Lucy Flower was elected to the Board of Trustees in 1895 as the first female trustee and first elected female official in Illinois. She pushed for women's gains at the University, including hiring...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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....