Faculty Spotlight

Congratulations to Professor Barlow who will speak a part of The Brookings' event "Making Behavioral Health Work" on Tuesday, December 13th from 10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. This event will discuss the administration’s efforts to advance the integration of behavioral health into health care and other services. The event will conclude with a panel discussion among behavioral health experts and stakeholders, including HHS Deputy Secretary Andrea Palm. Complementing the convening, Brookings will release two new whitepapers on policies to strengthen mental health delivery. RSVP to attend in person or RSVP to watch the webcast.

Online viewers can submit questions via email or on Twitter using #MakingBHWork.

Student Spotlight

WGSS majors in Professor Cynthia Deitch's Fall 2022 senior seminar completed their final research presentations this week They gathered for a photo to mark Professor Deitch's last teaching day before going on leave next semester. The students and Professor Tambe clapped heartily for Professor Deitch. Professor Tambe notes, "This year, as with previous years under Professor Deitch's expert guidance, our WGSS majors produced exciting papers on an array of urgent and compelling topics. They combined a passion for critiquing historically-rooted social problems with a careful understanding of how to research them effectively and imagine alternatives. We thank Professor Deitch for her thoughtful and caring mentorship of WGSS students." 

Photo Credit: Professor Tambe

WGSS MA student Savanna Coggins recently attended the Women Talking screening and shared her thoughts: A Sarah Polley film based on the Miriam Toews’s book of the same name, Women Talking, follows the women of a remote religious community deciding the future actions of their group after discovering they had been drugged and abused by the male community members for years. With emotionally powerful and intellectually rich performances from Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, and Rooney Mara, the film explores faith, forgiveness, self determination, and collective responsibility in an engaging manner to extract meaningful and important conversations amongst audiences. The film premiered to critical acclaim at the Telluride and Toronto International Film Festivals and will open in theaters nationwide December 23rd following a limited theatrical release. 

Photos taken from the Motion Picture Association theater/Photo Credit: Professor Jameta Barlow

Spring 2023 Courses

Spring 2023 registration opened on November 15th! See below courses to add o your feminist studies!

Jobs, Internships, and Calls for Volunteers

Families USA is looking for dynamic, enthusiastic interns who are eager to learn more about our work across its four pillars: health care value, health equity, coverage and consumer experience - to help build a stronger health care system for all. This is a paid internship and an excellent opportunity to use your skills to improve health policy, racial and ethnic health inequities, and learn more on how an advocacy organization works to improve people’s lives.

Role/Responsibilities may include:

• Assist with research, collecting data, preparing draft memos, fact sheets, publications, presentations,

and other materials.

• Track and support work with state-based and national advocates.

• Database administration and help maintain the contacts for our various partners.

• Provide support on a variety of other projects on various teams.



Email Families USA for questions and to follow-up.

Volunteer Tutor at Serve Your City

Serve Your City, a community-based, black-led organization is launching their virtual tutoring program for the 2022-2023 cycle! They are seeking volunteer tutors to help educate the most under-served populations in Washington DC. The fall iteration of this program will serve close to 200 students. Sign up for this volunteer opportunity now!

Democratic Women’s Caucus (DWC)

The Democratic Women’s Caucus (DWC) seeks exceptionally motivated, dynamic, strategic, and detail-oriented staff to build and execute an ambitious communications portfolio in the 118th Congress. Open positions are available in various teams, including Member Services, Communications, and Policy. Apply for these opportunites now! Applications will be considered on a rolling basis.

Association for Community Empowerment Solutions (ACESWorld)

The Association for Community Empowerment Solutions (ACESWorld) has immediate internship opportunities for students interested in helping us work toward our goal of global gender equity. There are spots open for a Gender Equality Data Collaborative intern, Communications inter, and a Program intern. Learn more about each of the position and apply today!

Research Assistant Positions at RAND

RAND seeks well-rounded individuals who have demonstrated excellent academic performance in challenging undergraduate programs for the position of Research Assistant. Research Assistants work on a variety of education, health, science, technology, cyber security, and national and homeland security policy projects with teams of experienced economists, statisticians, physical scientists, engineers, operations researchers, social scientists, and policy researchers. This is a limited duration term position, not to exceed 3 years. Candidates with current availability as well as those that will graduate in Spring 2023 are welcome to apply. Open positions include Qualitative Research Assistant, Quantitative Research Assistant, and Research Assistant with Security Clearance.

