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Nine University of Pennsylvania affiliates—six fourth years and three recent graduates—have each received a 2024 Thouron Award to pursue graduate studies in the United Kingdom. Each Thouron Scholar receives tuition for up to two years, as well as travel and living stipends.

For IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Northampton, MA — Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism announces the awardees of the 2024 Paula J. Giddings Best Article Award.
The Paula J. Giddings Best Article Award seeks to honor an author whose work embodies the groundbreaking nature and innovative spirit of Paula’s writing. We aim for this award to highlight different forms of knowledge production that engage scholarship, journalism, activism, and cultural work, among others, from each published volume of Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism.

GSWS Faculty Member Melissa Jensen Featured in Penn Today
Check it out below!
https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/exploring-jane-austen-taylor-swift-wri…

The policies of the University of Pennsylvania protect academic freedom, as defined in the AAUP’s 1940 Statement of Principles. This statement has been endorsed by over 250 scholarly and educational organizations in the United States, and its principles are written into faculty handbooks nationwide, including Penn’s. The principles of academic freedom were established to protect the integrity of research and teaching from interference by donors, trustees, politicians, and others who might seek to make universities serve private and political interests.

Join the Spring 2024 Kelly Writers House Fellows Seminar with Professor Simone White!
This course includes class visits and readings by non-fiction writer and scholar Maggie Nelson; poet and essayist Harryette Mullen; and novelist Jamaica Kincaid.
Throughout the semester, we will study and comprehensively discuss the work of these three writers — their relationship to each other and to the contemporary world.
The course will be held in the Arts Cafe of the Kelly Writers House.

Penn Nursing’s Dalmacio Dennis Flores, PhD, ACRN, FAAN, Assistant Professor of Nursing in the Department of Family and Community Health and GSWS Affiliated Faculty member has been awarded a 2023 grant from the Hillman Innovations in Care (HIC) program.

In July, Charlotte Jacobs, GSE Assistant Adjunct Professor and GSWS Executive Board Member, traveled to Johannesburg to participate in a conference organized by the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls (OWLAG). The gathering, titled “What Happened to You: Understanding the Impact of Trauma on Learning, Teaching and Psychological Functioning,” centered on trauma-informed practice (TIP), which examines how adversity, background, and lived experiences shape a student's development and learning.

Local radio station WXPN announces a listener supported contest aimed at showcasing the "885 Greatest Songs by Women." From the press release: "Some of our previous countdowns, while abundant in talent, sometimes miss the mark when showcasing the female voices shaping music. This year’s countdown aims to bring some balance and female energy to our end-of-year celebration."

Claudia Bellacosa, a junior major in GSWS with a double-major in Economics, was featured in Penn Today regarding her research on "intensive motherhood." Bellacosa completed the research as part of a team led by Sociology Professor Paula Fomby. Read more about their research findings in Penn Today.