The GWS Program congratulates our Fall 2025 graduates! GWS Majors: Maria Lourenco Do Couto Sofia Lostaunau Lily Pavelich Kayla Washington GWS Minor: Michelle Nosal Social Justice Minor: Caesar Thompson We are so proud…
The GWS Program congratulates Dr. Akemi Nishida, Associate Professor of Gender Women’s Studies and Disability Studies, for being the recipient of the UIC Community Engagement Award 2025! We celebrate her feminist and justice-driven…
The GWS Program celebrates Dr. Norma Claire Moruzzi, Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Political Science, on her new book, a vital contribution to feminist scholarship that deepens our understanding of women’s…
The GWS Department congratulates Associate Professor Manoucheka Celeste for being the recipient of the 2025 National Communication Association’s Marsha Houston Award! We celebrate her dedicated and transformative work! Established by the NCA Executive…
The GWS Departments congratulates Dr. Esther Díaz Martín, Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies and Gender and Women Studies at UIC, on her recently published book! We celebrate her publication as…
Dr. Anna Guevarra, Founding Director and Professor in Global Asian Studies at UIC, and Dr. Gayatri Reddy, Associate Professor in Gender & Women’s Studies, Global Asian Studies, and Anthropology at UIC, recently published…
Dr. Barbara Ransby, Distinguished Professor in Gender & Women’s Studies, Black Studies, and History at UIC, recently published “Our mayor is standing on the right side of history. Chicago should stand with him”…
Dr. Norma Claire Moruzzi was promoted to full professor in Gender & Women’s Studies and Political Science at UIC! This accomplishment recognizes Dr. Moruzzi’s invaluable contributions to scholarship, teaching, mentorship, and community engagement.…
Dr. Cindy Tekobbe, Assistant Professor in Gender & Women’s Studies and Communication at UIC, has a new article published in the peer-reviewed, open access journal Social Media + Society. In “Turtle, Water, and…
Dr. Gayatri Reddy, Associate Professor, GWS and Anthropology, and Dr. Anna Guevarra, Professor, Global Asian Studies have co-authored an essay that has been published as part of the anthology, ‘Eating More Asian America’…
Deana Lewis, GWS graduate concentrator and alum, who is the host of Stories for Power (STOP) — a powerful podcast produced in collaboration with Just Practice Collaborative and Creative Interventions. STOP was created to…
Dr. Dez Brown, Lecturer of Gender and Women’s Studies and English; UIC Alum’s, debut collection of poetry, ‘they/she/he: ritual to forget your (un)becoming’, will be published by Host Publications in Fall 2025. More…
Dr. Dez Brown, Lecturer of Gender and Women’s Studies and English; UIC Alum, has been designated a 2025 Black Homeplaces DISCO (CO)LAB Microgrant Awardee from the Black Communication and Technology (BCaT) Lab at…
Dr. Cindy Tekobbe, Assistant Professor in Critical Feminist Science and Technology, Gender and Women’s Studies, and Communication, was featured on Spotify, episode 172 of The Big Rhetorical Podcast, where she discusses her latest…
Dr. Jennifer Brier, Professor in Gender and Women’s Studies and History, was recently featured on WBEZ’s show Reset for an episode titled “The Chicago woman who dared to wear pants.” To mark Women’s…
Dr. Terrion Williamson, Associate Professor, Black Studies and Gender & Women’s Studies, has secured a $500,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to establish the Black Midwest Justice Hub, which focuses on environmental justice and…
Dr. Dez Brown, GWS lecturer and alum, curated and edited a folio of creative writing and art titled “On Gaming,” which explores the video game genre through the lens of queer people of…
Dr. Jennifer Brier, Professor in Gender and Women’s Studies and History, was recently featured on WBEZ’s Curious City series for an episode titled “Chicago history is full of consequential years.” Dr. Brier shared…
Dr. Therese Quinn, Professor and Director of Museum and Exhibition Studies and GWS affiliated faculty member, was recently featured on WBEZ’s Reset program for an episode titled “A Spotlight on the Older Women…
We are thrilled to announce that Rose Tharakan, an undergraduate student pursuing her GWS minor, won the Capstone Innovation Award at UIC Honors College’s Fall 2024 Honors Research Symposium! Rose earned this recognition…
Dr. Elena R. Gutiérrez (she/her/hers; they/them/theirs), Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies; Latin American and Latino Studies at UIC, has co-edited an essential new book, Chicago Latina Trailblazers: Testimonios of Political Activism,…
Dr. Ronak K. Kapadia (he/him), Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at UIC and colleagues have a new book coming out this Fall! ‘Surviving The Long Wars’ co-edited by Aaron Hughes, Ronak…
Dr. Cindy Tekobbe, Assistant Professor of Critical Feminist Science and Technology in Gender and Women’s Studies and Communication at UIC has launched her new monograph, Indigenous Voices in Digital Spaces, which applies Indigenous…
Dr. Nadine Naber, Interim Director and Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies; Global Asian Studies; Anthropology has been recognized as a 2024 Freedom Scholar by the Marguerite Casey Foundation, recognizing her exceptional work…
Inspired by conversations with members of the Winthrop Family and research in the Dis/Placements Project archive, the artist Tia Etu conceptualized and painted this mural, titled “Block Party,” which is located in the…
Veronica Arreola, UIC’s Director of Hispanic-Serving Institution Initiatives, GWS alum, and CECSCO Honoree (2018), was featured in the UIC Today article “Director shares vision for UIC as a Hispanic-Serving Institution.” She reflected on…
GWS alum and lecturer Jen Ash published the pamphlet Mary Wilson: Black Women and Self Defense in the Jim Crow Era as part of the Sojourners for Justice series by Haymarket Books.
