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Beth Linker, Associate Professor of History and Sociology of Science and GSWS Core Faculty, received an NEH Fellowship for her project Slouch: The Hidden History of America’s Poor Posture Epidemic. Dr. Linker received a 2015-2016 TCPW research grant from the Alice Paul Center to support this project.

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!

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.

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.

Congratulations to Litty Paxton (Director, Penn Women's Center & GSWS Affiliated Faculty) on her Provost's Award for Teaching Excellence.

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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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.

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.

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.