✨ Congrats to Lauren Lovings-Gomez, 6th-year Art History PhD & SWGS student! She contributed essays to the recently published  A Room of Her Own: Women Artist-Activists in Britain, 1880–1945 (Yale, Aug 2025). Learn more: bit.ly/3HTVjqB

Join us Oct 21 (Virtual, 5pm CST): Katherine McKittrick on A Smile Split by the Stars. Leading scholar in Black studies & author of Dear Science. Free + open to all. Register here:  bit.ly/GrayWawro

🎉 Congrats to CSWGS Graduate Certificate alum Nathanael J. Homewood! His book Seductive Spirits (Stanford UP, 2024) has won a prize from HSAIG. 📷📷 Explore his groundbreaking work on Pentecostalism, spirit possession & sexuality in Ghana: sup.org/books/anthropo…

⭐️  Faculty Feature ⭐️ New Assistant Professor of Religious Studies & Boniuk Institute Faculty Fellow, Dr. Judith E. Brunton, studies how religion, environment & extraction shape imaginaries of the “good life” in Alberta and beyond. Learn more: profiles.rice.edu/faculty/judith…

Faculty Feature We’re excited to welcome Dr. Taylor J. Damann to Rice! Taylor, an Assistant Professor of Political Science, explores how conflict, gender, and trauma shape political behavior, with work featured in IO, PNAS, CPS, and more! Learn more: profiles.rice.edu/faculty/taylor…

🌟 Faculty Feature 🌟 We’re excited to welcome Dr. Sourav Chatterjee to Rice as Assistant Prof of Transnational Asian Studies! Next semester, he’ll teach Partition Narratives, exploring gender across religious & caste divides! Learn more: profiles.rice.edu/faculty/sourav…

🎉Congrats to Imogen Brown ’25, winner of the 2025 Merfish Award! From launching a local campaign on abortion access to co-founding Rice Students for Reproductive Justice, Imogen’s leadership inspires. Learn more: cswgs.rice.edu/merfish-award/…

🥳 Welcome Dr. Jae-Hee Jung to Rice! Dr. Jung, Assistant Professor of Political Science, studies party politics, political behavior, and gender in Western democracies. Her work appears in AJPS, APSR, and Cambridge UP. 🔗 Learn more: profiles.rice.edu/faculty/jae-he…

📚 #WhatWereReadingWednesday Check out PhD candidate Quinn Georgic’s essay “A Cage of One’s Own? On Interspecies Captive-ation” in Edge Effects! 🔗 Read the article here: edgeeffects.net/interspecies-c… 🔗 Learn more about Quinn: profiles.rice.edu/student/quinn-…

⭐️Faculty Feature Welcome Dr. Ana M. Franco to Rice! As Associate Professor of Art History, she studies 20th-century Latin American abstraction, with a special focus on women artists in CO. Author, curator, and President of ALAA. 🔗Learn more: profiles.rice.edu/faculty/ana-fr…

📚 What We’re Reading Wednesday CSWGS celebrates Sociology PhD student Rita Dexter, Dr. Miranda Waggoner & coauthors on their new Hastings Bioethics Forum essay, “Better Safe than Sorry? Tylenol, Pregnancy, and Ethics.” Read: thehastingscenter.org/better-safe-th…

⭐️  Faculty Feature Dr. Hill’s work explores how memory, environment, and place shape the stories we tell about Texas as well as the South and West. Her recent Texas Observer essay reflects on recurring floods in the Hill Country and the deep ties between landscape and history.

🎉CSWGS celebrates Dr. Julie Fette, who’s spending the semester in France sharing her research on gender in French children’s literature! She speaks at the French National Library & ENS Lyon in Nov, and at the University of Padova in Dec. 🇫🇷 🔗 Learn more: profiles.rice.edu/faculty/julie-…

⭐️ Faculty Feature Welcome Dr. Rebecca Lea Potts to Rice! As HRC Postdoctoral Associate in Environmental Humanities and Lecturer in Environmental Studies, she explores how extraction, religion, sexuality, and race shape the American landscape.

New in Rice News! Brandi Smith spotlights how CSWGS students are redefining undergrad research through the Seminar & Practicum in Engaged Research! Read more: bit.ly/4rTr3xY

What We’re Reading Wednesday CSWGS is thrilled to celebrate Rita Dexter, PhD student in Sociology & CSWGS Certificate student on her new publication! Her paper, explores the delays in endometriosis diagnosis. Read here:  bit.ly/3NrFk5A

⚽ Save the Date: The World at Play! Join us Feb 6-7, 2026 for a major conference on soccer at Rice. Keynote Speakers: Briana Scurry & Laurent Dubois. 📍 Bioscience Research Collaborative ️ Free & Open to the Public

What We’re Reading Wednesday: "How to Communicate Climate: New Experiments and Methods." A dialogue between Harvard's Naomi Oreskes and Rice University scholars Cymene Howe (CSWGS Affiliate), Dominic Boyer, and Lacy Johnson. (CSWGS Affiliate) Read here: doi.org/10.16995./rege…

⭐️ What We’re Reading Wednesday Just Published: Rice University Professor Carly Thomsen’s new piece in The Conversation She tackles the current SCOTUS case on crisis pregnancy centers, truthful advertising, & donor privacy. 🔗 Read here: bit.ly/49B0zdH

⭐️ Faculty News: Dr. Azucena Castro (MCLLC/CSWGS) has a new co-edited volume, "Contesting the Climate Unthinkable" (UF Press)! Plus, catch her discussing Climate Justice at the Learning Planet Festival this month. 🌎