News
On September 17th, 2026, the FREE Center held its 2026 kick-off event, titled “Sexual Violence and Accountability at OSU and Beyond: Feminist Conversations.” The event was held in Thompson Library…
On the afternoon of April 28th, WGSS hosted its Annual Spring Reception and Undergraduate Research Symposium. The event kicked off with eight WGSS undergraduate students…
On September 19-20th, the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies hosted a celebration for its 50th Anniversary. Throughout the 2-day event, the department’s current students, faculty,…
In mid-September, the FREE Center hosted its fall kick-off event, "Transforming the Landscape: Revisiting Feminist Research & Teaching in this Moment." The theme echoed and built upon a February…
The FREE Center is starting a new initiative with the purpose of supporting community-engaged research and creative projects. We invite proposals from research clusters (both new and previously…
In late August, the FREE Center hosted its fall kickoff event, "Imagine New Worlds: Using the Freedom Dreaming Pedagogy Tool".
The event began with a reception, which offered attendees the…
The Center for Feminist Research, Education, and Engagement (FREE Center) is pleased to announce the recipients of the Graduate Small Grants for Feminist Scholarship. These grants offer…
The FREE Center wrapped up its second year of events and programming with the two-day Feminism in the Americas Symposium. The symposium was organized in collaboration with the Center for Latin…
This March, the FREE Center was honored to host prominent scholar and activist Loretta Ross. Loretta Ross is one of the founding members of SisterSong and Women of Color Reproductive…
On February 28, more than 30 faculty and graduate students across disciplines gathered together to discuss tools and strategies for feminist teaching and research in this political…
What's New in WGSS?
WGSS students work with faculty in cutting-edge research, internship, and service-learning opportunities. This Spring, for the very first time, we are offering…
The Ohio State University Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation through its “Affirming Multivocal Humanities”…
It’s been a busy first year for the Ohio State Center for Feminist Research, Education and Engagement (FREE Center).
From launching Research and Connection Clusters to hosting community…
May 1, 2024
We, the undersigned faculty, staff, and members of the WGSS community, express our deep concern regarding the violent treatment of protesters…
The Center for Feminist Research, Education and Engagement (FREE Center) is pleased to announce the recipients of the inaugural Graduate Small Grants for Feminist Scholarship. These…
OHIO — Making an impact beyond the campus of Ohio State University is at the forefront as professors and staff work to expand prison education.
The efforts are a part of the university’s…
This spring, the FREE Center awarded funding to twelve Research and Connection Clusters that bring together faculty, graduate students and community partners to advance feminist scholarship around…
On April 1, more than 50 faculty, staff, students and community members attended the FREE Center’s inaugural event, “WTF (What the Feminist) is Happening in Ohio Politics?! Feminists Engage with…
The Center for Feminist Research, Education and Engagement (FREE Center) is pleased to announce Graduate Small Grants for Feminist Scholarship, a new funding opportunity for Ohio…
The Ohio State Center for Feminist Research, Education and Engagement (FREE Center) is pleased to announce that it has awarded funding to 11 Research and Connection Clusters for the spring 2024…
The Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies stands in solidarity and care with trans* and gender variant youth and their families and trans* and gender variant people of all ages in…
The Ohio State Center for Feminist Research, Education, and Engagement (FREE Center) is pleased to announce two new initiatives for 2024: faculty-led research and connection clusters and a writing…
More than 35 feminist scholars from across the university gathered on Nov. 15 to mark the launch of the new Ohio State Center for Feminist Research, Education, and Engagement (FREE Center).
When Leslie Rombkowksi was imprisoned at Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville, she wanted to continue her education. But there was a waitlist for Sinclair Community College courses.
…
WGSS faculty member Dionne Lee has been selected as a featured artist in the upcoming campus exhibit "Abject Object: Feminism, Art & the Academy." The exhibit which has been…
WGSS Lecturer Desiree Tims was recently interviewed for a Vanity Fair article concerning ballot measures in Ohio and their impact on reproductive justice. Speaking on the August 8th special…
Graduating WGSS majors Danni Patterson and Lily Furgeson and WGSS minor Kelsey Lowman have been awarded prestigious University wide awards.
…
The video recording of the Gender & Reproductive Justice: A Community Panel Discussion, held on September 14, 2022, is now available for the public to view! Click here to watch the video now.
