Women's Studies at St. Olaf College

    Women Gathering

In the coffeehouse of the old St. Olaf Center

Welcome or Welcome Back to Women's Studies!

Fall news (briefly):

  • Judy Kutulas returns as program director (office information below)
  • New faculty member Rebecca Richards joins our program
  • Information about fall programs to follow soon

 

Congratulations to our 2011
Distinction and Rossing Prize Winners


Awarded Distinction in Women's Studies


 Annika Tohlen
“Creating Homes in Viking Court: Relationships and Gender Roles in a GI-Bill Campus Community, 1945-1950”
In her essay, Annika draws on St. Olaf archives and her own interviews with local St. Olaf alumni to describe the experiences of married couples who lived in St. Olaf's temporary housing after WWII to take advantage of the GI Bill. Annika postulates that the women who kept households running in their tiny trailers while their husbands (and occasionally the women themselves) attended college learned valuable lifelong lessons about marriage and community.


Awarded the Rossing Prize in Women's Studies

Karen Hopper
"Women in Electoral Politics"
In her essay, Karen postulates that successful female candidates would emphasize hard political issues in their campaigns, and then shows through her research on campaign ads that this does not actually prove true.


Elizabeth Terpstra 
“The Journey from Ed to Ellen: Fitting into a Binary Gender System”
This essay skillfully weaves together the biography of Ellen Krug, a post-op male to female and selected themes from gender theory.  The sensitive and sympathetic treatment of Ellen’s story and the treatment of theory created a fine piece of writing.


Catey Jordan
“Freedom of Expression: Gender Diversity at St. Olaf College”
This project explores the context of gender identity at St. Olaf, informed by contemporary gender theory. Catey explains gender and transgender identity with attention to key issues of naturalization and essentialism, and usefully questions the sex/gender distinction.


Annika Tohlen - Annika's Distinction project earned a Rossing Prize as well.

For a look at other past receipients follow this link
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/womens-studies/distinction/past_recipients.html

 

Women's Studies

Students explore the new scholarship about gender and gain an understanding of a variety of women's experiences across cultures and throughout history. Majors and concentrators take a range of courses in the humanities, social sciences and sciences, as well as in the Women's Studies program (see Course Core Requirements for details).

 

Judy Kutulas
Professor of History and Director of Women's Studies
Holland Hall 513C
786-3236
kutulas@stolaf.edu

Fall Semester Office Hours:

Mondays, 2-3, Thursdays, 12:30-2:30,
and by appointment

 

MJUR Call for Papers

We at the Midwest Journal of Undergraduate Research invite all undergraduate students at ACM institutions to submit manuscripts in any discipline for consideration for publication in the inaugural issue of our journal.

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