Rebecca Rivas and Esther Díaz Martín, Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Latin American and Latino Studies, co-authored a post about politics and lucha libre for Sounding Out!
GWS affiliated faculty member Beth E. Richie, GWS alum Ash Stephens, and Erica R. Meiners authored a piece for truthout about closing prisons in Illinois–rather than spending $900 million on them.
Nadine Naber, Interim Director and Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies and Professor of Global Asian Studies, was quoted in media stories about the protests surrounding the 2024 Democratic National Convention here in…
Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, Black Studies, and History Barbara Ransby talked to Democracy Now! about the historic, obviously contradictory nature of Vice President Kamala Harris accepting the Democratic presidential nomination earlier…
Liliana Macias, PhD Student in History & GWS Graduate Student Concentrator, was interviewed on Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices about her work with Raíces Chicago Story Coalition. Liliana co-founded Raíces, a non-profit that collaborates…
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced their election of Dr. Barbara Ransby to the Academy and warmly welcomed her as a new member. Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts…
Drs. Gayatri Reddy and Anna Guevarra and UIC Graduate Student Kennenth Allen draw on their work with the Dis/Placements Project to consider what the Bring Chicago Home Ballot Amendment would mean for the…
Nadine Naber, a professor of Arab American studies at the University of Illinois Chicago, said the lack of a MENA box made it difficult to track instances of racism and discrimination, both for…
Dr. Tekobbe highlights how “Suicide is a complex problem stemming from issues like mental illness, social isolation, housing insecurity, unemployment, bullying, financial troubles, and substance abuse. Addressing these issues in Native America is…
Over the last 2-3 months, the GWS faculty and students have been moving their work into the world in quite notable ways. We are overjoyed to share this news with you. Darius Bost…
Dr. Anna Guevarra and Dr. Gayatri Reddy received a Dr. Scholl’s Foundation Scholarship for Advancing Global Human Rights and Environmental Justice. In partnership with the Law School and School of Public Health, they…
“To discuss the history of Palestinian migration or displacement to the United States requires discussing the history of Israel. Otherwise, we are leaving out the root cause behind why there’s such a large…
“The following contribution celebrates, honors, and reflects on the bodies of work that create spaces of cariño in Carla Trujillo’s Citation1991 anthology, Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About. This piece is two-fold:it…
Ronak K. Kapadia is a queer cultural theorist of race, war, and empire. His research on the world-making potential of contemporary Arab, Muslim, and South Asian diasporic artists in response to the “Global…
On the 60th anniversary of the historic March On Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Dr. John D’Emilio, a professor emeritus of history and of women’s and gender studies at the University of Illinois…
Gender & Women’s Studies Professor Barbara Ransby and Dr. Angela Davis co-authored an important and timely op-ed in Truthout about the ongoing struggle to prevent the construction of a militarized police training facility…
Hyperallergic recently published a remarkable review by Lori Waxman, the Chicago Tribune’s primary art critic since 2009, of the Surviving the Long Wars Veteran Art Triennial. In addition to vividly describing individual pieces…
Congratulations to Dr. Ronak K. Kapadia, Associate Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies; Dr. Therese Quinn, Professor and Director of Museum and Exhibition Studies and GWS Affiliated Faculty Member; and Aaron Hughes, Adjunct…
GWS Associate Professor Ronak K. Kapadia recently was named as one of the 2022 UIC Scholars of the Year! Dr. Kapadia earned recognition as a Rising Star in the Humanities, Arts, Design, and…
