News

It gives the GSWS Program and the Alice Paul Center great pleasure to announce the recipients of the 2013 Phyllis Rackin Fellowship.

• Sara Mourad, Communications: "Screening Deviance: Between Reticence and Spetacle
• Caroline Weist, German: "In the Flesh: Sexuality and the Prosthesis in the Homeland"

It gives the GSWS Program and the Alice Paul Center great pleasure to announce the recipients of the 2013 Leboy-David Fellowship.

It gives the GSWS Program and the Alice Paul Center great pleasure to share with our community that Associate Director Shannon B. Lundeen has been awarded the Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching by Affiliated Faculty.

Graders Needed: Two graders needed for GSWS 002: Gender and Society for fall 2013.

There will be approximately 80 students: each grader will be responsible for grading the work of approximately 40 students.

Priority will be given to students enrolled in the GSWS Graduate Certificate Program and preference will be given to students enrolled in a Ph.D. program.

Job duties: Must attend class and complete the readings.

Grading may include: brief response papers, group project assignments, and blog entries.

Position Open: Graduate Associate in the Gender, Sexuality, & Women’s Studies Program (GSWS) and the Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality, & Women. All graduate students currently enrolled in a Penn Ph.D. or J.D. program may apply. Priority will be given to those students who have completed or are currently enrolled in the GSWS Graduate Certificate.

Slideshow of pictures from Student Pre-Reception at Penn Women's Center and Harris-Perry's public lecture at Harrison Auditorium, both on February 28, 2013:

On January 31st, Dean Spade gave a lecture to a standing-room only crowd of over 200 people in Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall on “Critical Trans Politics, Violence, and Law”.  Dean Spade is Associate Professor of Law at Seattle University School of Law. Spade has taught classes on sexual orientation, gender identity, poverty and law at the City University of New York (CUNY), Seattle University, Columbia University, and Harvard University.

We are pleased to announce the publication of South Asian Feminisms edited by Ania Loomba and Ritty Lukose (Duke University Press, 2012). This volume arose out of an international conference by the same name, which was organized by Professors Loomba and Lukose and co-sponsored by the Alice Paul Center in 2008.

President Obama Honors Outstanding Early-Career Scientists:
GSWS Core Faculty Member, Claudia Valeggia, is one of the Recipients!

President Obama today named 94 researchers as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers.