Faculty Afoot

On Monday April 28th, 2025, the Women and Gender Studies department met for our 15th annual Scholar’s Lecture. This event honors one of our faculty members and gives them a chance to discuss their current research. Dr. Yevette Richards Jordan was our lecturing scholar for this year.  

On March 4th 2025, our program director, Dr. Anu Aneja, gave the keynote address at the Center for Leadership and Intercultural Engagement's Women's History Month event. Dr. Aneja's talk was titled "Becoming woman: transnational lessons from the past for the future."

The Scholar’s Lecture is an annual event held by Women and Gender Studies to honor the work of one of our affiliate faculty members. Our lecturer this year was Dr. Claudia Cabello Hutt.

Dr. Claudia Cabello Hutt, alongside Moksheda Thapa, a graduate student from the Women and Gender Studies program, presented at the WGS South Conference on March 29. WGS South is a feminist organization dedicated to supporting and promoting all aspects of women's studies, advocating for the elimination of oppression and discrimination based on various factors such as sex, gender identity and expression, race, age, religion, sexual orientation, ethnic background, physical ability, and class. Each year, WGS South collaborates with an institution in the Southeastern region of the United States to host its annual academic conference. This year's conference was held at the University of South Carolina from March 28 - March 30. The presentations by Dr. Claudia Cabello Hutt and Moksheda Thapa included the following topics: 1. The Knife Between Her Legs: An Examination of a “Bad Girl’s” Family by Moksheda Thapa, George Mason University 2. Radical Illegibility: Queer Women’s Archives as Resistance by Dr. Claudia Cabello Hutt, George Mason University Both presentations contributed valuable insights and perspectives to the conference's discourse on gender, sexuality, and activism.

In celebration of International Women's Day 2024, Professor Anu Aneja, Director of the Women and Gender Studies program, was invited to deliver a podcast hosted by Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi. The podcast, intended for distance education students of IGNOU located across India, was relayed through the university’s media channels.

On April 20th, Women and Gender Studies hosted our annual Scholar’s Lecture, featuring a talk by Dr. Akila’Ka Ma’at, Assistant Professor in Women and Gender Studies, African and African American Studies, and Communications.

As one of the festivals featured speakers, David spoke on the importance of LGBTQ+ identities and histories in education.