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The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is proud to honor Waleska Del Valle Solorzano, BA Philosophy '18, MA '21, with the 2026 Distinguished Alumni Award in women and gender studies.

Associate Director of Women and Gender Studies Holly Mason Badra recently published a nonfiction essay, Ez Kurdim: Meditations on Ritual, Gathering, and Being, in The Markaz Review's Kurdish Issue: Hawar. 

Embodying Motherhood: Indian and Transnational Perspectives (forthcoming, Routledge 2027) co-authored by Anu Aneja and Shubhangi Vaidya, is a substantially revised version of Embodying Motherhood: Perspectives from Contemporary India (Sage-Yoda Press, 2016). Besides updated chapters, the new book includes a co-authored epilogue in the form of a dialogue between the two authors on reimagining motherhood in Indian and transnational contexts.

Check out the new podcast series "So You Wanna Research Popular Culture?" with Dr. David Powers Corwin (associate professor in Integrative Studies and affiliate faculty in Women and Gender Studies).

Simmons' thesis "I Will See What Thou Carriest:” The Unintelligible Gender of Thomas(ine) Hall, Queer Historiographies, and the Colonial American Racialized Gender Regime" was recognized as an outstanding thesis that exemplifies rigorous intersectional feminist scholarship.

Holly Mason Badra recently published a multi-genre anthology showcasing the work of contemporary Kurdish women and nonbinary writers living all over the world. Sleeping in the Courtyard: Contemporary Kurdish Writers in Diaspora (The University of Arkansas Press, 2025) was recently featured in The Kurdistan Chronicle and elsewhere. 

Dr. Anu Aneja wrote the afterword for the recently published anthology Trigger Warnings: Teaching Through Trauma (Lever Press, 2026).

Congratulations to associate professor Dr. David Powers Corwin on their newly appointed role as the co-editor of the Journal of Appalachian Studies. 

November 7 through November 14, GMU joins many others across the Americas for the Next System Teach-Ins.