Job Club

The Job Club is a weekly job support program to help job entrants and seekers, including the long-term unemployed, improve self-confidence, motivation, resilience and productivity for effective job searches and networking — allowing participants to move away from being merely “applicants” toward being “candidates.” The focus is on developing strength-led strategies, techniques and goal plans, matching values and strengths and improving self-awareness as approaches to finding meaningful and satisfying employment. The Job Club meets every Wednesday from 6:00PM-7:00PM on Zoom. Find more information and register now.

Researchers and Analysts at The Topos Partnership

The Topos Partnership works on exciting projects with cultural impact to create progressive change. Topos currently has openings for multiple positions: Project Lead and Ethnographers/Analysts. Topos is actively recruiting for researcher/analyst roles for this project (and other research projects). While some researchers/analysts have social science backgrounds, many of the best ethnographers come from community organizing backgrounds. Topos will train folks for these time-limited contract positions paying $30-40/hour. 

Volunteer Tutor for Learn It Together

Learn it Together is a free, online tutoring service run by college students and recent graduates. We’re an educational nonprofit looking to recruit volunteer tutors for this academic year in all subjects. Tutors can set their own schedule (there is no minimum hour requirement), tutor in the subjects they feel most comfortable with, and take part in tutor engagement (game) nights with peer tutors across the country! Learn it Together is a tangibly rewarding way to give back, mentor younger students, and become a part of a community of tutors from all over the U.S. Our tutors and leadership members range from lawyers, writers, teachers, graduate students, to actors and doctors. Apply for this opportunity now. 

Multiple Internship Opportunities: Salveo Innovations

Salveo Innovations, LLC is a health tech company founded in Congress Heights that builds solutions to simplify navigating complex health care systems. Salveo Innovations, LLC helps improve health literacy in an effort to aid the community in navigating complex healthcare systems and making sound healthcare decisions. Apply for the Operations Internship, the Entrepreneurship Intern, and/or the Communications Internship Internship.

Every Voice is seeking to have students who are interested in legislative advocacy, outreach, and grassroots organizing join our movement! If you are interested, feel free to fill out this form or check out the website to learn more and become a member. Feel free to email Mathena Jencka with any questions.

Academic Positions

Susan Currier Visiting Professorship for Excellence in Teaching at the College of Liberal Arts at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

The Susan Currier Visiting Professorship for Teaching Excellence in the College of Liberal Arts at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California is a residential visiting teaching professorship that recognizes superior teaching in the liberal arts, emphasizing (where possible) the intersection between gender and sexuality, race, and transnational/global justice and humanitarian concerns. The goal of the Susan Currier Visiting Professorship is to bring a faculty member with a distinguished record of teaching excellence to Cal Poly for the purpose of sharing expertise and passion for teaching, social justice, and the liberal arts. It can accommodate visiting faculty on semester or quarter schedules. For more information and the full position listing, including details on how to apply, please go to Cal Poly Jobs and review requisition #520771.

Adjunct Instructor at American University in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program.

The Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program at American University is seeking an adjunct instructor to teach WGSS 150 – “Women’s Voices Through Time” in the spring semester of 2023, which starts in January, with the opportunity to teach multiple sections of the course again in Fall 2023 and beyond. The course description is as follows.

Women's Voices through Time FA2 (3) This course focuses on distinctive contributions of women to Western artistic and intellectual traditions; significant articulations of human experience expressed by women through literature, art, and history; how such traditions became established; and how women, despite obstacles, have produced lasting works of ideas and imagination. AU Core Integrative Requirement: Diversity and Equity. Usually Offered: spring.

ABDs and completed M.A.s are encouraged to apply, as well as those candidates who have completed their PhDs. The WGSS program is the largest of six interdisciplinary programs which make up the broader department of Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies at American University. If you are interested in applying, please email Dr. Amy Barber introducing yourself with a CV.

The Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program American University is also seeking an adjunct instructor to teach WGSS 125 – “Gender in Society” in the spring semester of 2023, which starts in January, with the opportunity to teach the course (and potentially other WGSS courses) again in Fall 2023 and beyond. The course description is as follows. 

This course focuses on the social construction of gender along with other forms of social inequality; representations of gender that permeate all forms of cultural experience; and theoretical arguments regarding key issues such as equality, ethics and politics, as well as debates at the frontier of gender theory 

ABDs and completed M.A.s are encouraged to apply, as well as those candidates who have completed their PhDs. The WGSS program is the largest of six interdisciplinary programs which make up the broader department of Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies at American University.   

If you are interested in applying, please email Dr. Amy Barber introducing yourself with a CV.

