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Finding the Movement -- Kirsten Leng offers new First Year Seminar on Running

Professor Kirsten Leng is teaching an exciting First Year Seminar in the Fall! Interested students should contact Professor Leng ([email protected]) directly.

April 15, 2026
WGSS Grad Certificate Program Profiled in Inside UMass

Bridging Disciplines Through Feminist Studies and Scholarship  

"Feminist Studies offers graduate students opportunity to critically examine their own disciplinary locations, strengthen interdisciplinary methodologies and opportunity to teach in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies programs and departments.

For [Bex] Staneslow, it has already reshaped both her scholarship and her sense of belonging.

'I am so grateful to the UMass Amherst WGSS community,' she said. 'I hope that in the next phase of my career, I will be able to find an intellectual community like this one.'"

March 11, 2026
Upcoming JEI Speaker Event

emareena danielles will be speaking to the Teaching and Learning in Carceral Spaces seminar group on trauma-responsive pedagogy in carceral spaces on October 28th.

September 30, 2025
Parenting Toward Abolition: Jail Education Initiative hosts roundtable book talk

On April 1, 2025, the Jail Education Initiative hosted a roundtable conversation on We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition (Haymarket Books, 2024). The event featured book contributors D'Marria Monday and Nadine Naber and co-editor Kim Wilson. It was moderated by JEI Director Laura Ciolkowski.

 

April 7, 2025
Professor Laura Ciolkowski Wins 2025 Distinguished Community Engaged Service Award

Professor Laura Ciolkowski, faculty in the Department of WGSS and Director of the Jail Education Initiative, has won the 2025 Distinguished Community Engaged Service Award.

April 7, 2025
Reports from the May 7th Encampment

student reflections on the may 7 encampment and the popular university for gaza at UMass this spring

May 24, 2024
Letter: Condemning UMass administration’s response to May 7 encampment

WGSS unanimously opposes the use of police force on protestors

May 10, 2024

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