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Rutgers University March 27-28, 2014 March 27 5:30 pm Keynote address: Sarah Whatmore (Oxford University)March 28: 9:00-5:00 Workshop sessions Attendance at both events open to the public LOCATION: Douglass Campus, Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Bldg, 162 Ryders Land, New Brunswick, NJ 08901  For a complete schedule and further information, visit: http://after400ppm.wordpress.com. Scholars in the social and natural sciences as well as the humanities are increasingly engaging with the notion that the...

Two of the three featured panelists for the National Women’s Studies Association’s May 17, 2012 webinar “What Can You Do With a Women's Studies Degree?” have degrees in Women’s and Gender Studies from Rutgers. They are: * Ingrid Dahl, currently the Director of Next Gen (youth programs) at Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) in San Francisco, CA, earned both her BA and MA in Women’s and Gender Studies from Rutgers. * Allison Attenello, currently the Training Director at New York Peace Institute in...

Eleanor Brilliant Award for Outstanding Senior in Women’s and Gender Studies Melissa A. Gabilanes Gilda Morales Award for Outstanding Student Activist Em Kay Dorothy Hamilton Balliet Award for Outstanding Research Annu Dahiya Dee Garrison Award for Justice and Peacemaking Amarilis Rodriguez Elizabeth Hallowell Award for the Advancement of Women’s Rights Laura M. Callejas Douglass College Women’s and Gender Studies Alumnae Prize Caitlin McAleer

Among our wonderful alums, we would like to congratulate: * Megan Kennedy started her new job as Campaign Management Analyst with LexisNexis at Dayton, Ohio. * Sulekha Prasad has been accepted to participate in a six-month paid internship program at Kudumbashree, a poverty reduction program in Kerala, India.  * Neha Kagal was accepted to the PhD program in Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London. It is a three year program and she began in September...

* The Women's and Gender Studies Department congratulates Jillian Hernandez for receiving an offer of a tenure-track assistant professor position in Critical Gender Studies and Ethnic Studies at the University of California – San Diego. She was also awarded a Dissertation Fellowship from the American Association of University Women for her research on “The Politics of Sexual Aesthetics: Women and Girls Crafting Bodies.” She defended her dissertation in March 2013. * Anahi Russo Garrido...