Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies

Four graduate students are receiving the A&S Graduate Medal along with their PhDs.

The decision to be a mother is as intense, and personal, as ever. Here, several Seattle-area women share how they made their choice to be a mom — or not.

The award recognizes community-building projects like Women Who Rock and American Sabor that creates new forms of scholarship.

UW's Nancy Kenney weighs in on the health risks for young women donating their eggs.

Ashley Walls is one of 100 students selected from all three campuses for the Husky 100 award. 
 

Shirley Yee, professor of gender, women and sexuality studies at the UW, is featured in this column about how equality is portrayed in America. 

If AI is sexless. Why are the majority of the personalities we construct for these machines female? Michelle Habell-Pallán, associate professor gender, women and sexuality studies is quoted.

The University of Washington has announced this year’s Awards of Excellence recipients, several come from the College of Arts & Sciences.

Have you ever felt like a stranger in your own country? If so, you’re not alone. A poll conducted by the UW Institute for the Study of Ethnicity, Race and Sexuality is referenced.

“It’s very challenging for many of the women who come here as spouses,” says Amy Bhatt, who did her Ph.D. research on high-tech immigrant communities in the Seattle.

Ana Mari Cauce made an important speech Thursday about the need for her institution to put working for fairness, justice and equity at its core, and to start by recognizing where it falls short.

Earning a PhD is accomplishment enough for most graduate students, but three recent grads received the A&S Graduate Medal along with their doctorates this spring

Black Cultural Studies students combined traditional coursework with community projects through a winter quarter collaboration with the Northwest African American Museum.

Martha Gonzalez and her band Quetzal won a 2013 Grammy for their album Imaginaries. Her work as a recording artist is intertwined with her academic work as a PhD candidate in Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies.