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Postconflict Reconstruction in Africa
- Faculty Member(s): Alidou, Ousseina D.
- Publisher & Year: Africa Research Publications, 2006
- Collaboration Notes: Ahmad Alawad Sikainga
- Book URL: https://www.amazon.com/Postconflict-Reconstruction-Africa-Ousseina-Alidou/dp/1592214126/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1385566668&sr=1-5&keywords=Ousseina+Alidou
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Engaging Modernity: Muslim Women and the Politics of Agency in Postcolonial Niger (Women in Africa and the Diaspora)
- Faculty Member(s): Alidou, Ousseina D.
- Publisher & Year: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011
- Book URL: http://www.amazon.com/Engaging-Modernity-Politics-Postcolonial-Diaspora/dp/0299212149/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1385566714&sr=1-3&keywords=Ousseina+Alidou
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Muslim Women in Postcolonial Kenya
- Faculty Member(s): Alidou, Ousseina D.
- Publisher & Year: University of Wisconsin Press, 2013
- Book URL: http://www.amazon.com/Muslim-Women-Postcolonial-Kenya-Representation/dp/0299294641/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1382115984&sr=1-3&keywords=ousseina+alidou
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Gender, Race and Nationalism in Contemporary Black Politics
- Faculty Member(s): Alexander-Floyd, Nikol
- Publisher & Year: Palgrave MacMillian, 2007
- Book URL: http://www.amazon.com/Nationalism-Contemporary-Politics-Comparative-Feminist/dp/1403979669
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Now Accepting MA Applications for Spring Matriculation!
The WGSS MA Program is pleased to allow students to matriculate in the spring semester each year. For Spring '26 Matriculation, applications are due November 15. For Fall '26 Matriculation, applications are due to December 20, 2025.
For more information, visit https://womens-studies.rutgers.edu/academics/graduate-program/ma-program
Protecting Black Women: The Problem of Online Violence
- Event Start Date: February 29, 2024
- Event Start Time: 4:30 PM
- Event Location: Online Via Zoom
"Protecting Black Women" is a moderated conversation between Dr. Brittney Cooper, Founding Director and Principal Investigator of RAGE Lab, Sabrina Hersi Issa, a human rights technologist, angel investor, and Managing Partner at Democracy Well, and Jotaka Eaddy, CEO and Founder of Full Circle Strategies, a Black-owned and women-led organization committed to curating a culture of anti-racism. This conversation will address the growing problem of digital violence and harassment that Black women and girls are experiencing by envisioning the ways we can mobilize technology companies, governments, academic spaces, and grassroots movements to address the problem.
This timely virtual event brings together leading voices in activism, strategy, and scholarship to address the urgent issue of online violence targeting Black women:
- Jotaka Eaddy, CEO & Founder, Full Circle Strategies
- Dr. Brittney Cooper, Founder & Principal Investigator, R.A.G.E. Lab
- Sabrina Hersi Issa, Managing Partner, Democracy Well
For more information and Zoom registration, please go here.
The State of Sex: A Conversation with Paisley Currah & Maya Mikdashi
- Event Start Date: October 26, 2023
- Event Start Time: 5:00 PM
- Event End Time: 6:30 PM
- Event Location: 162 Ryders Lane, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Join the Conversation: The State of Sex
Join us for a timely and provocative dialogue on the politics of sex, gender, and state power featuring:
Paisley Currah
- Affiliation: Professor of Political Science, and Women’s & Gender Studies at Brooklyn College and of Political Science, Women's & Gender Studies, and English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY).
- Key Work: Author of the recent book, Sex Is As Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity (NYU Press, 2022). His work interrogates how sex classification shapes transgender recognition and governance.
- Background: Currah writes widely on transgender issues, including on topics such as discrimination, sex classification, and the transgender rights movement. He was a founding board member of the Transgender Law and Policy Institute, served on the founding board of directors of Global Action for Trans Equality, and sat on the advisory board of Human Rights Watch’s LGBT Program.
