Events

Come join us for a traveling art exhibit and lecture: "Feminism Outside the Metropole: Progressivism in the Marathi Magazine Stree, 1930-1965," by Dr. Ashwini Tambe, Associate Professor, UMCP; Dr. Shruti Tambe, Associate Professor, Univ. of Pune; and Ganesh Vispute, Marathi poet, artist, translator, Pune, India. Thursday, May 10, 2012, 3pm-5pm, Francis Scott Key Hall 1102J (ARHU Dean's Conference Room), University of Maryland. [PDF Flyer] 

Ice Cream Social: Come join the Women’s Studies Department for an afternoon of ice cream and conversation! Monday, April 30, 2012, 4:00pm in 2101R Woods Hall. [PDF Flyer]

The Departments of Women's Studies and American Studies invite you to a book signing and reception with wine and cheese to celebrate the release of new books by Drs. Katie King (WMST), Jason Farman (AMST), and Jo Paoletti (AMST): Friday, April 27, 2012, 4:00-7:00pm, Knight Hall, Room 3203. [PDF Flyer]

The College of Arts & Humanities presents: A Conversation with Angela Davis, Weds, April 18, 2012, 7pm, Colony Ballroom, Stamp Student Union, followed by audience Q&A. Reserve your FREE ticket starting Monday, April 9 by visiting the Stamp Student Union Ticket Office between noon and 10 PM. Can’t attend, watch LIVE at www.arhu.umd.edu/angeladavis [PDF Flyer]

Want to learn more about zines, or make your own? A Pop-Up Zine Library inhabits the Women's Studies Multimedia Studio, 0135 Taliaferro, Thursday, April 5, 2012, 9:30am-3:30pm. Co-sponsored by the Women's Studies Department, the WMST Multimedia Studio, and the Curriculum Transformation Project. [PDF Flyer]

Join the Departments of Women's Studies and American Studies for "Trayvon, Tragedy, and Traumas of the Everyday": A Community Conversation, Wednesday, April 4, 2012, 6pm, 1101 Biosciences Research Building. Vigil immediately to follow, 8:02pm, Nyumburu Cultural Center. Co-sponsored by TRIOTA: UMD's Women's Studies Honor Society and the Department of African American Studies. [PDF Flyer]

Join us on Tues, March 27, 2012, 106 Key Hall, 6PM for From the Back of the Room (dir. Amy Oden) and Grrrl Love and Revolution: Riot Grrrl NYC (dir. Abby Moser): a screening of excerpts from two recent films on women in music, followed by a discussion and Q&A with the filmmakers. [PDF_Flyer]

The African American Studies Department presents "Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC": A Civil Rights Forum, March 8, 2012, 2-3:30pm, Multipurpose Room, Nyumburu Cultural Center. [PDF Flyer]

As part of the Tenth Annual Lecture Series in LGBT Studies, Kara Keeling will speak on Thursday, March 1, 2012, 5:00 p.m., in Ulrich Recital Hall (Tawes Hall) on “The Queer Place of Space: Afrofuturism and Speculations on ‘Africa’.” For the full LGBT Lecture Series schedule spring 2012, see here. 

Visit the CRGE's Academic Diversity Calendar of Events, highlighting UMD's rich community of scholars, departments and research centers which focus on issues of diversity, equity and inclusion.  

Video documentation of events in the Women's Studies Multimedia Studio is now archived on Vimeo! Please visit our page and spread the word. 

Women's Studies announces Fall 2011 events, including campus visits from E. Patrick Johnson, the Mobile Homecoming Project, Sara Marcus, and Florence Howe [PDF Flyer]

News and Announcements

Congratulations to Bettina Judd, who has been awarded a Five College Fellowship. The Five College Fellowship Program offers year-long residencies for doctoral students who are completing their dissertations. Bettina will be among their fellows for the academic year 2012/13 with a residency at Mount Holyoke College. Bettina has also been awarded an Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship by the UMD Graduate School for the 2012-13 academic year. 

