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"Women in political science don’t publish in the top journals nearly as much as men. While women make up 40 percent of graduate students and 37 percent of tenure-track faculty, they account for only 20 percent of the bylines in political science’s top three peer-reviewed journals.

Professor David Eng's new co-authored book, Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans, was reviewed in the New Yorker. Read the full review here.

(Note: this post was updated on October 14, 2019)
The Alice Paul Center and GSWS Program are looking to hire a Graduate Student Associate to help with our media and outreach efforts. The exact duties are flexible, but may include: managing website content, taping and/or editing our podcast series, and conducting outreach regarding events. The ideal candidate will be able to attend approximately six evening events throughout the academic year. Please see our website for samples of media - 

The Alice Paul Center is hiring a Graduate Student Research Associate to help develop a new initiative: The APC Trans, Non-binary and Gender Nonconforming Oral History Archive. This community-campus partnership aims to center the voices of trans people by systematically recording their stories, as well as those of the people closest to them using oral history methods.

The Alice Paul Center is hiring a Community Liaison to help develop a new initiative: The APC Trans, Non-binary and Gender Nonconforming Oral History Archive. This community-campus partnership aims to center the voices of trans people by systematically recording their stories, as well as those of the people closest to them using oral history methods. The unique archive created by these histories will capture a historic and transformative moment in gender identity, embodiment and experience, and provide a valuable resource for scholars and the community.

The Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine’s Lisa Ruth Rand, a GSWS Graduate Certificate recipient, recently won one of three Perry World House Emerging Scholars Global Policy Prizes. The $10,000 prize was awarded for Rand's work "Egalitarian Orbits: A New Regime for Geostationary Space," which looks at the challenges of governing geostationary space — the ideal environment for communications satellites — fairly and sustainably, and proposes reforms to the United Nations' Outer Space Treaty of 1967.

The Alice Paul Center was awarded a two-year Making a Difference in Diverse Communities grant to support the development of an oral history archive which will center the voices of trans people and the people closest to them. APC is partnering with Penn's LGBT Center and Kislak Center, and the William Way LGBT Community Organization in Philadelphia.

Dalmacio Dennis Flores (GSWS Executive Board Member and Nursing) found that even as parents become savvier in having conversations about sexual health with their children, departing from gender stereotypes and embracing more accepting attitudes, factors beyond the home still affect the message parents convey and their child hears. 
 

David L. Eng (GSWS Core Faculty & English) highlighted in Omnia about his new coauthored book illuminating the lives and struggles of Asian-American students. “Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian-Americans” draws on 20 years of experience working with Asian and Asian-American students, with the classroom serving as “social barometers of the changing patterns of immigration, assimilation, and racialization.”