2023 NWSA Conference Presenters from BGSU

BGSU represented at the National Women's Studies Association this year in Baltimore! Just look at the impressive contributions from BGSU Women's Studies and American Culture Studies !

Dr. Rachel Dean-Ruzicka (ACS Phd, WGSS Grad Certificate alum) presented “Stay Sexy and Don’t Get Murdered:” An Unexpected Rallying Cry for Feminist Fans of True Crime

Dr. Sidra Lawrence (BGSU Ethnomusicology professor, WGSS affiliated faculty) presented “Expansive Ethnographic Engagements: Embodied Performance as African Feminist Praxis”

Dr. Jeannie Ludlow (BGSU ACS PhD, former Director of WGSS at BGSU) presented "The Clinic Stays Open!" (for now): Violence and Resistance, post-Dobbs.

Dr. Mary Maxfield (ACS M.A. alum, and former WGSS TA!) presented "Out of Place: Lesbian and Queer Community Formation in St. Louis" Dr. Maxfield is currently a post-doc in Women's and Gender Studies at Saint Louis University

Dr. Sarah Rainey-Smithback (WGSS Director at BGSU) presented "Watching Rape and Disability"

Dr. Stevie Scheurich (ACS PhD, WGSS Grad Certificate alum) is currently a Women's Studies professor at Purdue University, and they presented "Resistance is a Sacred Act: Queer Feminist Activist Religions in the Fight Against Christian Nationalism”

Dr. Kimberly Stanley (BGSU Ethnic Studies professor, WGSS affiliated faculty) presented "Teaching and Transgressing in Flux"

Dr. Kelly Watson (BGSU ACS Phd, WGSS Grad Certificate alum), currently at Women and Gender Studies professor at West Virginia University, presented "Prions and Predators: D. Carleton Gajdusek, Medical Colonialism and the Exploitation of Pacific Islander Children"

Dr. Radhika Gajjala (BGSU Media and Communication professor, WGSS affiliated faculty), Ololade Faniyi (ACS M.A. alum, currently PhD student in Women’s Studies at Emory), Dr. Sarah Ford (ACS PhD alum), and Dr. Emily Edwards (ACS PhD alum, currently at professor St. Francis College) presented “They don’t know who we are but they inspired us nonetheless”

Dr. Angela Clark-Taylor (former Director of BGSU Center for Women’s and Gender Equity) presented “Survey Says…: Revisiting, Reclaiming & Re-Imagining the State of WGSS in the U.S.”