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WGS Faculty Recognized for ‘Timely, Relevant’ Scholarship

Posted on: April 29, 2015

Department chair praises colleagues for challenging 'interconnected systems of oppression in work'

The Department of Women’s & Gender Studies (WGS) in Syracuse University’s College of Arts and Sciences is having another banner year. Several of its professors—Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Dana Olwan, Pedro DiPietro, Himika Bhattacharya, and Minnie Bruce Pratt—have been recognized for their contributions to feminist scholarship.

“Each of these faculty members challenges interconnected systems of oppression in their work," says Vivian May, associate professor and chair of WGS. "As scholar-educators, they draw on intersectional and transnational approaches to find ways to contest injustice and to seek a more just world." Read more at: AS News