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Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship for Faculty Diversity - Fall 2024

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 19:42:14 +0000

Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship for Faculty Diversity - Fall 2024 Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 08/30/2024 - 13:42

The Department of Women and Gender Studies (WGST) welcomes applications for the Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship for Faculty Diversity Program. For detailed program information, including eligibility requirements, the CU ��«��Ƶ application process and timeline, and the application portal, please see: /postdoctoralaffairs/current-postdocs/chancellors-postdoctoral-fellowship-diversity-program. It is a competitive application process, first at the department level and then the university level.

To be considered as a ranked departmental nominee, materials (as listed below) need to be submitted to the Department of Women and Gender Studies by October 1, 2024. Please note this is one month ahead of the required university deadline of November 1.

Internal Application for the Department of Women and Gender Studies

Applicants should begin the process by contacting a possible mentor among the WGST faculty as soon as possible. If the WGST faculty member agrees to consider mentorship, the applicant should send them the follow materials by October 1st:

Curriculum Vitae (CV)
Personal Statement (guidelines on the university's application page)
Writing Sample

The WGST faculty will review applicant dossiers in order to rank all applicants. We are only able to nominate the very top-ranked candidates to the university review committee. Applicants will be advised of the department’s decision by October 18. The ��«��Ƶ applicant deadline is November 1.

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Dr. Samira Mehta shares new writing on Interfaith Voices and The Conversation

Anonymous — Wed, 15 May 2024 15:42:08 +0000

Dr. Samira Mehta shares new writing on Interfaith Voices and The Conversation Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 05/15/2024 - 09:42

Dr. Mehta, director of Jewish Studies and associate professor of Women and Gender Studies has recently published two new pieces of writing. On gender studies topics, Mehta wrote, "Words Count: From "Woman" to "Mother," "Embryo" to "Child"" for Internfaith Voices which discusses religious language in reproductive history. On Asianness and Judaism, Mehta also wrote "Asian Jewish Americans have a double reason to celebrate their heritage in May" for The Conversation.

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Dr. Leila Gómez Honored with College Scholar Award

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 17:28:56 +0000

Dr. Leila Gómez Honored with College Scholar Award Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 12/14/2023 - 10:28

Dr. Gómez has been selected as a recipient of the College Scholar Award by the College of Arts and Sciences as an acknowledgement of her "scholarship, creative accomplishments and promise." Congratulations Dr. Gómez!

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Special Issue: Kashmiri Futures Co-edited by Dr. Misri Available Now

Anonymous — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 17:10:00 +0000

Special Issue: Kashmiri Futures Co-edited by Dr. Misri Available Now Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 11/22/2023 - 10:10

"Kashmiri Futures," a special issue of English Language Notes edited by Dr. Deepti Misri, Dr. Mohamad Junaid, and Dr. Ather Zia is available now.

This special issue inaugurates a scholarly and creative conversation that seeks to detach the future of Kashmir from the narrative, aesthetic, and political frames of powerful nation-states that have sought to keep Kashmiris confined to a long and seemingly enduring colonial present. It seeks, moreover, to inspire radical imaginations of possible futures in danger of foreclosure by occupying states, and asks us to think about occupation as a temporal as well as spatial regime.

Check out the special issue and read the editor's introduction, made freely available.

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Announcing the Janet Jacobs Honors Colloquium!

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 19:41:45 +0000

Announcing the Janet Jacobs Honors Colloquium! Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 11/16/2023 - 12:41

The Janet Jacobs Honors Colloquium is an annual event, hosted by the department of Women and Gender Studies (WGST) and the Arts and Sciences Honors Program, to celebrate students whose honors theses, in any discipline, thematically address the fields of WGST and LGBTQ studies. Each spring 3-7 students from across the University will be selected to present their work in a colloquium setting for an audience of mentors, friends, family, and interested students, faculty, and staff. Each year, WGST and the Arts and Science Honors Program will select a guest speaker to deliver a keynote address.