Assistant Professor of Gender & Sexuality and Social Mobility At Northern Illinois University

The Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor specializing in gendered and sexualized disparities affecting social mobility. We invite interdisciplinary scholars who work in areas such as (but not limited to) environmental justice, feminist indigenous geography or environmental studies, food/water/land/climate justice, gender and STEM, queer and transgender studies, Black feminisms, critical prison studies/transformative justice, or law and policy related to women and/or LGBTQIA+ populations.

This position will be jointly appointed in the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and either the Department of Sociology or the Department of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment as the tenure home. The Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality is one of 6 academic diversity centers at NIU and is home to joint faculty members in addition to a larger network of faculty and staff associates across campus. The Center offers an undergraduate major in women’s, gender and sexuality Studies, minors in women’s and gender studies and LGBTQ+ studies, and undergraduate and graduate certificates. For full consideration, prospective applicants should apply online by January 4, 2023. For questions, contact the search committee chair Simón Weffer.

Muriel Gold Senior Visiting Professorship Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies Faculty of Arts at McGill University

The Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF) at McGill University, Montreal, Canada invites applications for the position of Muriel Gold Visiting Professor. This nil-salary position is open to applicants wishing to spend one or two academic terms (Fall 2023 and/or Winter 2024) in residence at McGill to carry out research on gender, sexuality or feminist studies. The Institute is located at the center of a stimulating, bilingual, urban environment in the city of Montreal. It offers workspace and support, an ongoing seminar program, and contact with faculty members at McGill and neighboring Montreal universities.



To be eligible, applicants must hold a faculty position in another academic institution. The position is ideal for those with research leave funding, a portable research fellowship, or a sabbatical. Research funding of up to $5,000 is available from the IGSF. Visiting professors participate in our work-in-progress series and have an opportunity to present and discuss their research with an engaged and enthusiastic research community. Please submit your application and all required documents via the official posting available on Workday by January 31st, 2023.

Assistant Director of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program

Illinois State University is seeking applications for an Assistant Director of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program. The Assistant Director of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program serves as the academic advisor and mentor for students in the WGSS minor, two graduate certificates, and queer studies concentration. They teach one section of WGS120: Gender, Sex, and Power per semester and two summer classes. Under the direction of the Program director, the position provides leadership and actively works to provide extracurricular programing and outreach activities for the WGSS Resource Center.  

For more information about the program and the application process contact Dr. Alison Bailey.

The Gender Studies Program at New College of Florida is inviting proposals for a one-semester adjunct course in Gender Studies for Spring 2023 (the 14-week semester runs from Jan 30 to May 19). The topic of the course is open, but there is interest for proposals for courses in the fields of: Gender, Race & Law; Gender, Race & Education; or Gender and Global Health. Applicants should be dynamic and experienced teachers, one willing to engage with students on issues of gender and race, whether in a U.S. or global frame. The course should be at the intermediate level, although because of the college’s size and culture, courses often draw a mix of students (from 1^st-4^th year). The course can be taught in person, at our Sarasota, FL, campus, or remotely. 

The pay range for an adjunct course, meeting 3hrs/week, is between $4,000-4,500. More about the program can be found at Gender Studies - New College of Florida. Contact Emma Knadle, GS Office Manager or Amy Reid, Director of the GSP with any questions. 

To propose a course, please submit: a letter that includes your teaching philosophy, a brief 1-page description of the course, and a copy of your CV, including the names and contact information for two recommenders to: Emma Knadle.

U.S. Women’s and Gender History Tenured Professor

The Department of History at Hunter College, CUNY invites applications for an Open Rank (full-time, tenure-track/tenured) position in U.S. Women’s and Gender History, with an anticipated start date on or about September 1, 2023. A PhD in history is required at the time of appointment. Candidates must demonstrate excellence or strong promise of excellence in both research and publication and in the teaching of U.S. Women’s and Gender History.

Applications must be submitted online by accessing the CUNY Portal on the City University of New York website. To search for this vacancy, click SEARCH ALL POSTINGS and in SEARCH JOBS field, enter the Job Opening ID number (25771). Click on the “APPLY NOW” button and follow the application instructions. Review of applications will begin January 16, 2023 and continue until position is filled. 

Feminist Methodologies in Research on Violence, Displacement, and Power

GWI's Research Scientist Alina Potts alongside co-editors Santi Kusumaningrum of PUSKAPA Indonesia, and Anny Modi of Afia Mama in the Democratic Republic of Congo, are seeking papers for a special journal issue.

Contributions of original research, reflection articles, and case studies, with the central theme of using feminist methodologies to explore issues of violence, displacement, and/or power are welcome. 

Learn more and apply online.

