MSUM students are doing amazing things. Our students embrace diversity, challenges, opportunities, unique experiences and continue to produce incredible results. Our students participate in student organizations, attend and present at regional and national conferences, compete at regional and national competitions, collaborate on faculty-mentored projects, gain hands-on experience through internships, help coordinate community service projects, and more. Many have won prestigious scholarships for academic excellence and many have won awards for their stellar work inside and outside of the classroom. See what the students from the Women's and Gender Studies Department are doing.
Suzanne Al-Kayali, Women's and Gender Studies Minor
"The Women's and Gender Studies program at MSUM is amazing. It's very rounded in that we don't have a core group of people who are teachers: it's teachers from all of the disciplines on campus. There's a Women in Biology class and Women in Music class so they take aspects from different disciplines and bring it into Women's and Gender Studies.""I took a 100-level course and that's when I decided that I should be a Women's and Gender Studies minor because it really fits in with all the other curriculum that I'm involved in. It provides another aspect of understanding."
Chelsea Norman, Women's and Gender Studies Major
"Women’s and Gender Studies classes usually only have 20 to 25 people in them. It’s cool because it allows for that group discussion, which is a big part of a lot of the classes. I really like that aspect of the Women’s and Gender Studies Department." "A lot of students hear Women’s Studies and they have this idea of what it is, or think 'I can’t really apply that to what I’m studying' but it can be applied to anything. It shows that you can think about things in a different way, because the courses challenge you to do that and challenge you to think about things you wouldn’t necessarily think about. It will really help any major."
Claudia Murphy, Kandace Creel Falcón and Linda Fuselier, with students Natassja Gunasena and Jamie Holding Eagle, presented their research at the 35th annual Wisconsin Women’s Studies Conference. Papers presented included: “Science, Politics and the Limits of Diversity”, “This is not a how-to manual but an invitation to engage: A Feminist Blogging Manifesto by a Chicana Feminist and a White Feminist Troublemaker” and “Writing Ourselves into History: A Womanist/Feminist Response to White Postmodernism”.
Women’s Studies faculty presented at the National Women’s Studies Conference held in Denver Nov. 11-13, 2010. Claudia Murphy, Kandace Creel Falcón, Linda Fuselier and Anita Bender presented their innovative curriculum enhancements and original research at the National Women’s Studies Association meeting. Fuselier, Murphy and Bender presented “Inclusive Science: Difficult Dialogs between Women’s Studies and the Sciences” and the Kandace Creel Falcón presented, “Planting Roots and Making Claims: Chicanas Navigating Notions of Home and Belonging in the Midwestern ‘Borderlands/La Frontera’”. Also, three Women’s and Gender Studies students, Natassja Gunasena, Jennifer Seviour and Jamie Holding Eagle, represented MSUM at the national Women’s Studies honor society (Iota Iota Iota) meeting.
