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The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is proud to honor Casey Klemmer, MAIS '23, with the 2025 Distinguished Alumni Award in women and gender studies. Klemmer is a humanitarian aid worker and LGBTQ rights advocate supporting refugees in Samos, Greece. Klemmer has worked across Europe and on the border in Greece, Serbia, and Morocco, providing psychosocial support and essential services to displaced communities.

Women and Gender Studies (WGST) and African and African American Studies (AAAS) are announcing our call for our Sojourner Truth Faculty Award nominations, due Friday, December 5th!

The call for proposals for the 2026 LGBTQ+ Student Showcase is now open. The final deadline for presenters to submit their abstracts electronically is at 5 p.m. on November 5.

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.  

Women and Gender Studies is about making sense of the real world and making real change. It is important for the field to bring your experiences, your questions, and your passions to your studies. Come ready to talk about your experience and passions, be prepared to challenge your own beliefs, and bring empathy and compassion to each space you enter.

Each year, the Women & Gender Studies and the African & African American Studies programs confer special honor with the Sojourner Truth faculty award. We are excited to announce that Dr. Carol Cleaveland, Dr. Deborah Kwak, and Dr. Stefan Wheelock are the 2025 Sojourner Truth Faculty Award recipients! We appreciate their remarkable work.

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."

Check out the classes we are offering for Spring 2025 !