In Defense of Academic Freedom and the Future of Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies

The National Women's Studies Association is excited to partner with the AAUP’s Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom to host a collaborative webinar in support of our members and WGSS community. This webinar focuses on thinking about academic freedom in a more capacious way in order to address academia's responses to these anti-DEI/Trump administration policies, how the university reproduces and sustains -isms, and conditions of possibility in our resistive work.

We'll be in conversation with: 

•  Dr. Isaac Kamola, the executive director of the AAUP's Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom and Associate Professor of Political Science at Trinity College
• Dr. Karma R. Chávez, Bobby and Sherri Patton Professor of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies and Chair of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin
• Dr. Rana Jaleel, Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis and Chair of the AAUP Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure
• Dr. Liz Montegary (moderator),  fellow at the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom and professor of Women's, Gender, & Sexuality studies at Stony Brook University

We welcome questions and engagement from our attendees - thank you for building resources and interventions with us!