WGSS associate professor Dr. Mary Thomas and affiliated professor Dr. Tiyi Morris were recently profiled in Ohio State News for securing a $480,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation. Drs. Thomas…
"Over the last decade, I stopped using the term “sex trafficking.” In practice, “sex trafficking” reflects an approach to anti-trafficking that conflates trafficking with sex work. Standard US and…
WGSS associate professor Jenny Suchland and graduate teaching associate Jessica Tjiu were recently profiled in Ohio State News for their work as the curation research team on the "Beyond Guilt"…
Fifth-year Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies minor Kelsey Lowman was named Homecoming Royalty at the 2022 homecoming celebration on October 1. Lowman was part of an historic court that elected…
The Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies department of Ohio State University condemns the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which ends the…
In an effort to aid trans students within Arts and Sciences, WGSS Master's alumnus ('13) and current WGSS staff member Jackson Stotlar has founded the Transgender and Allies Student Support Fund…
This fellowship brings together a cohort of graduate students whose projects intersect with one or more of the GAHDT Focus Areas – providing students with an opportunity to gain…
Every spring, the Ohio State Office of Outreach and Engagement honors faculty, staff, students and community partners engaged in scholarship that impacts the community.
The 2022 Community…
Though America, Goddam is rich in theory, history and research, Treva Lindsey, associate professor of women’s, gender and sexuality studies, wrote it from the perspective…
Russia and its authoritarian government, led by Russian President Vladimir Putin, launched an unprovoked invasion of the democratic and sovereign state of Ukraine. This invasion violates…
The Ohio State University Department of Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies mourns the loss of legendary Black feminist scholar, activist, and public intellectual bell hooks…
WGSS second year MA student Madeleine McClung recently authored an op-ed featured in the Columbus Dispatch. McClung's piece, "''Fake healthcare centers' using taxpayer money to spread lies about…
80 high school students from South High School and Marion Franklin High School are participating in the opioid-prevention program across the course of the semester. To thank the students for their…
Please join us on Wednesday, October 27 at 11:30 am EST on zoom for an in depth discussion of Dr. Mytheli Sreenivas' forthcoming book, Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India. …
The leaves may be turning on campus but spring is in the air as course registration has officially opened for Spring Semester 2022! The department is excited to offer a host of old favorites, in…
WGSS kicks off the 2021-2022 academic year in fierce fashion with "Abolition Is...", a Teach In on the meanings, practice, and horizons of abolition. Organized by WGSS faculty member Dr. Jenny…
WGSS Academic Program Coordinator Jackson Stotlar recently received a 2021 Distinguished Staff Award!
The Distinguished Staff Award is the most prestigious university award that is given to…
Lidia Garcia, recent OSU graduate with degrees in WGSS and Public Affairs, was recently awarded a Distinguished Diversity Enhancement Award!
The award is annually given to five individuals…
WGSS Ph.D. Candidate Lesia Pagulich recently was awarded a 2021-2022 Presidential Fellowship!
The Presidential Fellowship is offered to graduates during the spring and fall of each year and…
WGSS Associate Professor Jian Chen recently received the 2021 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award!
Each year, the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) gives this…
WGSS Senior Lidia Garcia Berrelleza recently received the 2021 Outstanding Senior Award!
The Outstanding Senior Award is a type of Student Life Leadership Award, given each year by the…
In Autumn 2020, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies launched a new LGBTQ+ Studies minor, available to undergraduate students across the university. Professor Shannon Winnubst, professor and…
Sabrina Hersi Issa, CEO of Be Bold Media and OSU graduate, recently awarded the first ever Bold Prize, an annual award created to recognize young Black women who are courageously calling for…
Professor Shannon Winnubst, professor and chair of WGSS, was recently featured as a guest on Voices of Excellence, the College of Arts and Sciences' podcast.
Voices of Excellence is a…
Dr. Treva Lindsey discusses the erasure and lack of justice for Black women and girls in the movement against police brutality in her article, “The Lack of Mobilized Outrage for Police Killing…
4. June 2020
The Department of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies stands in solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter, #SayHerName, #blacktranslivesmatter, and all activists and…
WGSS Ph.D. Candidate Mahaliah Little recently received the AAUW Dissertation Fellowship!
Awarded by the American Association of University Women (AAUW), the Dissertation Fellowship is given…
WGSS professors Dr. Treva Lindsey and Dr. Jennifer Suchland have recently been named 2020 Mellon/ACLS Scholars & Society Fellows!
