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Women’s History Month: Cartoonist Alison Bechdel on Finding Truth
Diversity, Equity and InclusionAlison Bechdel is not afraid to share her truth with others. For decades, the critically acclaimed cartoonist has used her comics and memoirs to tell the truth about herself, her family, and the world. Her graphic memoir, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic – which was turned into a Tony-award winning Broadway musical – explores the…
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A Champion for Race and Equity
Diversity, Equity and InclusionDr. Paola Ehrmantraut, the Endowed Chair in the Humanities and director of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, has had a busy year. It’s no wonder her faculty peers at St. Thomas selected her as the 2022-23 St. Thomas Professor of the Year – an honor that recognizes excellence in teaching, scholarship and service. As faculty… -
Elections 2022: Growing the Next Generation of Women in Office
Arts & HumanitiesFrom mailboxes stuffed with campaign flyers to pollsters dialing up potential voters, it’s hard not to notice that midterm elections are drawing near. For many voters, they’ll be excited to see an end to all the campaigning and deluge of television advertisements, but for political researchers at the University of St. Thomas, this is their… -
Highlighting Female Veterans at St. Thomas
University NewsSt Thomas, in cooperation with the College of Arts and Sciences history and women's studies programs, the Luann Dummer Center for Women, and Veterans Services, has focused on female military veterans for the academic year 2018-2019. -
Community Celebrates Women’s Center, International Women’s Day
University NewsThe Luann Dummer Center for Women celebrated its 25th anniversary on International Women's Day. -
Class of '17 in the Spotlight
University NewsIn the ranks of seniors graduating this weekend, we have students who earned the Chief’s Award from the City of St. Paul for helping a woman in distress in 2014, a student who served as an ambassador on a Minnesota trade mission to Mexico, and students who have done research on everything from political cynicism to drying breadfruit. Read a roundup of the stories the Newsroom has written about Class of 2017 students since they arrived on campus. -
Humans of St. Thomas: Emma Kopp
Humans of St. ThomasJunior American culture and difference/women's studies double major Emma Kopp is as enchanting as she is unconventional. -
'Orange is the New Black' Author Piper Kerman to Speak Here March 25
University NewsHer talk, sponsored by many campus departments, is free and open to the public. -
‘Almost Like Home Base’: Women’s Studies at the University of St. Thomas
Angela High-Pippert, associate professor of political science, reflects on how the Women’s Studies program has influenced the academic development of students, the professional development of faculty and the leadership development of women at the University of St. Thomas. -
Luann Dummer: Feminist, Friend, Gourmet Cook
University NewsThis Friday St. Thomas celebrates 20 years of the Luann Dummer Center for Women. Here is the story of the incredible woman who started it all one month before her premature death from lung cancer in 1992.