From the Chair
Dear Friends of Women and Gender Studies,
WGST has had a great start to the new school year. WGST faculty of color hosted a faculty and student of color lunch at the cottage, which was such a huge success that we ran out of food twice! We are also excited about our expanded relationship with Front Range Community College. Last month we hosted 10 FRCC students for lunch to talk about the transition to CU and our WGST offerings. Then they sat in on our popular Disney Women and Girls class to get a feel for the CU classroom experience. We hope to see these students in our classes soon! Finally, we have partnered with Jewish Studies to search for a new faculty member to join us here next fall.
Thank you for your continued support of Women and Gender Studies. Drop us an email to let us know what you’ve been doing!
Sincerely,
Lorraine Bayard de Volo
Chair & Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies
Students in Dr. Kristie Soares' course WGST 3600 Latina/x Studies working on their class projects in the Cottage Library.
This fall, the department held several events to support its commitment to diversity. The Students and Faculty of Color luncheon held in September connected the department’s majority-POC faculty with undergraduates, graduates, post-docs, and staff that identify as people of color. Attendance was exceptional, and the event was a great success. Faculty members have also been using the department’s library as a resource for courses focused on people of color and activism. Pictured above, Dr. Soares’ Latina/x Studies class conducted archival research in the Cottage library, and learned about the library's holdings.
WGST Faculty Updates
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Celeste Montoya, Robert Wyrod, Maisam Alomar, Emmanuel David, Deepti Misri, Robert Buffington,
Kristie Soares, Alison Jaggar, Janet Jacobs,
and Lorraine Bayard de Volo (chair)
Emmanuel David's essay "Transgender Archipelagos," published in the August issue of the journal Transgender Studies Quarterly, explores the archipelago “as an analytic to theorize the coastline-like boundaries and porous edges of transgender as a collective identity and as an emergent field of study.”
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Alison Jaggar gave the keynote address "You Will Not Replace Us!: Decolonizing Liberalism and Feminism in Search of Immigration Justice" for the 2018 annual conference of Concerned Philosophers for Peace in October, co-sponsored by the department of Philosophy and the Center for Values and Social Policy. Jaggar co-wrote the recently published article "Agency, Complicity, and the Responsibility to Resist Structural Injustice" in The Journal of Social Philosophy, [Vol. 49, No. 3 (Fall 2018) pp. 439-460], with Corwin Aragon '13, who received his PhD in philosophy from CU Boulder, along with the WGST graduate certificate. He is currently an assistant professor of philosophy at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
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Deepti Misri co-edited a special issue of the journal Women's Studies Quarterly, on the theme of "Protest." The special issue was launched in November in New York City, at the Interference Archive, as well as at the annual conference of the National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) in Atlanta.
Elena Cohen, Deepti Misri & Melissa Forbis***
Kristie Soares organized the Race, Affect and Feminist Science Reading Group, which met twice this semester to discuss current topics at the intersection of race, gender, affect and science. Discussions included a review of Kyle Schuller's recent monograph, The Biopolitics of Feeling, and the Hypatia Transracialism Controversy of 2017.
