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GRADUATE STUDENTS: Grader Positions Open!: Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies
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.
GRADUATE STUDENTS: Position Open!: Graduate Associate in Gender, Sexuality, & Women's Studies
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.
Melissa Harris-Perry delivers Berkowitz Lecture to crowd of 450 on Feb 28, 2013
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:
Dean Spade delivers his talk, "Critical Trans Politics, Violence, and Law," to a huge crowd in Bodek Lounge
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.
South Asian Feminisms out in print! Edited by Ania Loomba and Ritty Lukose (Duke University Press, 2012)
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.
GSWS Core Faculty Member Claudia Valeggia Receives from Pres. Obama a "2011 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists
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.
Potential and Current Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Major/Minor Social and Info Session - A Great Success!
The fall 2011 "Potential and Current Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Major/Minor Social and Info Session" was a great success! The event was held in Dr. Shannon Lundeen's home (on-campus) and was very well attended. Students who attended met new people, got information about the requirements for the program, looked over the long list of courses offered in GSWS, and also got to hear about all of the different career opportunities available to Penn students who graduate with a degree or a minor in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies.
GSWS Core Faculty Member Anne M. Teitelman appointed as the Silverstein Endowed Term Chair in Global Women’s Health
The appointment to a term chair is a high honor in the University and is an acknowledgement of a high level of productivity of a faculty member. It gives the GSWS Program and the Alice Paul Center great pleasure to share with our community the news that Anne M. Teitelman, PhD, CRNP has been appointed as the Patricia Bleznak Silverstein and Howard A. Silverstein Endowed Term Chair in Global Women’s Health.