Faculty News /wgst/ en Announcing the Janet Jacobs Honors Colloquium! /wgst/2023/11/16/announcing-janet-jacobs-honors-colloquium <span>Announcing the Janet Jacobs Honors Colloquium!</span> <span><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span><time datetime="2023-11-16T12:41:45-07:00" title="Thursday, November 16, 2023 - 12:41">Thu, 11/16/2023 - 12:41</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/wgst/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/article-thumbnail/jjacobs2019.jpeg?h=db1039ea&amp;itok=P5WhNG1L" width="1200" height="800" alt="Headshot of Janet Jacobs"> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-categories" itemprop="about"> <span class="visually-hidden">Categories:</span> <div class="ucb-article-category-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-folder-open"></i> </div> <a href="/wgst/taxonomy/term/116"> news </a> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/wgst/taxonomy/term/225" hreflang="en">Faculty News</a> <a href="/wgst/taxonomy/term/233" hreflang="en">WGST news</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default 3"> <div class="ucb-article-text" itemprop="articleBody"> <div><p> </p><div class="align-right image_style-medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <div class="imageMediaStyle medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <img loading="lazy" src="/wgst/sites/default/files/styles/medium_750px_50_display_size_/public/article-image/janet_jacobs53headshot.jpg?itok=fJd5SkzH" width="750" height="1050" alt="Headshot of Professor Janet Jacobs"> </div> </div> The <strong>Janet Jacobs Honors Colloquium</strong>&nbsp;is&nbsp;an annual event, hosted by the department of Women and Gender Studies&nbsp;(WGST)&nbsp;and the&nbsp;Arts and Sciences Honors Program, to celebrate students whose honors theses, in any discipline, thematically address the fields of WGST and LGBTQ studies. Each spring 3-7 students from across the University will be selected to present their work in a colloquium setting for an audience of mentors, friends, family, and interested students, faculty, and staff. Each year, WGST and the&nbsp;Arts and Science Honors Program will select a guest speaker to deliver a keynote address.<p>The <strong>Janet Jacobs Honors Colloquium</strong>&nbsp;is named after Professor Janet Jacobs in honor of her&nbsp;more than&nbsp;thirty-five&nbsp;years as an esteemed member of the WGST department and&nbsp;her&nbsp;8&nbsp;years as Program Director&nbsp;for the&nbsp;Arts and Science Honors Program.&nbsp;Professor Janet Jacobs is&nbsp;Professor of Distinction in Women and Gender Studies. Her research focuses on ethnic and religious violence, gender, mass trauma, and collective memory. She is author of numerous books and journal articles, including&nbsp;Divine Disenchantment:&nbsp;<em>Deconverting&nbsp;from New Religions</em>&nbsp;(1989),&nbsp;<em>Victimized Daughters: Incest and the Development of the Female Self</em>&nbsp;(1994),&nbsp;<em>Hidden Heritage: The Legacy of the Crypto-Jews</em>&nbsp;(2002),&nbsp;<em>Memorializing the Holocaust: Gender, Genocide and Collective Memory</em>&nbsp;(2010), and&nbsp;<em>The Holocaust Across Generations: Trauma and Its Inheritance Among Descendants of Survivors&nbsp;</em>(2016).&nbsp;Her current work is on genocide, collective memory, and counter memorialization. She is the recipient of numerous book awards and&nbsp;in&nbsp;2005 she received the Hazel Barnes Prize,&nbsp;the most prestigious single faculty award granted by the ºÚÁÏÉçÇøÍø.</p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--ucb-related-articles-block paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div>Off</div> </div> </h2> <div>Traditional</div> <div>0</div> <div>On</div> <div>White</div> Thu, 16 Nov 2023 19:41:45 +0000 Anonymous 1663 at /wgst New Faculty Profile: Samira Mehta /wgst/2019/11/01/new-faculty-profile-samira-mehta <span>New Faculty Profile: Samira Mehta</span> <span><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span><time datetime="2019-11-01T16:25:18-06:00" title="Friday, November 1, 2019 - 16:25">Fri, 11/01/2019 - 16:25</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/wgst/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/article-thumbnail/samira_mehta_0.jpg?h=71d88982&amp;itok=eAdoc6-n" width="1200" height="800" alt="Samira Mehta"> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-categories" itemprop="about"> <span class="visually-hidden">Categories:</span> <div class="ucb-article-category-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-folder-open"></i> </div> <a href="/wgst/taxonomy/term/221"> Bolder Voices Fall 2019 </a> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/wgst/taxonomy/term/225" hreflang="en">Faculty News</a> <a href="/wgst/taxonomy/term/233" hreflang="en">WGST news</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default 3"> <div class="ucb-article-text" itemprop="articleBody"> <div><p> </p><div class="align-right image_style-medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <div class="imageMediaStyle medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <img loading="lazy" src="/wgst/sites/default/files/styles/medium_750px_50_display_size_/public/article-image/mehta-200.jpg?itok=UcHJF773" width="750" height="1125" alt="Mehta"> </div> </div> The newest addition to our faculty, Samira K. Mehta has joined us this semester as assistant professor in Jewish Studies and Women and Gender Studies. Mehta received her PhD from Emory University in American Religious Cultures, and an MDiv from Harvard Divinity School specializing in Christianity and Culture. Previously, Mehta held a fac