The Mellon/ACLS Scholars & Society Fellowship is awarded…
WGSS Ph.D. Candidate Tatsiana Shchurko was recently awarded a 2020-2021 Presidential Fellowship!
The Presidential Fellowship is offered to graduates during the spring and fall of each year…
The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program is an educational program with an innovative pedagogical approach tailored to effectively facilitate dialogue across difference. During the semester-long…
Dr. Wendy Smooth, WGSS associate professor and associate dean of diversity, equity and inclusion, recently received the President and Provost's Award for Distinguished Faculty Service! The award…
The Association for Asian Studies awarded Juno Salazar Parreñas (Assistant Professor, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies) the 2020 honorable mention for the Henry J. Benda Prize, which is…
Dr. Juno Parreñas, Assistant Professor in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, was recently awarded the 2019 Michelle Z. Rosaldo Book Prize for her book, Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of…
WGSS professor Dr. Linda Mizejewski was recently nominated and awarded the title of Distinguished College Professor by the College of Arts and Sciences!
The title of Distinguished College…
Mahaliah Little, PhD Candidate in WGSS, recently won the SSRC-Mellon Graduate Studies Enhancement research grant!
Awarded by the SSRC-Mellon Mays Graduate Initiative Program, the Graduate…
Women’s Studies alumna Sabrina Hersi Issa recently won the 2019 Young Alumni Achievement Award!
Each year, the College of Arts and Sciences recognizes several alumni who have contributed to…
Treva Lindsey, Associate Professor in WGSS, recently received the 2019 Diversity Enhancement Faculty Award from the College of Arts and Sciences!
The Diversity Enhancement Faculty Award is…
Former PhD student Dr. Sara Riva has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship, a very prestigious European fellowship that will allow her to expand her dissertation findings for the next…
WGSS Professor Mary Thomas is one of the recipients of the 2019 Ronald and Deborah Ratner Distinguished Teaching Award!
The Ratner is an award of up to $20,000 that goes to tenured faculty…
WGSS Professor Juno Salazar Parreñas was recently featured on Black Agenda Report's Book Forum.
Black Agenda Report is a force for news, commentary, and analysis from the black left. Roberto…
WGSS PhD Student Marie Lerma recently received the Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme Fellowship!
WGSS Ph.D. Candidate Kristen Kolenz was recently awarded a 2018-2019 Presidential Fellowship!
The Presidential Fellowship, offered to graduates during the spring and fall of each year, is…
Professor Juno Salazar Parreñas’s recent collaboration with the artist Ines Lechleitner was broadcasted on Austrian national public radio station Ö1 during their Kunstradio (art radio) program on…
WGSS alum Dr. Amanda Rossie recently had a part of her dissertation published online in the journal Feminist Media Studies.
Feminist Media Studies is a journal that aims to provide a…
Dr. Treva Lindsey, professor of WGSS, was recently featured as a guest on the webcast Left of Black: Black Studies for the Digital Soul.
Left of Black is a webcast hosted by Dr. Mark…
The Dana Greenblatt Award is named for WGSS alumna Dana Greenblatt, and is annually awarded to chosen student and faculty applicants. In order to be considered, applicants must submit a narrative…
WGSS students Mason Hickman and Imani Harris have recently been awarded The 2018 Columbus Foundation Summer Fellowships!
Now in its ninth year, The Columbus Foundation Summer…
WGSS Ph.D. candidate Sara Rodríguez-Argüelles Riva recently wrote an article that was featured on Oxford’s Border Criminologies blog, titled “Encounters of US State Violence at the Border:…
WGSS Administrative Manager Lynaya Elliott has recently received a 2018 Distinguished Staff Award!
The Distinguished Staff Award is the most prestigious university award that is given to…
WGSS professor Guisela Latorre was recently featured on Ohio Habla: 100% Latin@ Talk, a podcast about Latinx heritage and language in Ohio. The podcast, born out from an oral history project about…
WGSS major Allison Susor delivered an oral presentation of her undergraduate thesis research at the Denman Undergraduate Research Forum on April 3rd. Her research, titled "Role Model Effect and…
Juno Salazar Parreñas, Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, has received a Deutsches Akademisches Austausch Dienst (DAAD) Research Stay for University Academics…
WGSS Professor Jill Bystydzienski has recently received the Harlan Hatcher Arts and Sciences Distinguished Faculty Award!
