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Annie Contractor

Annie Contractor is the Policy Director at RuralProgress and RuralOrganizing.org. Annie is bridging the gap between community organizing and community development by resourcing rural civic leaders...
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Dr. Dede Fairchild Ruggles receives Inaugural Presidential Humanities and Social Science Endowed Chair

We are happy to announce that WGGP Faculty Affiliate and Professor of Landscape Architecture Dr. Dede Fairchild Ruggles will receive the Inaugural Presidential Humanities and Social Science...
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Common Differences II. Keynote Lecture by Dr. Amina Mama (University of California, Davis). April 4, 2024.

On April 4, 2024 WGGP hosted keynote lecture by Dr. Amina Mama (University of California, Davis) on Transnational Feminist Praxis in an Age of Genocide” as a part of Transnational...
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Dr. Min Zhan named as WGGP Director

Prof. Min Zhan of the School of Social Work has been appointed Director of WGGP beginning August 16.  Min brings a long history of collaboration with WGGP and its Gender Relations in International Development interdisciplinary graduate minor, which is housed in the School of Social Work, where...

Walk in her Shoes: War-bounded Syrian refugee women and their gender roles

On April 3rd, 2024, Dr. Kolia, an Illinois alumna with a Ph.D. in the School of Social Work and a graduate minor in Gender Relations in International Development, shared information about Reaching...
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"Resilience Amidst Repression: The Chinese Feminist Movement in the Era of Escalating Authoritarianism"

On September 12, 2023, As part of the IGI series 'China and the World', WGGP hosted Lü Pin, a PhD student in political science at Rutgers University, who talked about "Resilience Amidst Repression:...
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Rita and Arnold Goodman Fellow

Mahbubeh Moqadam, born and raised in Tehran, Iran is a third-year Ph.D. student. Mahbubeh holds a bachelor's degree in Sociology from Tehran University, a master's degree in Women and Gender Studies...
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Barbara A. Yates Fellow

Fatou Jobe is a 3rd-year Ph.D. student in sociology from Senegambia. She obtained her BA in economics from the University of Connecticut and completed her master’s degree in African Studies at UIUC....
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The Evelyne Accad and Paul Vieille International Research Awardee

Asmaa Elsayed is currently pursuing her doctorate within the Department of Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership at the  College of Education. Her academic journey is marked by...
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