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Winter 2019

Winter term offerings, including FIVE brand-new courses on topics ranging from poverty to Buddhism, black queer literature and film to women's writing in India, and the quantification of human bodies.
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Welcome Jacque Wernimont!

Professor Jacque Wernimont joins WGSS this year, and is teaching the brand-new course WGSS 57.01, Data and Bodies, in Winter 2019.
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Versailles Meets the Taj Mahal

Read an interview with Faith Beasley, one of the directors of the Hyderabad FSP Program, about her new book Versailles Meets the Taj Mahal.
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WGSS Major, Minor Receive Fulbrights

Of the fifteen current or former Dartmouth students who received Fulbright awards this year, two were majors or minors in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
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Two Affiliated Faculty Members Awarded Guggenheims

Congratulations to Professors Craig and Warren!
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Julia Dressel ’17 and Research That Went Viral

Julia Dressel '17 says that that her much-publicized research might not have happened without her background in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality studies.
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Documentary Makes the Film Festival Circuit

A recent documentary examines the impact of experiential learning to students and inmates.
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Faculty Kudos

Affiliated faculty Roberta Stewart and Julia Rabig have recently been recognized for their work.
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Context for Cabaret

Professor Veronika Fuechtner, a longtime affiliate of WGSS, met recently with the cast of Cabaret to bring context to the show's setting in Weimar Germany.
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Professor Ackerman, WGSS Chair, Honored for Teaching

Awarded the 2017 Elizabeth Howland Hand-Otis Norton Pierce Award for a Faculty Member Who Is an Outstanding Teacher of Undergraduates
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Recent Publications

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Brown Boys and Rice Queens: Spellbinding Performance in the Asias

Eng-Beng Lim

New York University Press
Devotions and Desires: Histories of Sexuality and Religion in Twentieth-Century United States

Bethany Moreton, et al.

University of North Carolina Press
A Global History of Sexual Science 1880-1960

Veronika Fuechtner, Douglas E. Haynes

University of California Press
Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media (Forthcoming December 2018)

Jacqueline D. Wernimont

The MIT Press

Events

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Jan 23

7:00PM
Orlando Consort "Voices Appeared"
Hopkins Center 123 Spaulding Auditorium

Stellar vocal ensemble’s live score for silent film masterpiece about Joan of Arc transports us back to the 15th century.
Jan 24

12:00AM
Rocky Mini-Grants Application Deadline
Submit Online

Rocky Mini-Grants is a great source of funding for all types of conferences and on or off campus events.
Jan 25

3:30PM
Deeds Not Words: Taking Action to Make Change, Workshop with Wendy Davis
Room 002, Rockefeller Center

Interactive workshop with Wendy Davis, teaching civic engagement skills to women who will use what they learn to organize, advocate for policy change & increase voter participation
Jan 25

5:00PM
Sing-Ins
Paddock Music Library, Hopkins Center

The Sing-Ins are a chance to learn the music of social movements in America, to sing them with others who enjoy making music, and to discuss the questions that such music raises.
Jan 25

7:00PM
Film Special: "Reversing Roe" with Live Guests
Hopkins Center 123 Spaulding Auditorium

A powerful documentary about the debate over reproductive rights. Discussion follows with directors Ricki Stern ’87 & Annie Sundberg ’90, Dr. Colleen McNicholas & Sen. Wendy Davis
Jan 26

11:00AM
GRAND REOPENING
Hood Museum of Art

Join us for a free open house and explore the new Hood Museum of Art!