Graduating senior Charissa Powell has been accepted into the Master's of Library Science graduate program here at UMD.  Congratulations, Charissa!

Check out our Fall 2012 course listings on Testudo or download PDFs of WMST course listings here.  

Applications for the Women's Studies Graduate Certificate Program are considered twice per year: for fall admission, applications must be received by April 15; for spring admission, applications must be received by November 15.

PhD Candidate Julie Enszer has been selected to receive a 2012 Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women's Studies. In addition, Enszer has been named the Ostriker Fellow this year, a special designation awarded to the Women's Studies Fellow whose work is the most outstanding in the field of literary studies. In the words of the award committee, Enszer's project "stood out as one of the most impressive works in the field of print culture and literature." Congratulations, Julie!

Women's Studies major Sarah Singer has been selected for a Maryland Summer Scholars (MSS) award for 2012. MSS provides funding for undergraduate students to enhance their academic experience by spending the summer working closely with UMD faculty mentors on scholarly research or artistic projects. Congratulations, Sarah! 

Consider joining members of the WMST department in Annapolis to support the Higher Education Equity Act that would grant graduate students, non-tenure track faculty, and tenure track faculty the right to engage in collective bargaining over wages, conditions, and benefits. Transportation from College Park will be provided. Organizers are also looking for teachers and researchers to testify in session or in writing. Contact Todd Reynolds at todd.reynolds@gatech.edu for more details.

Women's Studies congratulates Octavia Sykes on her admission to the MSW and Master's of Education programs at Widener University. Best wishes, Octavia! 

We are proud to announce the publication of a collection with several UMD WMST authors: Feminist Cyberspaces: Pedagogies in Transition (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012). Included essays are: "Digital Gender Story Project: Teaching Gender in the Digital Age," by L. Ayu Saraswati (PhD 2007); "Women's Health and Well-Being: A Transcultural/Transnational Teaching and Learning Collaboration," by Kimberlee Staking (PhD Candidate); and "Feminist Worlding: Media Ecologies Learning," by Katie King (Faculty), Jarah Moesch (AMST PhD program), and the students of Share It!, A Women’s Studies Senior Seminar, University of Maryland, College Park. A PDF of the first 30 pages is available here.

Dr. Katie King has published a new book, Networked Reenactments: Stories Transdisciplinary Knowledges Tell. It is available from Duke University Press.

Dr. Jeffrey McCune has been awarded a seed grant from the Qualitative Research Interest Group of the University of Maryland Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity, for "Some Place Like a Home: An Ethnographic Study of Homelessness Among LGBT Youth of Color."

“Race, Sexuality, and African American Women Representing the Nation: An Interview with Elsa Barkley Brown” is published in The Americanist: Warsaw Journal for the Study of the United States, Vol. XXVI (2011), 17-36.

Dr. Tara Rodgers’s Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound has been awarded the 2011 Pauline Alderman Book Award for outstanding scholarship on women in music from the International Alliance for Women in Music.

Triota, UMD's Women's Studies Honor Society, would like to congratulate the following students who were inducted at the winter ceremony: Caitlin Bourne, Neva Bowers, Ariel Brown, Abbey Lyons, Valerie Mickiewicz, Jacqueline Studley, Patricia Tuon, and Mikeisha Williams. Anyone interested in Triota should e-mail us at triotaumd@gmail.com, or see our Facebook page or our website.

Women's Studies welcomes two new Associate Professors, Drs. Aswhini Tambe and Catherine Schuler [PDF Flyer]

Congratulations to Dr. Bonnie Thornton Dill on her appointment as Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities, effective August 1, 2011 for the next two years.

Thanks and congratulations also to Professors Deborah Rosenfelt and Seung-kyung Kim who have agreed to serve as Interim Chairs for the Women’s Studies Department: Dr. Rosenfelt, from August 1-January 8, 2012; and Dr. Kim, from January 9-June 30, 2012. The department anticipates a search for a permanent Chair during the upcoming academic year.

Graduate Director's Update, Fall 2011 [PDF]