Gender and Women’s Studies and Film/Media
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Emma Hayes ’22 on Sharing the Stories of Women and Other Marginalized Groups
Emma Hayes ’22 is a double major in gender and women’s studies and communication studies. She’s been able to utilize various platforms to express and promote the stories of women and other oppressed groups thanks to the knowledge and skill set she obtained from both curriculums.
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As a Gender and Women’s Studies major, Juan Loayza-Miranda ’22 has learned to put knowledge into practice. After graduation he plans to begin graduate school in higher education administration to work toward supporting disadvantaged and underrepresented students.
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The Department of Gender and Women’s Studies (GWS) is thrilled to welcome the inaugural Visiting Carlson Scholar this semester, P. Carl. This semester at URI, Carl will engage with students in GWS classes, as well as the broader URI community, to provide trans-awareness programming.
Continue reading "Visiting Carlson Scholar to Facilitate Trans-Awareness Programming"Professor Kathleen McIntyre and Emma Hayes ‘22 on RI Black Women’s Suffrage History
Professor Kathleen McIntyre teaches a course on Give me Suffrage: Voting Rights in the Americas. With her students, she is writing biographical sketches of twelve Providence Black suffragists from the early 1900s. Once finished, the sketches will be published in the Online Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the U.S.
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On, Thursday, Oct. 29, Hilary Levey Friedman, author of Here She Is: The Complicated Reign of the Beauty Pageant in America, will explore the history of the suffrage sash and how it influenced the Miss America Pageant in a free, virtual lecture entitled.
Continue reading "Suffrage and Sashes: URI’s ‘Long Rhode to the Vote’ series continues"Thought Into Action: How a Gen Ed Requirement Led Courtney Hawes to Her Dream Job
Courtney Hawes ’19 signed up for GWS 320: Feminist Thought Into Action, a Gender and Women’s Studies course, to fulfill a general education requirement – and it led her to her dream job.
Continue reading "Thought Into Action: How a Gen Ed Requirement Led Courtney Hawes to Her Dream Job"The One Behind the Curtain: Jill Rounds ‘12 on Being an Area Coordinator
After working in on-campus residency at two different universities in California, Jill Rounds ’12 has now come back to Little Rhody as an area coordinator for the residence halls. “You learn… people skills every day in liberal arts classes,” she says, “and I use those skills every day for my job.”
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Driven by a fine-tuned affinity for the written word, Caelan Ernest fell in love with URI’s Writing and Rhetoric major through the curriculum’s commitment to academic writing.
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“Simply Beautiful” was one of 40 projects presented recently at the Showcase of Undergraduate Research, Scholarly and Creative Works on the Kingston campus. Paola Moreno, who is majoring in psychology and Gender and Women’s Studies, wrote a paper and created a poster. “I decided on this topic because I really want people talking about body positivity and the horrific effect of body shaming on women who are not thin,” she says. “I want to be a role model.”
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University of Rhode Island professor Donna M. Hughes is at the forefront of the movement to end with the launch of an online academic journal, “Dignity,” dedicated to publishing papers about sexual exploitation, violence and slavery.
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