The Harlan Hatcher Award, first established in 2002 with…
Dr. Wendy Smooth, associate professor in WGSS, has recently received the Larry M. Lewellen Award for Distinguished Service from the Council of Graduate Students!
The Lewellen Award is…
Hysterical! Women in American Comedy, co-edited by WGSS professor Linda Mizejewski, was selected for the Susan Koppelman Award for the Best Anthology, Multi-Authored, or Edited Book in…
Jonathan Branfman, Ph.D. candidate with the WGSS department, was recently awarded a 2017-2018 Presidential Fellowship!
The Presidential Fellowship, offered to graduates during the…
Dr. Mytheli Sreenivas, Associate Professor in WGSS and History, has won The Ronald and Deborah Ratner Distinguished Teaching Award!
The Ratner is an award of up to $20,000 that goes…
This summer, a small group of OSU students, including several of our own WGSS students, took a trip to New York City to attend the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, which is hosted in different…
Juno Salazar Parreñas recently discussed her forthcoming book, Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation, with Berlin-based sound artists Island Songs (Nicolas…
Joshua Truett and Hannah Dodd, two students currently studying at OSU for their doctoral degrees, are the winners of the 2017-2018 Dana Greenblatt Feminist Media Award!
The Dana…
Treva Lindsey, Associate Professor of the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies department, has recently published her first book, Colored No More: Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington, D…
We are happy to announce that WGSS was recently awarded two of twenty fellowships for the 2017 Mellon/ACLS Competition.
Dr. Amanda Rossie received her Ph.D. from WGSS at…
We are happy to announce the department's newest faculty member, A. Marie Ranjbar.
Azita will have completed her dissertation from Penn State University in the fields of…
Sara Rodriguez-Arguelles Riva, WGSS Ph.D. candidate, was recently awarded a 2017-2018 Presidential Fellowship. The Presidential Fellowship is the most prestiguous award given by the Graduate School…
Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Administrative Manager, Lynaya Elliott was recognized on Wednesday, April 12th for winning the Arts and Sciences Outstanding Staff Award.
The ASC…
Hosting a series of conversations, Ohio State is inspiring meaningful dialogue to ignite change in our communities, schools and workplaces that create environments where women of all backgrounds…
As the 2016 Presidential election takes center stage in the battleground Buckeye State, Ohio State experts are studying changes to voting laws, the role of gender and race in voter turnout, and…
The course, “Women and Addiction: A Feminist Perspective,” offered by the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) since 2008 and first created by Victoria Genetin topped a list…
Juno Parrenas, Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, presented her research on orangutan conservation and forced copulation at the International Primatological Society…
This year, faculty in the Division of Arts and Humanities of the College of Arts and Sciences were invited to submit proposals to help develop focus areas of significance to education in the…
The Coca-Cola Critical Difference for Women Research Grants is happy to announce the 2016-2017 winners!
Faculty Award WinnersBrehm, Hollie Nyseth, Sociology – Understanding Women…
Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Professor Lynn Itagaki was interviewed Monday, April 18th by Rising Up with Sonali on her new book Civil Racism: The 1992 Los Angeles Rebellion and the…
The Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies is proud to announce the inauguration of the first graffiti mural on the OSU campus titled Formación. This title speaks of the constant…
The TEDx Program is designed to help communities, organizations and individuals to spark conversation and connection through local TED-like experiences. At TEDx events, a screening of TED Talks…
Professor Jennifer Suchland's essay, "The Missing “P” in U.S. Anti-Trafficking Law" was recently featured on The Feminist Wire. Suchland's essay reveals how current reponses to sex trafficking…
Nicole recently completed her Ph.D. in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies with a Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization in Folklore from The Ohio State University. She has extensive…
Professor Treva Lindsey, assistant professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies wrote Cosmopolitan article "The Rape Trial Everyone in American Should Be Watching" that was published Tuesday…
Professor Wendy Smooth, associate professor of Women's Gender & Sexuality Studies and chair of Undergraduate Studies, has been invited to participate Friday, November 13th in an all-day White…
We are pleased to announce that Professor Guisela Latorre will serve as the department's Interim Chair for the 2015-2016 acacemic year. Professor Latorre previously served as summer chair in 2011…
Professor Katherine Marino received the 2015 Judith Lee Ridge Prize at the Western Association of Women Historians conference (May 14-16 in Sacrmento, California) for her article “Marta Vergara,…
Lainie Rini, WGSS 4th-year student won the Undergraduate Student Award for Excellence in Community Service. Lainie Rini has been involved with community organizing since her first year at Ohio…
The University of Chile, the flagship institution of higher education in the country, invited Professor Guisela Latorre to present her research on Chilean graffiti and muralism taking place on…
Jonathan Branfman, WGSS PhD student won the Graduate Associate Teaching Award, the university’s highest recognition of the exceptional teaching provided by graduate students at Ohio State. Award…
Dr. Yana Hashamova, Professor of Slavic Studies (PI) and Dr. Jennifer Suchland, Associate Professor of Slavic Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (co-PI) have been awarded a two…
Jill Bystydzienski, professor and chair of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright Scholar Grant. Bystydzienski will be affiliated with the Robert B. Zajonc…
On March 5th, Senator Elizabeth Warren posted a video on Facebook of a recent speech in which she discussed the decline of the middle class and criticized Republicans in Congress.