Crossings at Swarthmore College is accepting submissions new undergraduate interdisciplinary research journal in feminist theory and scholarship. Crossings is an open-access, peer reviewed publication that is inspired by M. Jacqui Alexander’s Pedagogies of Crossings, which takes as its basis the concept of the Middle Passage, the Crossing, to understand Black transnational feminism’s erosion of boundaries —disciplinary conventions, respectability politics, national borders, and bodies that are gendered, sexualized, and racialized, among others kinds of categories—  in relation to empire and postmodernity. 

Our inaugural issue’s theme is “Crossings,” which generally seeks to explore the question, what does it mean to cross boundaries in feminist research? This is an open-ended theme (a list of examples is included in our call for papers). We accept publications from any field of research that generally touches on the themes of women, femmes and LGBTQ+-identified people with a special interest in perspectives by and about racialized women. We invite open-ended submissions exploring the horizons of non-traditional, boundary-crossing research in feminist theory, applications of feminist analysis, discussions of methodologies, interview-style features, and multimedia projects. All submissions are due by December 16 for full consideration in our inaugural issue.

Check out the call for papers and guidelines on our website or email Crossings for more information or to direct any questions.

Evolution DC Blog at the GW Textile Museum

The Albert H Small Center for Capital Area Studies, based at the GW Museum, is launching a new blog titled Evolution DC to help share stories from DC history and the collection, the blog will be entirely student written. As blogs become more commonplace in many academic circles they are excited to give students the opportunity to publish! Potential topics and themes are based upon each student’s individual interests, the blog is not limited to any particular discipline or writing style. Their collection holds a variety of prints, newspapers, maps, artworks, and ephemera related to DC history for students to explore and research. They encourage interested students or classes to schedule a visit to the center to explore the collection and discuss their ideas. For more information or to visit the center, please send an email.

Call for Submissions to the 7th International Conference on: Inclusion or Exclusion: The Self and the Other in Sacred Texts and Human Contexts

Nazareth College, Hickey Center for Interfaith Studies & Dialogue and IIIT Chair for Islamic & Interfaith Studies is pleased to announce its 7th international conference on: Inclusion or Exclusion: The Self and the Other in Sacred Texts and Human Contexts on May 22-24, 2023 at Nazareth College. The Conference is open to scholars in religious studies, theology and social sciences from US and abroad as presenters or participants.

• The proposal should be no more than 550 words.
• Send a 225-word resume that presents expertise in the area of your presentation.
• Include your address, telephone number, and email address.
• Notice of acceptances will be sent soon after evaluation with guidelines for full presentation.
• Selected papers are published
• Last date to receive your proposal is December 31, 2022, earlier is preferred.

Proposals are to be emailed to: The Hickey Center Conference

Please visit the website to know more about the conference sub-topics and submitting a proposal.

Nazareth College, Hickey Center for Interfaith Studies & Dialogue and IIIT Chair for Islamic and Interfaith Studies is pleased to announce its 7th international conference on "Inclusion or Exclusion: The Self and the Other in Sacred Text and Human Context" on May 22-24, 2023 at Nazareth College. See the above flyer for more details in order to submit your proposal by December 31st!

The Gay & Lesbian Review

The Gay & Lesbian Review (The G&LR) has launched a new graduate student grant opportunity, The G&LR Writers and Artists Grant! This grant is dedicated to bring new, diverse perspectives, ideas, and voices to the magazine and to encourage and support emerging and unpublished LGBTQ+ writers, thinkers, scholars, and artists. The grant(s) would provide $7,500 to write one or more articles for our magazine, The G&LR, and to begin, complete, or advance LGBTQ+ related writing and other creative projects like a research paper, dissertation, or thesis, a book, a podcast, a video, a script, a novel, a multimedia creation, an art installation, or a variety of similar creative efforts.The submission portal is open and will close on January 17, 2023 at 11:59pm EST. Learn more details and apply now!

Women's Studies Quarterly

This special issue of Women’s Studies Quarterly invites reflection on the status, health, precarity, and promise of the discipline of women’s, gender, sexuality, and feminist studies in light of our current state of pandemonium. By “pandemonium,” we point not only to those tragedies, inequalities, and disruptions to the university and higher education stemming directly from the Covid-19 pandemic but also to the crisis-roiled political context fomenting a barrage of assaults on feminist studies as a discipline in the United States and elsewhere that have been accelerating for several years prior to the pandemic and have only intensified since its outbreak.

