Category: RIGs

Caribbean Women Healers project completes first phase

On April 22, the Caribbean Women Healers: Decolonizing Knowledge in AfroIndigenous Traditions Digital Humanities Project launched the first phase of their website to an enthusiastic online audience. The project’s social media reached around 5,000 people in one day and RSVPs…

Applications now open for 2020-21 Research Interest Groups

CSWS offers small grants to faculty and graduate students to organize interdisciplinary Research Interest Groups (RIGs) and working groups that explore and examine the complex nature of gender identities and inequalities for the academic year. RIGs provide participants the opportunity…

Mam women flee rural violence, seek gendered justice

New journal article by Lynn Stephen Fleeing rural violence: Mam women seeking gendered justice in Guatemala and the U.S. by Lynn Stephen. Journal of Peasant Studies, 46(2): 229-257. January 2019. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2018.1534836 Dr. Stephen’s uses the concept of gendered embodied structures…

CSWS welcomes Hypatia team

Pictured is the Hypatia editorial team.

New Editorial Team Chosen for Hypatia (adapted from the Department of Philosophy website)—After an extensive search, a new editorial team for Hypatia has been enthusiastically and unanimously accepted by the search committee and the newly reconstructed nonprofit board. The new…

Native American Studies Colloquium: book release celebration for Lani Teves

Pictured is Stephanie Teves.

Prof. Lani Teves’ book release, Defiant Indigeneity: The Politics of Hawaiian Performance The Department of Ethnic Studies and Native Studies Program invite you to a special edition of the Native American Studies Colloquium Series to celebrate the publication of Lani Teves’ new…