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Prof. Marcia Chatelain, GSWS Affiliate Faculty, Appears on The Black Studies Podcast
About The Black Studies Podcast
The Black Studies podcast is a series of conversations examining the history of the field. Their conversations engage with a wide range of activists and scholars - senior figures in the field, late doctoral students, and everyone in between, culture workers, and political organizers - in order to explore the cultural and political meaning of Black Studies as an area of inquiry and its critical methods.
'Screening Women Filmmakers' Available for Pre-Order
Screening Women Filmmakers is an essential collection of 58 essays, each focusing on a single film directed by a woman-identified filmmaker, inclusively defined, from the earliest days of filmmaking (1896) to the present day, and from countries and regions around the globe.
School of Arts & Sciences Names Two GSWS Core Faculty to Endowed Chairs
Please join us in congratulating Ayako Kano and Deb Thomas on this accomplishment!
Beth Linker, GSWS Affiliate Faculty, Shortlisted for 2026 George Rosen Prize
Beth Linker, the Samuel H. Preston Endowed Term Professor in the Social Sciences and chair of the department of history & sociology of science in the School of Arts & Sciences, was shortlisted for the 2026 George Rosen Prize for her book, Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America.
Pilar Gonalons-Pons, GSWS Core Faculty, Wins Award from the American Sociological Association
Pilar Gonalons-Pons, the Alber-Klingelhofer Presidential Associate Professor of Sociology in the School of Arts & Sciences, has won the Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Section’s Devah Pager Outstanding Article Award at the American Sociological Association annual meeting.
Trans Oral History Project Featured in Omnia
The Philadelphia Trans Oral History Project captures the stories and memories of the city’s transgender community. Soon, a series of zines will bring that history to the public.
Jocelyn E. Marshall, FQT Scholar, Curates "Living Legacy"
Jocelyn E. Marshall, FQT Scholar, Curates "Living Legacy," celebrating art, freedom and the enduring legacy of James Weldon Johnson.
Ricardo and Eva: Our Sincerest Thanks
The GSWS and FQT team wants to express gratitude and warmth for two folks who are wrapping up their time with us: Ricardo Bracho and Eva Pensis.