Antimicrobials, the Microbiome, and Reproducing “Toxic Sterility”
By Andrea Ford, University of Chicago On a warm October Friday in 2014, during my anthropological fieldwork on childbearing in the Bay Area, I was walking down a Santa Cruz […]
2017-2018 CSW Travel Grant Recipients
CSW is proud to introduce our 2017-2018 cohort of Travel Grant Recipients. Funded through donations from friends and supporters of the Center for the Study of Women, travel grants assist […]
2018 CSW Award Recipients
We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2018 CSW awards! Penny Kanner Dissertation Research Fellowship A CSW Research Affiliate from 1990-2016, Penny Kanner funded this research fellowship to recognize […]
Call for GSR Applications: 2019 Thinking Gender Conference Coordinator
DEADLINE EXTENDED! APPLICATIONS DUE JUNE 15, 2018 @ 11:59 PM. The Center for the Study of Women (CSW) is accepting applications for the 2019 Thinking Gender Conference Coordinator. This Graduate […]
Why the Gender Gap on Asbestos Exposure is Getting Smaller
Chemical Entanglements is an ongoing research project about gender and exposure. Learn more here. By Emily Walsh Many people have heard of asbestos, but they may not be aren’t fully […]
An Open Conversation about Institutional Barriers: Impressions and Reflections from Sara Ahmed’s Visiting Seminar
By Clara Wilch Near the end of a largely open-format and fascinating conversation between the distinguished thinker and author, Sara Ahmed, and a group of graduate students, Ahmed offered some […]
Before “Time’s Up”: Paula Williams Madison, Diversity Advocate
Paula Williams Madison will give the keynote address at CSW’s 2018 Awards and Benefit Luncheon. Date: Thursday, May 31 Time: 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM Location: UCLA Luskin Conference Center […]
‘Divieto dare da Mangiare’: Migrant Angst and Policing the Edible in Italy
“[Ventimiglia community members and activists came to the train station to offer free meals, but didn’t clean up]; so, to other people who went to the station maybe it seemed […]
1,4-dioxane, Bioremediation, and Women’s Health
By Sophia Sidhu As an undergraduate student researcher for the UCLA Center for the Study of Women’s Chemical Entanglement group, I am currently conducting research on the presence of toxic […]
An Evening of Art, Health, and Thinking Gender
Art walk participants collaborated on haikus that explored the question “what do women need to be healthy?” This example was written by Jackie Curnick and Sheila Maingi. By Drew […]
