Fostering teaching, learning and discussion about gender and sexuality at the University of Chicago…
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The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at the University of Chicago was established in 1996, after a decade of faculty and student self-organization. It now consolidates work on gender and sexuality, and in feminist, gay and lesbian, and queer studies.
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Graduate Student News
- Caroline Schuster (Residential Fellow 2010-11, CSGS/Mellon Dissertation Fellow 2011-12) will begin a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University this autumn.
- Julia Kowalski (CSGS/Mellon Dissertation Fellow 2011-12) has been awarded The Woodrow Wilson Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship in Women's Studies for 2012.
- Sarah Luna (Hormel Fellow 2011-12) will hold the Predoctoral Fellowship at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California at San Diego during 2012-13.
- Luis-Manuel Garcia (Hormel Fellow 2010-11) is finishing up a a postdoctoral fellowship at the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies at the Freie Universiät.
- Larisa Reznik (Residential Fellow 2010-11) was awarded a Rosenweig Minerva Center Research Fellowship for 2012 and has just completed six months of research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
- Catherine Bronson (Residential Fellow 2010-11) has been named the Associated Colleges of the Midwest Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Arabic and Islamic Studies at Beloit College for 2012-14.
Undergraduate Alumnae/i News
- Malic White, BA ’12, whose BA paper was a memoir project titled “Starboy,” is taking his stories to the Chicago stage. This summer he told stories at Quimby’s Bookstore, the literary salon All the Writers I Know, the Tour de Fat celebration (where he performed his story “Faggot Bike”), and this fall he will read at Essay Fiesta at the Book Cellar and perform at Homolatte at Big Chicks bar. See http://essayfiesta.com/ and http://www.homolatte.com/ for more information on these events. He has continued to write short plays and performance pieces and to pursue his career as an actor.
- Lulu Danzig, BA ’11, whose BA paper argued for affirmative practice with the bisexual population within the social work field is about to begin the Master of Science program at the Columbia School of Social Work in New York. Her first field placement through CUSSW will be at the Institute for Family Health, a family health clinic in Union Square, and she is also working “Go Ask Alice!”, Columbia Health Promotion’s Q&A service, where she will answer questions from the Columbia community and beyond. More information on the clinic and the Q&A service are at http://www.institute2000.org/ and http://goaskalice.columbia.edu/.