana Escobedo de la Pena
- GWS graduate certificate awardees: Adrian Godboldt
- 2024 OPSVAW Graduate Fellowship: Lee Mandelo & Snehal Sharma
Jenn Hunt has been promoted to the rank of Full Professor!
Frances Henderson has been granted tenure as Associate Professor!
Carol Mason was a finalist for the 2024 Carnegie Fellows Program.
Aria Halliday's "For the Love of Black Girls: Building Black Girlhood Studies as a Lifejacket" is being published in The Routledge Companion to Girls' Studies in April, 2024.
Lukas Bullock was selected as a recipient of the 2024 UK Outstanding Teaching award, in the TA category. Congrats, Lukas! See pictures below from the awards ceremony.
Jingxue Zhang & Lukas Bullock have been awarded a 2023-2024 College of Arts & Sciences Certificate for Outstanding Teaching. Congratulations!!!
Nelson Jiajie Meng won the 2024 graduate student paper prize at the Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies and was accepted to the 2024 Feminist Decolonial Politics Workship taking place June 4-7, 2024. Congratulations, Nelson!
Congratulations to Mariana Escobedo de la Pena for being awarded the 2024 Space, Place, and Southern Grace for Feminist Studies Scholarship.
Frances Henderson is the President of WGS-South. Congrats, Frances!
Anastasia Todd's book Cripping Girlhood is being published in May. Congratulations!!!
Elizabeth Williams' book Primitvie Normativitiy: Race, Sexuality, and Temporality in Colonial Kenya was published in Jan, 2024. Congrats, Elizabeth!
Congratulations to Charlie Zhang, who was funded for his project on "Transpacific Affective Circuits: Mapping Speculative Valuation of Life, Afterlife, and No-Life" by UNITE and was also chosen to attend the East-West Center's Summer Institute funded by the Luce Foundation.
Charlie Zhang was elected as Vice Presidents of the Southeast Regional Conference of the Association for Asian Studies. Congrats!
Jenn Hunt won the 2024 A&S Innovative Teaching Award. Congratulations!