Dr. Barbara Ransby, UIC professor of Black Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, and History; LAS Distinguished Professor; Director of the Social Justice Initiative; and MacArthur Endowed Chair at UIC joined Democracy Now! to…
Dr. Nadine Naber, UIC professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Global Asian studies, joined WBEZ’s “Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons” to discuss findings from a UIC Institute for Research on Race and Public…
Just published in the 20th anniversary special issue of Surveillance & Society, the open-access peer-reviewed flagship journal of surveillance studies; Professor Ronak K. Kapadia and Professor Toby Beauchamp (UIUC GWS) reflect on their…
A Chicago Reader story on the legacy of former Alderperson Helen Shiller and the past, present, and future of Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood highlights “Dis/Placements: A People’s History of Uptown, Chicago,” a project co-founded…
Congratulations to Dr. Nadine Naber for winning the 2022 Carl Bode-Norman Holmes Pearson Prize for lifetime achievement and outstanding contribution to American Studies! Dr. Nadine Suleiman Naber’s accomplishments are summarized in the nomination…
Dr. Akemi Nishida’s first book, Just Care: Messy Entanglements of Disability, Dependency, and Desire, was published by Temple University Press last week. Dr. Nishida is a Professor of Gender & Women’ Studies and…
A Chicago Tribune article about MAMAS (Mamas Activating Movements for Abolition and Solidarity) and the group’s work to integrate mother’s voices into social movements features a Q&A with the group’s co-directors, one of…
Four members of Gender & Women’s Studies faculty, two core and two affiliate, received Creative Activity Awards from the University of Illinois at Chicago: Gayatri Reddy and Anna Guevarra for their project “Evicted!…
Dr. Nadine Naber, Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Director of Undergraduate Studies, has published an opinion editorial in TruthOut. Read more here: truthout.org/articles/lets-work-for-global-anti-imperialist-reproductive-justice-this-mothers-day/.
“Finally, at noon of the last day of classes we will gather outside University Hall–rain or shine–to celebrate the life and leadership of our late great UICUF president Janet Smith; acknowledge and cheer…
Ronak Kapadia, GWS Professor and Director of the Graduate Interdepartmental Concentration, is the winner of a Dialogues on the Experience of War grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The project, titled…
GWS Professor Nadine Naber was highlighted as a YWomen Honoree during the month of March. Find out more information and watch the video here: https://www.ywca-ens.org/get-involved/events/ywomen/.
GWS Professor Gayatri Reddy, along with GWS affiliated faculty Anna Guevarra, has released the Queer Uptown virtual walking tour as part of their Dis/Placements Project. Find out more information and take the tour…
Dr. Barbara Ransby, Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, Black Studies, and History and MacArthur Endowed Chair, has received the Franz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association. Read more here:…
Nadine Naber, Professor of GWS and Global Asian Studies, has published her piece “Chicagoland Study Shows Why We Need a MENA Category in the U.S. Census” in The Chicago Reporter. Read more here:…
Dr. Barbara Ransby, UIC professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, Black Studies, and History; LAS Distinguished Professor; Director of the Social Justice Initiative; and MacArthur Endowed Chair at UIC, joined WBEZ’s “Reset with…
In a column published by The Guardian, Dr. Barbara Ransby, UIC Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, Black Studies, and History and MacArthur Endowed Chair, reflects on the impact and legacy of feminist…
Nadine Naber, UIC Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Global Asian Studies, has published the opinion piece “The U.S. Has a Torture Problem Too” in the Chicago Reporter. Read more here: https://www.chicagoreporter.com/the-u-s-has-a-torture-problem-too/.