The Janet Jacobs Honors Colloquium is named after Professor Janet Jacobs in honor of her more than thirty-five years as an esteemed member of the WGST department and her 8 years as Program Director for the Arts and Science Honors Program. Professor Janet Jacobs is Professor of Distinction in Women and Gender Studies. Her research focuses on ethnic and religious violence, gender, mass trauma, and collective memory. She is author of numerous books and journal articles, including Divine Disenchantment: Deconverting from New Religions (1989), Victimized Daughters: Incest and the Development of the Female Self (1994), Hidden Heritage: The Legacy of the Crypto-Jews (2002), Memorializing the Holocaust: Gender, Genocide and Collective Memory (2010), and The Holocaust Across Generations: Trauma and Its Inheritance Among Descendants of Survivors (2016). Her current work is on genocide, collective memory, and counter memorialization. She is the recipient of numerous book awards and in 2005 she received the Hazel Barnes Prize, the most prestigious single faculty award granted by the ��«��Ƶ.

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Sarah Napier Honored with 2023 Creative Activism Award

Anonymous — Tue, 16 May 2023 06:00:00 +0000

Sarah Napier Honored with 2023 Creative Activism Award Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 05/16/2023 - 00:00

The Women and Gender Studies Creative Activism award recognizes outstanding undergraduate creative works that raise awareness around issues of equity, such as race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender identity. It is designed to help foster an inclusive and welcoming campus climate for students of all backgrounds and those historically underrepresented at the university. Students from across campus are invited to submit creative works for consideration by a committee of faculty, staff, and students from our department.

P.Ink P.Elvis (V.I) by Sarah Napier

Artist's Statement:

P.Ink P.Elvis was performed for the first time on February 23-26 for CU Dance Department's Open Space. Attached is the program notes written by me as a way for you to engage in this work. This is a version of P.Ink P.Elvis and there will be many more versions to exist. It is done. It is on going. It is my queer bar.

Watch the performance

Sarah Napier graduated with honors and a double major in neuroscience and dance in 2023.

Congratulations Sarah!

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Delaney Hartmann Honored with 2023 Creative Activism Award

Anonymous — Tue, 16 May 2023 06:00:00 +0000

Delaney Hartmann Honored with 2023 Creative Activism Award Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 05/16/2023 - 00:00

The Dagger by Delaney Hartmann

Artist's Statement:

Delaney wrote the short story “The Dagger” as an allegory about how matrilineal suffering is passed down through generations between mothers and daughters. She was influenced by the feminist horror genre while writing this piece, specifically the works of Shirley Jackson, Margaret Atwood, and Julia Armfield. She also wrote this story in acknowledgement of the strength that her sister, mother and grandmothers embody each day.

Delaney graduated in 2024 with degrees in Women and Gender Studies and Political science. She is a recipient of the Outstanding Colorado Student Award, the Women and Gender Studies Creative Activism Award, the Andermarch Cicogna Award, and a Truman Scholarship finalist for CU ��«��Ƶ.

Congratulations Delaney!

Read an excerpt of The Dagger

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Routledge Handbook of Critical Kashmir Studies

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 23:40:49 +0000

Routledge Handbook of Critical Kashmir Studies Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 11/16/2022 - 16:40

the author: Deepti Misri is an Associate Professor in the Women and Gender Studies Department at the ��«��Ƶ.

Book description: The Routledge Handbook of Critical Kashmir Studies presents emerging critical knowledge frameworks and perspectives that foreground situated histories and resistance practices to challenge colonial and postcolonial forms of governance and state building. It politicizes discourses of nationalism, patriotism, democracy, and liberalism, and it questions how these dominant globalist imaginaries and discourses serve institutionalized power, create hegemony, and normalize domination. In doing so, the handbook situates Critical Kashmir Studies scholarship within global scholarly conversations on nationalism, sovereignty, indigenous movements, human rights, and international law.

