All gender and women’s studies

Two women look at a laptop in a classroom.

October 14, 2024

UIC students and incarcerated women collaborate through art

Read the full zine featuring the women’s poetry and art

Barbara Ransby

February 14, 2022

UIC scholar receives lifetime achievement award

Barbara Ransby honored by the Caribbean Philosophical Association

Peggy Glowacki, Naomi Salcedo, and Vicky Tai

February 9, 2022

Course helps build library’s Queer Asian American Archives

The 200-level class is cross-listed in global Asian studies and gender and women’s studies

“I’m Still Surviving” exhibit

December 8, 2020

Digital exhibit spotlights women’s experiences with HIV/AIDS

UIC’s Jennifer Brier co-leads project featuring personal stories of women from Chicago, Brooklyn and North Carolina

Barbara Ransby

September 21, 2020

UIC historian earns inaugural national award for economic, social justice

Progressive scholar will receive $250,000 to support social justice project

Barbara Ransby

July 30, 2020

Professor Barbara Ransby named MacArthur Chair

Influential UIC historian and writer becomes university’s first MacArthur chair

Barbara Ransby

May 26, 2020

UIC historian elected to Society of American Historians

Barbara Ransby’s scholarship and writing earns her distinction in prestigious literary group

Roderick Ferguson

March 21, 2017

UIC race, gender scholar to lead American Studies Association

Author of books on race and queer theory to begin term as president in 2018

September 8, 2015

Pop culture seminar looks at gender, race, power and ‘Empire’

Discussion of popular show Sept. 16 considers black families, community

Jennifer Brier

September 29, 2014

Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame to induct UIC historian

Jennifer Brier honored for contributions to Chicago’s LGBT community