Gayatri Reddy, UIC Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Anthropology, was featured in WGN Radio’s (AM 720) “Outside the Loop” segment with Anna Guevarra, UIC Director of Global Asian Studies and…
Dr. Nadine Naber, Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Global Asian Studies, has written an opinion column titled “The Racism of the U.S.A. Patriot Act, Then and Now” that has been featured…
Gayatri Reddy, Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Anthropology, is featured in the Chicago Reporter with Anna Gueverra, GWS Affiliate faculty and Director of the Global Asian Studies Program, regarding the…
Dr. Barbara Ransby, Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, Black Studies, and History, has been awarded the 2021 Women and Media Award from the Women’s Institute for Freedom of the Press! Read more…
Dr. Elena Gutierrez, UIC Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Latin American and Latino Studies, is featured in a Cicero Independiente story on Morton High School students seeking changes to uniform…
John D’Emilio, UIC professor emeritus of gender and women’s studies and history, is featured in a USA Today article on the importance of LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ youth learning about the contributions and achievements…
Gayatri Reddy, UIC Associate Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies and Anthropology, and Anna Guevarra, UIC Associate Professor and Director of Global Asian Studies, discuss urban removal in Uptown Chicago in the Chicago…
The Gender and Women’s Studies Director, and professor of History and Gender and Women’s Studies, Jennifer Brier joins the Office of Diversity as the faculty coordinator for UIC PACT (Partnerships for Anti-Racist Campus…
Gayatri Reddy, UIC Associate Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies and Anthropology, and Anna Guevarra, UIC Associate Professor and Director of Global Asian Studies, discussed their project that details the history of urban displacement in…
UIC Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Global Asian Studies Nadine Naber writes about gender violence in Afghanistan and new but belated attention being given to the rights of Afghan women. Read…
NPR affiliate WGBH Radio interviewed UIC Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies Barbara Ransby during a news story on efforts by Boston area Black activists to turn the movements against racism into organized…
The Chicago Tribune features a Q&A with Barbara Ransby, MacArther Endowed Chair and Professor of Black Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, and History at UIC. In addition to highlighting various recent honors Ransby…
ABC’s Good Morning America interviews Kishonna Gray, UIC Assistant Professor of Communication and Gender and Women’s Studies, in a segment examining racial harassment in the online gaming community. “Sexism or racism in those…
John D’Emilio, UIC Professor Emeritus of History and Gender and Women’s Studies, discusses his new book “Queer Legacies: Stories From Chicag’s LGBTQ Archives” in The Chicago Reader. Read more here: https://bit.ly/2HaRD44!
Acclaimed University of Illinois at Chicago historian and GWS professor Barbara Ransby has been named a Freedom Scholar, a select group of progressive academics who are at the “forefront of movements for economic…
University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Professor Barbara Ransby has been named a John D. MacArthur Endowed Chair. Ransby is a professor of History, Gender and Women’s Studies, and Black Studies, a College…
Dr. Kishonna Gray, UIC Assistant Professor of Communication and Gender & Women’s Studies, talks to WFSU Radio, the public media outlet of Tallahassee and Panama City, Florida, about allegations of sexual assault and…
Dr. Barbara Ransby, UIC professor of Black Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, and History, writes about the legacy of the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis and how the current generation of young activists,…
GWS and COMM Assistant Professor Kishonna Gray’s support of the new text-based Games and Online Harassment Hotline, launching August 8, is the subject of a story from Kotaku. Read more at: https://bit.ly/3eAOC7T
GWS, BLST, and History professor Barbara Ransby writes that the white left needs to embrace Black leadership and understand that today’s uprisings are what class struggle in the 21st century looks like. “The White…
Barbara Ransby, LAS Distinguished professor and director of the Social Justice Initiative, was a featured guest on WBEZ’s “Reset” where she discussed the Black Lives Matter movement and how history can inform present-day…
GWS Director and Professor of History Jennifer Brier has published an oped in the Washington Post on the importance of women’s history in times of crises. “We Can’t Forget Women as We Tell…
A recent edition of “Upfront” on KPFA Radio (Berekley, CA) included an interview with John D’Emilio, UIC professor emeritus of history and gender and women’s studies, who discussed California Gov. Gavin Newsom posthumously…
Dr. Jennifer Brier, Professor of History and Director of Gender & Women’s Studies has published an American Association of University Professors piece titled “LGBTQ Students and the Liberation of College Campuses”
Congratulations to several GWS core and affiliate faculty who have been named recipients of the UIC Awards for Creative Activity program. Recipients include: GWS Core Faculty and Associate Professor of Anthropology Dr. Gayatri…
“Woke Gaming: Digital Challenges to Oppression and Social Justice” edited by Dr. Kishonna Gray and Dr. David Leonard was named as an Outstanding Academic Title (OAT) by Choice Reviews. Every January Choice Magazine,…
Karla Solis, now alum of UIC with Bachelor’s degrees in Gender & Women’s Studies and Latin American and Latino Studies was featured as one of UIC’s Inspiring Grads. Congratulations on all your hard…
Congratulations to GWS’s own Dr. Ronak K. Kapadia on publishing “Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War” (2019, Duke University Press) Check out the book here: https://www.dukeupress.edu/insurgent-aesthetics Attend the Chicago…
Dr. Anna Guevarra, GWS affiliate faculty and Director of Global Asian Studies, was featured in UIC Today for her work with students on food and culture in GLAS 230, Cultural Politics of Asian…
Dr. Esther Diaz Martin has published a chapter titled “Aprender Bordando” in Voices from the Ancestors: Xicanx and Latinx Spiritual Expressions and Healing Practices (2019, University of Arizona Press)
Dr. Kishonna Gray, Assistant Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies and Communication at UIC was featured in an Op Ed in BET: The U.S. Video Game Industry Just Generated 43.4 Billion In Revenue…