Celebrate Women’s History Month 2020
CAH is celebrating Women’s History Month with a variety of events hosted in the library during the month of March.
UCF Celebrates the Arts 2020 Features Inspiration from Dorothy Gillespie
This year’s community art showcase takes place April 7 – 19, with tickets on sale March 2, and includes pieces that honor the late feminist art movement pioneer.
Two CAH faculty honored as Women of Distinction
Two of the three 2019 awardees are from the College of Arts and Humanities.
Pabst Steinmetz Foundation Arts & Wellness Innovation Awards
Apply for the Pabst Steinmetz Foundation Arts & Wellness Innovation Awards now through October 10. Two winners will be selected and receive $25,000 each. The purpose of the awards is to build sustainable models for arts and wellness innovation both across the community and UCF campus.
Mel Stanfill pens book about media fandom
Dr. Mel Stanfill’s new book Exploiting Fandom. Exploiting Fandom examines how the relationship of media industries to fans is shaped by heteronormativity, whiteness, consumption, copyright law and labor.
Author Fayeza Hasanat reads from The Bird Catcher and Other Stories
On March 5, UCF writer and professor Fayeza Hasanat read selections from her new book of short stories, “The Bird Catcher and Other Stories.”
Reading Room opens in Women's and Gender Studies
The Bell Hooks Reading Room in Women’s and Gender Studies is now open for readers.
WGST wins Community Grant with Farmworker Association of Florida
The Burnett Honors College gave the research team of Dr. M. C. Santana (Director, UCF Women’s and Gender Studies program) and Jeannie Economos (Farmworker Association of Florida) a community grant for their project “Exploring communication realities among Black and Brown Farmworkers in Apopka: A Service Learning Outreach Project with the Farmworker Association of Florida” for an in-depth look at how both ethnic and racial groups work with one another.
Wells Fargo Community Grant for the Young Women Leaders Program
Dr. Bubriski-McKenzie receives a $5000 Community Grant from Wells Fargo – Orlando for the Young Women Leaders Program (YWLP). This grant provides the necessary resources to effectively run YWLP for one year. In addition to needed supplies, food and programming materials, the Wells Fargo Community Grant also allows for additional workshops in STEM with MadScience, financial literacy with Wells Fargo, and career exploration with local women professionals!
Activist Legend at UCF
Dolores Huerta, legend, labor activist and social justice fighter will be visiting UCF on October 30, 2018 from 12:00-2:00. Please join us at the Key West Ballroom at the Student Union. All are welcome! Remember her famous words: “Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change […]