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2025-2026
Year in Review!
The 2025-2026 academic year was full of record programming and new beginnings!
  • hosted 12 lecture series' speakers in our department
  • co-sponsored 5 campus events including 2 conference keynotes
  • ran 1 international UNESCO panel
  • received 2 Anonymous Fund grants
  • awarded 17 annual scholarships
  • launched a new! student collective with corresponding speaker series
  • launched a new! departmental affiliate tea series
CRGW Student Collective: FLOW Feminist Leaders for Opportunity and Wellness
The De Cleene Student Leadership Series launched the new student collective, FLOW wherein students organized events with their unique goals and perspectives in mind!
  • workshops on leadership values, failure, and resilience
  • a session on meditative mindfulness
  • a dinner and discussion on personal finance
Are you a UW-Madison student interested in joining FLOW?
Strategize exciting GWS events and build your resume as a leader! Contact: tlemaster@wisc.edu
CRGW De Cleene Student Leadership Series
De Cleene Student Leadership Series offered a variety of lectures!

  • a James Beard Award-Winning film with executive producer Q&A
  • women in elected office
  • strategic local advocacy
CRGW Co-Sponsorships Include Keynotes
The CRGW co-sponsored multiple events, helping bring esteemed keynotes to major conferences!
  • Women's and Gender Studies Consortium Conference, Heidi Lewis
  • Gender and Women's Studies 50th Anniversary, Brittney Cooper
Read about Brittney Cooper's keynote talk in The Daily Cardinal.
CRGW Colloquium Series
The CRGW Colloquium Series included cutting-edge scholarship for faculty, grads, and affiliates with talks and a panel!
  • Asian American abolition feminisms
  • African women's lives across borders
  • tween girls and social media
  • black feminist fugitivity
CRGW UNESCO Co-Chair
The CRGW is the UNESCO Co-Chair on Gender, Wellbeing and a Culture of Peace. In this capacity, the CRGW hosted a parallel virtual event to the 70th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women!

  • see the full video recording
  • international, intergenerational, interdisciplinary
  • expert keynote panel, discussion on activism, breakout sessions

CRGW Award Winners

Celebrate the 2025-2026 CRGW award winners!

  • includes 10 Kaplan Awards in LGBTQ+ Studies!
  • Read about all award recipients' plans, projects, and bios on our webpage.
  • Our current Wittig Postdoctoral Recipient in Feminist Biology, Alexandra Kralick, has published her new manuscript during her tenure at the CRGW, now in The American Journal of Biological Anthropology!
CRGW Says Goodbye to Original Location
As our department moves into Levy Hall this Fall 2026, we said goodbye to the CRGW's room in Sterling Hall where so many of our events have been held with gratitude since the Center's inception two decades ago. Here's to new beginnings in Levy Hall!
Next Year!

Join the CRGW next year for exciting new programming, including two conferences!

  • Decade of Advocacy, Community Engagement and Research: University of Wisconsin’s UNESCO Co-Chair on Gender, Wellbeing and a Culture of Peace

  • What is the University For?: Explorations of Transformative Learning, Critical Inquiry, and Liberatory Potential

Donations
Like the work you see here? Consider donating to help the CRGW host more exciting events, scholarship, and research!

  • The Department of Gender and Women's Studies Giving Page outlines need and use of support.

  • You can even donate to a specific CRGW student award, the Leavitt-Worcester-Whatley Award! Read more about that Award on our Giving Page, and on its award application page.
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Christine Garlough, PhD
Director, Center for Research on Gender and Women; Professor of Gender & Women's Studies
clgarlough@wisc.edu
 
Tracy Lemaster, PhD
Coordinator, Center for Research on Gender and Women; Women's and Gender Studies Consortium
tlemaster@wisc.edu

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