Katie Hurlock and Elise Robinson, Graduate Teaching Assistants in the Institute for Women's Studies, attended the 2022 National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota in November 2022. Katie, a doctoral student in the Department of English, presented Abortion Pedagogies: On Demand, Without Apology. Elise (pictured right), a doctoral candidate in the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, presented a poster entitled Neuroqueer Feminism and the WGS Classroom.

Elise Robinson, doctoral candidate in the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies and a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Institute for Women's Studies, was recently interviewed on The Uplift Podcast, a podcast dedicated to uplifting women leaders, at all levels, in higher education. The episode is entitled Feminism is Optimism and in it Elise discusses activism, teaching Women's Studies, and much more.

Read the host's introduction to the episode:

The Lamar Dodd School of Art and the Institute for Women’s Studies at the University of Georgia invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professorship in Art History and Women Studies to begin in August 2023. 

Dr. Juanita Johnson-Bailey has been named the first recipient of the Centennial Professorship, an endowed professorship in Women's Studies.

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of coeducation at the University of Georgia in 2018, the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences proposed to establish the Centennial Professorship in Women’s Studies. The $250,000 professorship would recognize and support an outstanding faculty member whose work focuses on interdisciplinary issues of gender and women’s history.