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Three 2018 GSWS Majors Graduating Phi Beta Kappa
Congratulations to Meghana Nallajerla, Hillary Nguyen, and Kerry Schellenberger, GSWS seniors graduating Phi Beta Kappa. The GSWS Program and the APC wish them, and all seniors graduating this year, the best in their future endeavors!
GSWS Undergraduate Award Winners Announced
The GSWS Program is pleased to announce this year's undergraduate award winners, Kerry Schellenberger and Alisa Feldman.Schellenberger won the Lydna S. Hart Award in Sexuality Studies, an award dedicated to the memory of Lynda S. Hart, a groundbreaking scholar in feminist performance studies and queer theory.
Monique Perry awarded GSE Excellence in Service to Colleagues & Students
Congratulations to Monique Perry, APC Graduate Student Assistant, on her Penn GSE Student Government Commendation for Excellence in Service to Colleagues & Students. Monique will start the doctoral program in GSE in the fall.
Felicity Paxton Wins Provost's Award for Teaching Excellence
Congratulations to Litty Paxton (Director, Penn Women's Center & GSWS Affiliated Faculty) on her Provost's Award for Teaching Excellence.
QPenn, Penn's annual week-long LGBTQ cultural celebration, is also LGBTQ Awareness Week
Join QPenn for a week of discussions, shows and other events, including Amir Ashour on 3/20 discussing his experience as the founder of IraQueer, Iraq's first LGBT+ organization, and his experiences as an openly gay man in both Iraq and the US.
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Michelle Nwokedi Makes Ivy League Women’s Basketball History
Congratulations to Michelle Nwokedi, APC/GSWS Media Assistant. Michelle made Ivy League women’s basketball history when she became the first player in Ivy League women’s basketball history to amass 1,000 points, 1,000 rebounds, and 300 blocks. Read the full story in the Current.
Solving the “Very Complicated Puzzle” of How Humanity Lives: A National Humanities Center Podcast with Nancy Hirshmann, GSWS Core Faculty
As a 21-year-old senior in college, Nancy Hirschmann encountered—and was forever changed by—German philosopher Hegel’s notoriously difficult passages in The Phenomenology of Spirit. Suddenly, she “broke through the wall” of the concept of the “master-slave dialectic” and its notion of consciousness and recognition. The act of reading a text, deciphering it, and understanding how it translates into a significant meaning kindled Hirschmann’s engagement with political theory.
GSWS Graduate Certificate Student SaraEllen Strongman Publishes in Feminist Theory
SaraEllen Strongman, PhD Candidate in Africana Studies and 2016 GSWS graduate certificate recipient, has an article in the latest issue of the journal Feminist Theory. The article, titled "'Creating justice between us': Audre Lorde's theory of the erotic as coalitional politics in the women's movement," explores how interracial sex and/or sexual attraction might be an integral part of cross-racial feminist work.
Bearing Witness: Four Days in West Kingston exhibit featured in The Inquirer
Deborah Thomas (Anthropology and Director of APC & GSWS) is featured in an article in The Inquirer on Bearing Witness: Four Days in West Kingston, an exhibit she co-curated at the Penn Museum through July 15, 2018. In May 2010, the “Tivoli Incursion,” a standoff between Jamaican security forces and a local gang leader wanted for extradition by the United States government, resulted in the death of at least 75 civilians in West Kingston on the island of Jamaica.