In this…
Professor Mizejewski’s Pretty/Funny: Women Comedians and Body Politics is now out on paperback from University of Texas Press. Please see funny celebratory Liz Lemons meme!
Also, Professor…
Professor Jennifer Suchland was awarded an Arts & Humanities Large Grant for a new research project entitled: Domesticating Human Trafficking: Resignifying Violence in the United States.
Her…
Professor Linda Mizejewski's Pretty/Funny: Women Comedians and Body Politics (Univeristy of Texas Press, 2014) won honorable mention in two national book competitions: The Emily Toth Award for…
WGSS Graduate Student, Krista Benson was elected Co-Chair of The National Women's Studies Association's Graduate Caucus.
Congratulations, Krista!
Mary Thomas and her co-investigator Tommy Davis (English) have received an Arts and Humanities Larger Grant of $18,000 for their new project entitled “Grounding the Anthropocene: A Geontology of…
Getting mistaken for a sex worker may sound far-fetched, but for many women of color it's an unfortunate reality. In a time where racial profiling is a topic of national conversation, how does…
WGSS faculty member Professor Linda Mizejewski appears on the latest New York Times online video documentary "Dingo's Got My Baby": Trial By Media which discusses the feminist implications of the…
In this video the students, faculty and staff of WGSS speak about how diversity is crucial to their studies, research, teaching and in other aspects of their lives and work. This production was…
Following her powerful feminist UN address, nude photo leaks were threatened against Emma Watson. With this in mind, WGSS Professor Treva Lindsey discusses how widespread misogyny works online to…
April 10, 2014, at The Office of Student Life's Disability Services' annual recognition reception "Celebrating 40 Years of Access" awarded WGSS Professors Guisela Latorre and Lynn…
Madina Tlostanova is an internationally known scholar whose writing critically examines questions of epistemology, history, geography, power and identity. Her book Gender Epistemologies…
Katherine M. Marino, Ohio State University, was awarded with the 2014 Lerner-Scott Prize for the best doctoral dissertation in US women’s history.
…On Monday, February 24th Professor Judy Wu, WGSS Chair candidate, gave an open presentation for her vision of the future of WGSS. Watch the video here!
Beyonce's new self-titled album has sparked International debate since she has boldly come out as feminist. On Tuesday, December 17th OSU'S Dr. Treva Lindsey along with journalist, author and…
This year’s Woman to Woman Luncheon was a huge success! YWCA's mission, eliminating racism and empowering women, was the central theme behind this event. With more than 1000 women from diverse…
Thinking Transnational Feminisms Summer Institute July 7-11, 2014 Columbus, Ohio Thinking Transnational Feminisms is a collaborative five-day summer institute organized by and for feminist scholars…
taken from www.societyandspace.com
philoSOPHIA is an international, peer-reviewed journal for scholarship that engages the rich traditions of feminist theory and continental philosophy, both broadly construed. The…
Amanda Rossie's article, "Wrecked and Redeemed: Religio-Political Pedagogy and MTV's 16 and Pregnant," was recently published in an anthology titled, Girls' Sexualities and the Media (Mediated…
Wendy Smooth, associate professor in the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies and senior research fellow with Ohio State’s Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, has…