News and Announcements
PhD candidate Foluso Oluade inspires natural hair confidence and body positivity in digital hair salons
9/13/21
Foluso Oluade, a doctoral candidate in MWGS, is working on a dissertation project about Black women and digital hair salons. She has her own YouTube channel and has gained over 3,700 followers. Foluso recently spoke on panels about the connections between Madame C J Walker and Black curl artists.
Subscribe to Foluso's YouTube Channel, "Fo Adunni"
Watch panel video: "Partnering With A Pro: Gaining Clarity On Your Natural Hair Journey"
Watch panel video: "Black Tight Curl Artists Rock"
Foluso can also be found on Instagram @fo_adunni_
PhD candidate Pallavi Govindnathan featured in Women and Their Work exhibition
8/26/21
Work by TWU MWGS doctoral candidate, artist and activist Pallavi Govindnathan is featured in the Women & Their Work gallery's inaugural exhibition, "We Know Who We Are. We Know What We Want." Her video, Perennial Annal, will be on display in Austin, Texas, through Sept. 21.
Doctoral candidates participate in [Wo]Mentoring program, diasporic Vietnamese artists panel
8/24/21
Gabriella Sanchez, a doctoral candidate in MWGS, was accepted into the [Wo]Mentering in Graduate Education Program for her project entitled “Conocimiento in Action: Exploring and Executing the Publication Processes through Concimiento Press, LLC.”
Kathy Nguyen, a doctoral candidate in MWGS, was invited to speak on a panel entitled “Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN) Memory & Identity” this summer.
Texas Woman’s graduate student receives second International Peace Scholarship
7/21/21
Elizabeth Timothy, a master’s student in the Texas Woman’s University Multicultural Women’s and Gender Studies Program, has been awarded the Philanthropic Educational Organization’s prestigious International Peace Scholarship for the second year in a row. Timothy’s award will allow her to continue pursuing her studies at TWU and develop two projects that support underserved women in Kenya.
Dr. Phillips-Cunningham teaches first TWU-Spelman College cross-listed course
6/10/21
Dr. Danielle Phillips-Cunningham, Multicultural Women’s and Gender Studies Program Director, taught a new course about labor in the spring semester. It was entitled “Covid-19 & Black Workers: Race, Gender, and Labor.” It was also the first cross-listed course between TWU and Spelman College (a historically Black women’s college founded in 1881 in Atlanta, Georgia).