Congratulations to Professor Elva Orozco Mendoza on New Co-Authored Article
WGSS professor, Elva Orozco Mendoza, publishes new co-authored article “13 Theses on Feminist Protest: A Manifesto,” analyzing how and why feminism is the leading force in activism.
Welcome New SCI Department Head, Jason Chang
Jason Change becomes head of new Social and Critical Inquiry department, which includes Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Asian and Asian American Studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies, and American Studies.
Mellon Foundation Awards $100,000 to UCONN WGSS
With the efforts of Director Sherry Zane and Associate Director Ariana Codr cowriting a proposal, WGSS receives $100,000 from the Mellon Foundation.
WGSS Celebrates 50 Years
https://today.uconn.edu/2024/03/a-look-back-a-look-forward-with-wgss/
WGSS celebrates 50 years with empowering scholarly activists such as: Alexis De Veaux, Beverley Guy-Sheftall, and M. Jacqui Alexander. Titled, “The Uses of Anger: WGSS at 50” is an ode to Audre Lorde’s speech, “the Uses of Anger” that was given at the National Women’s Studies Association in 1981.