Submissions should address ways our discipline--its individual practitioners and organizational institutions—have been affected by, or have encountered adversity and experienced struggle in the face of:

• The Global Pandemic and a panoply of consequences flowing from it
• Right-wing (white supremacist, anti-immigrant, anti- queer/trans, misogynist, etc.) movements
• Right-wing corporate media and social media 
• Authoritarianism, illiberalism, and threats democratic institutions
• War, invasion, civil strife, and refugeeism
• Neoliberalism, corporatism, and commercialization
• Climate-change disasters, environmental degradation, and climate-change denial
• Impoverishment and the “austerity” measures and policies arising from the above

Learn more about submitting a proposal now! The priority submission cycle is March 1st, 2023.

WGSS will continue to follow the University's lead to prioritize the health and safety of all members of GW. For University updates, please continue to refer to the GW COVID-19 website, as this continues to serve as the primary repository for updating the GW community. 

Out of care for your health and the safety of your loved ones, we urge all members of the GW community to wear a face-covering if traveling outside their homes, in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19. 

Gender Equality Starts in the Family

Gender discrimination at the level of the family upholds the inequalities outside of it, including in areas of education, livelihoods, and politics. From denying women's equal inheritance and property rights, to unequal citizenship laws and limitations on women's reproductive rights, the challenges facing gender equality in the family continue to mount. Women's Learning Partnership shares the following film showing women around the globe working for a more just future, starting at the level of the family.

The film draws on expertise from prominent human rights activists and leaders to examine the root causes of discriminatory laws and highlights the pathways feminist activists are taking toward legal reform. Share the film with others, along with the companion "Equality: It’s all in the Family" screening toolkit.

CCAS Career Services

Wendy Wright has joined CCAS as a Career Counselor/Coach. Wendy brings more than 25 years of corporate success working as a senior leader in international financial and development institutions, most notably with the Agency for International Development and the Export-Import Bank of the United States. In addition to earning advanced graduate degrees in political economics and public policy, Wendy is a certified professional coach (ICF PCC and iPEC).  

As the CCAS Career Counselor/Coach she will offer career coaching, interview skills support, and documentation preparation (e.g., resume, cover letter, LinkedIn profile) to help students identify and align their talents and interests to create an effective, targeted job search strategy. Schedule a meeting to connect with Wendy.

Online Therapy Resources for the LGBTQ+ Community

Online therapy is a resource that offers a plethora of different types of virtual therapy for the LGBTQ+ community. Online therapy makes it easier to access mental health care and to engage in therapy on your own terms. Find more resources that can be helpful for navigating the coming-out process, strengthening your relationships, and learning how to be true to yourself as an LGBTQ+ individual.

It is time for Give-A-Gift—GW's annual holiday event! For over 25 years, the GW community has stepped forward to support our neighbors with gifts and winter essentials for the holidays. This holiday season, we are hosting a gift giving fundraiser and wishlist drive to continue GW’s support for the D.C. community. 

Everyone in the GW community is invited to give! Participating individuals and teams are encouraged to make monetary donations in increments of $30 or purchase gifts from the wish list. Each multiple of $30 will provide an individual one gift. 

DONATE NOW

BUY A GIFT

The last day to participate is Tuesday, December 20th.

If  you  have any questions about participating in Give-A-Gift, please visit the website or send an email!

George Washington University’s Honey W. Nashman Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service to invites you to participate in the 28th annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service to take place on Monday, January 16th, 2023.  

Dr. King recognized the power of service. He famously said, "Everyone can be great because everybody can serve." Observing the Martin Luther King, Jr. federal holiday through service is a way to begin each year with a commitment to making our community a better place.  

Dr. King wanted to enact nonviolent social change through information gathering, education, personal commitment, discussion/negotiation, direct action, and reconciliation. MLK Day of Service helps to empower individuals, strengthen communities, bridge barriers, address social problems, and move us closer to Dr. King's vision of a "Beloved Community." Sign up to participate in GW’s 28th annual MLK Day of Service and Leadership (MLK DoS) on Monday, January 16th, 2023.  

The Anesthesia and Maternal Mortality Edition

Image Caption: An image of an anesthesiologist in an operating room

Credit: HealthLine

A new study has found that  racial disparities in regional anesthesia use has major implications for Black women's maternal mortality rates.  Black women have a long history of experiencing medical maltreatment, the legacy of which remains today in implicit biases and systemic inequities that worsen health outcomes. They are three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications compared to white women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A new study, which reviewed the records of nearly 57,000 adults who had surgery between 2016 and 2021, found that people of color were 29% less likely to receive regional anesthesia compared to white patients. The finding that Black women are less able to access anesthesia has particularly dangerous consequences in pregnancy and childbirth, one of the most painful and oft life-threatening operations in medicine.

Read more about this study now!