Maya Mikdashi
- Affiliation: Associate Professor in the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University.
- Key Work: Author of Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism and the State in Lebanon (SUP, 2022). Her research explores the intersections of law, religion, and gender in Lebanon and the U.S., focusing on the relationships between sexual difference and political difference, the religious and the secular, and law, bureaucracy, and biopower.
- Background: Her work is grounded in ethnographic and archival research, and has been published in several peer-reviewed journals, including the International Journal of Middle East Studies, Gay and Lesbian Quarterly, Transgender Studies Quarterly, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, the Journal of Palestine Studies, and the American Indian Culture and Research Journal. She is also a co-founding editor of Jadaliyya.
Interlocutor: Elena Gambino
- Affiliation: Assistant Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ.
- Focus: Gambino will moderate the conversation. Her scholarship is focused on race, sexuality, and political theory. Her work focuses in particular on how everyday political actors have deployed these traditions to build coalitions, and how they seek to contest and repair the inequalities that underpin modern political society and to imagine radical futures premised on racial and sexual accountability.
Event Details
- Date: Thursday, October 26, 2023
- Time: 5:00p–6:30p Conversation (4:30p Light Refreshments)
- Location: 162 Ryders Lane, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Doing Black Feminism in Public
- Event Start Date: September 13, 2023
- Event Start Time: 6:30 PM
- Event End Time: 8:00 PM
- Event Location: Trayes Hall, Douglass Campus Center 100 George St, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
THE RUTGERS RACE AND GENDER EQUITY (R.A.G.E.) LAB PROUDLY PRESENTS
Doing Black Feminism in Public
A Conversation with Dr. Brittney Cooper and Dr. Roxane Gay, Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture, and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 6:30PM - 8:00PM TRAYES HALL DOUGLASS CAMPUS CENTER 100 GEORGE ST, NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ 08901
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RUTGERS School of Arts and Sciences Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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Opinions: A Conversation with Roxane Gay
- Event Start Date: October 9, 2023
- Event Start Time: 7:00 PM
- Event Location: Rutgers Academic Building, Room 2400 15 Seminary Place, New Brunswick, NJ
Celebrate the launch of Opinions, a new anthology by acclaimed author and Rutgers professor Dr. Roxane Gay, the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture, and Feminist Studies. This collection brings together a decade of her most compelling nonfiction.
The evening features:
- A conversation moderated by Dr. Shawna Hill, Associate Professor of Communication
- Book sales and signing to follow the discussion
📝Register here: bit.ly/OpinionsRG
Presented in collaboration with:
- Institute for Women's Leadership
- School of Communication and Information
- Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Space-Time Colonialism Alaska’s Indigenous and Asian Entanglements
- Event Start Date: October 6, 2023
- Event Start Time: 12:00 PM
- Event End Time: 4:30 PM
- Event Location: Rutgers Academic Building, 15 Seminary Place
Global Asias is honored to invite you to a book talk on October 6 with Juliana Hu Pegues on Space-Time Colonialism: Alaska's Indigenous and Asian Entanglements. The talk will be held at 15 Seminary Place, Academic Building (West Wing) 1180, from 2:30-4:00pm. Hu Pegues is Associate Professor of Literatures in English at Cornell University, and recently won the 2022 Lora Romero First Book Prize from the American Studies Association for this monograph.
The talk is hybrid, in-person at 15 Seminary Place, Rutgers Academic Building (West Wing) Rm 1180 and on Zoom.
The talk will feature discussants Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow Evelyn Saavedra Autry and History PhD student, Raven Manygoats, and is moderated by Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies PhD candidate, Mich Ling. There will be a graduate luncheon prior to the talk and an open reception with snacks following. If you'd like to attend any of the events, please RSVP here.
The event is organized by the GLAS Cold War Asias Graduate Working Group and is co-sponsored by the Global Asias Institute, the Institute on Research on Women, Department of American Studies, Department of English and the Americanist Seminar, Department of History, Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and the Indigenous Working Group at the Center for Latin American Studies.