Reviews:

"This crucial, timely volume not only explicates the political situation of Kashmir, it offers a paradigm-shifting example of place as relational praxis. From the critique of area studies and state-centric analytics to the attention to the ethics of knowledge and production, the editors and contributors make a trenchant case for why Kashmir both illuminates and connects with numerous other liberation movements around the world. As such, The Routledge Handbook of Critical Kashmir Studies is a brilliant envisioning of scholarship as a solidarity that draws together and transforms indigenous, decolonial, intersectional and transnational thought."

-Jasbir K. Puar, Professor and Graduate Director of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University; author of "Terrorist Assemblages" and "The Right to Maim."

"This pathbreaking interdisciplinary volume--grounded in feminist principles that are at once anti-colonial, anti-occupation, and anti-caste --brilliantly speaks to the urgency of self-determination for Kashmir. Challenging statist and area studies frameworks that typically privilege international relations and security studies, this rich collection features crucial epistemological interventions that enable the decolonial knowledge production necessary for political liberation--the best in critical Kashmir Studies."

- J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Professor of American Studies and an affiliate faculty member in Anthropology at Wesleyan University; author of 'Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism.'

Publication date: September 2022

Publisher: Routledge

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Impossible Domesticity: Travels in Mexico

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 19:00:05 +0000

Impossible Domesticity: Travels in Mexico Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 11/02/2021 - 13:00

the author: Leila Gómez is an Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies, and director of the Latin American Studies Center at the ��«��Ƶ.

Book description: Travelers from Europe, North, and South America often perceive Mexico as a mythical place onto which they project their own cultures’ desires, fears, and anxieties. Gómez argues that Mexico’s role in these narratives was not passive and that the environment, peoples, ruins, political revolutions, and economy of Mexico were fundamental to the configuration of modern Western art and science. This project studies the images of Mexico and the ways they were contested by travelers of different national origins and trained in varied disciplines from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. It starts with Alexander von Humboldt, the German naturalist whose fame sprang from his trip to Mexico and Latin America, and ends with Roberto Bolaño, the Chilean novelist whose work defines Mexico as an “oasis of horror.” In between, there are archaeologists, photographers, war correspondents, educators, writers, and artists for whom the trip to Mexico represented a rite of passage, a turning point in their intellectual biographies, their scientific disciplines, and their artistic practices.

Publication date: October 2021

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

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Beyond Chrismukkah: The Christian-Jewish Interfaith Family in the United States

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 23:03:14 +0000

Beyond Chrismukkah: The Christian-Jewish Interfaith Family in the United States Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 10/01/2019 - 17:03

Samira K. Mehta

the author: Samira Mehta is an Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies and Jewish Studies at the ��«��Ƶ.

Book description: The rate of interfaith marriage in the United States has risen so radically since the sixties that it is difficult to recall how taboo the practice once was. How is this development understood and regarded by Americans generally, and what does it tell us about the nation’s religious life? Drawing on ethnographic and historical sources, Samira K. Mehta provides a fascinating analysis of wives, husbands, children, and their extended families in interfaith homes; religious leaders; and the social and cultural milieu surrounding mixed marriages among Jews, Catholics, and Protestants.

Mehta’s eye-opening look at the portrayal of interfaith families across American culture since the mid-twentieth century ranges from popular TV shows, holiday cards, and humorous guides to “Chrismukkah” to children’s books, young adult fiction, and religious and secular advice manuals. Mehta argues that the emergence of multiculturalism helped generate new terms by which interfaith families felt empowered to shape their lived religious practices in ways and degrees previously unknown. They began to intertwine their religious identities without compromising their social standing. This rich portrait of families living diverse religions together at home advances the understanding of how religion functions in American society today.

Publication date: March 2018

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press

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Drawing on ethnographic and historical sources, Samira K. Mehta provides a fascinating analysis of wives, husbands, children, and their extended families in interfaith homes; religious leaders; and the social and cultural milieu surrounding mixed marriages among Jews, Catholics, and Protestants.

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