The Department of Women and Gender Studies (WGST) welcomes applications for the Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship for Faculty Diversity Program. For detailed program information, including eligibility requirements, the CU Boulder application process and timeline, and the application portal, please see: /postdoctoralaffairs/current-postdocs/chancellors-postdoctoral-fellowship-diversity-program. It is a competitive application process, first at the department level and then the university level.

To be considered as a ranked departmental nominee, materials (as listed below) need to be submitted to the Department of Women and Gender Studies by October 1, 2024. Please note this is one month ahead of the required university deadline of November 1.

Internal Application for the Department of Women and Gender Studies

Applicants should begin the process by contacting a possible mentor among the WGST faculty as soon as possible. If the WGST faculty member agrees to consider mentorship, the applicant should send them the follow materials by October 1st:

• Curriculum Vitae (CV)
• Personal Statement (guidelines on the university's )
• Writing Sample

The WGST faculty will review applicant dossiers in order to rank all applicants. We are only able to nominate the very top-ranked candidates to the university review committee. Applicants will be advised of the department’s decision by October 18. The University of Colorado Boulder applicant deadline is November 1.

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For an updated list of educational resources on Palestine and the war in Gaza please visit the . 

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This special issue inaugurates a scholarly and creative conversation that seeks to detach the future of Kashmir from the narrative, aesthetic, and political frames of powerful nation-states that have sought to keep Kashmiris confined to a long and seemingly enduring colonial present. It seeks, moreover, to inspire radical imaginations of possible futures in danger of foreclosure by occupying states, and asks us to think about occupation as a temporal as well as spatial regime.

Check out the special issue and read the , made freely available.

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The Janet Jacobs Honors Colloquium is named after Professor Janet Jacobs in honor of her more than thirty-five years as an esteemed member of the WGST department and her 8 years as Program Director for the Arts and Science Honors Program. Professor Janet Jacobs is Professor of Distinction in Women and Gender Studies. Her research focuses on ethnic and religious violence, gender, mass trauma, and collective memory. She is author of numerous books and journal articles, including Divine Disenchantment: Deconverting from New Religions (1989), Victimized Daughters: Incest and the Development of the Female Self (1994), Hidden Heritage: The Legacy of the Crypto-Jews (2002), Memorializing the Holocaust: Gender, Genocide and Collective Memory (2010), and The Holocaust Across Generations: Trauma and Its Inheritance Among Descendants of Survivors (2016). Her current work is on genocide, collective memory, and counter memorialization. She is the recipient of numerous book awards and in 2005 she received the Hazel Barnes Prize, the most prestigious single faculty award granted by the University of Colorado Boulder.

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In a chapter written for the recently published , Celeste Montoya, a University of Colorado Boulder associate professor of women and gender studies, demonstrates how social movements and community activism have played a vital role in shaping Latina legislative leadership in Colorado.

Check out the full ¡Sí, ella puede! article in A&S magazine!

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CU Boulder Professor’s, Emmanuel David and Yumi Janairo Roth are highlighted in local newspapers, The Ampersand Podcast, and more for their collaboration in “We Are Coming” a traveling art installation showcased at the . The exhibit examines how the myth of the cowboy exists today, with regard to gender archetypes, assumptions and relationships between the cowboy and the land, aiming to break apart the homogenous ideal of the cowboy as a white, cisgender, American male contemporarily and across history.

• Podcast episode of The Ampersand, ""

• Press Coverage. We Are Coming, a collaboration between Yumi Janairo Roth and Emmanuel David, receives shouts outs in and .

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Dr. Samira Mehta has been honored by a committee of distinguished faculty to receive the 2023 Provost's Faculty Achievement Award. The faculty committee highlighted the impact of Mehta's body of work in the areas of Jewish American culture and race and sexuality since World War II, with a focus on interfaith and mixed-race families, as well as acknowledged Mehta's ability to combine important academic scholarship with more accessible, public writing. Congratulations Dr. Mehta!

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"Across multiple worlds in upheaval, a curious cast of Black queer characters must choose between what they already know themselves to be and what they might yet become in the cataclysm. At once tender and audacious, Nathan Alexander Moore’s debut collection tells the stories of extraordinary creatures making impossible but human decisions. Traversing apocalypses both big and small, these captivating tales vibrate with the tensions between loss and growth; self and community; precarity and possibility."

For more information on Dr. Moore's new book and a for a curated playlist to accompany the book .

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