Women's, Gender, & Sexualities Studies

As the first Doherty Odyssey Scholar to graduate from Elon, Jubitza Figueroa ’21 is ready to make her mark on the world. Ed and Joan Doherty P’07 endowed eight Odyssey Program scholarships as part of the Elon LEADS Campaign to make an Elon education possible for top students with high financial need.

“Bringing the Dead Home: Hindu Invitation Rituals in Tamil South India” is the cover article in the most recent issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion

The three webinars held during April covered a variety of topics.

In this series, Elon College, the College of Arts and Sciences is shining the spotlight on distinguished members of the Class of 2021 from a wide array of disciplines.

Elon University students and a staff member were recognized for their leadership with awards sponsored by Omicron Delta Kappa, a national leadership honor society.

Jason Collins, the first openly gay player in major league sports, is the keynote speaker for the 2nd Annual Men's Leadership for Gender Equity Conference - an event focused on engaging, empowering, and educating men about gender equity.

The symposium took place across four webinars this fall and was organized by faculty members from the Department of World Languages and Cultures.

The journal’s double issue, which includes twelve peer-reviewed articles, focuses on the ethnography of India across the longue durée and includes several generations of scholars.

Allocco’s article draws on more than a decade of ethnographic research and interviews with one Hindu family in South India to explore the hermeneutical issues – what Allocco calls “interpretive ambivalence” – that arise from narrative multiplicity.

Allocco will serve for a five-year term alongside Milda Ališauskienė (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania) and lead a women's mentoring initiative among members of the Women Scholars Network.