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  • In white text, "Announcing our new Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Transgender Studies at the Department of Gender and Women's Studies" over a dark abtract background
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    Congratulations to Shannyn, Manisha, Michelle, Glorian, and Hailey!
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    GWS Spring 2021 Course Guide
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  • A background of pink and purple clouds, with text reading, "GWS Faculty Social Justice Partial Bibliography," and "Read some of our faculty's work on policing, disposession, antiblack violence, migration control, and antiracist organizing."
    GWS Faculty for Social Justice Partial Bibliography
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    Read the GWS Fall 2020 newsletter!
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  • In white text, "Announcing our new Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Transgender Studies at the Department of Gender and Women's Studies" over a dark abtract background
    New Postdoctoral Fellowship in Trans Studies
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    Welcome To Our New Faculty and Fellow!
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  • 2021 Smalley Graduate Research Fellowship

    2021 Smalley Graduate Research Fellowship

    Congratulations to Jingyi Gu, Recipient of the 2021 Smalley Graduate Research Fellowship in GWS
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    Welcome Tasha Robles, GWS Academic Program Coordinator!

    We're excited to announce that Tasha Robles joins Gender and Women's Studies as our new Academic Program Coordinator on Friday, November 13, 2020!
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  • GWS Statement in Support of Muslim Students, Faculty, Staff and Community Members

    As scholars and teachers of intersectional feminist, queer, and transgender studies, GWS faculty are committed to confronting, understanding, and undoing the longstanding histories of racism, conscious and unconscious, that have structured institutions, culture, and everyday life for centuries in the United States.
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  • GWS 295
    GWS 295 (Meets with AAS 299 and LLS 296)

    Race, Gender, Music

    This course examines the relationship between music, social formation, and politics.
    Course Description for GWS 295 (Meets with AAS 299 and LLS 296)
  • GWS 399
    GWS 399

    GWS Internship

    Directed internship experience for GWS students.
    Course Description for GWS 399
  • GWS 395 Kemp
    GWS 395 (Meets with ENGL 325)

    Early Modern Trans Studies

    This course introduces students to an archive of early modern texts that engage gender nonconformism, proto- transgender identities, transformation, and imagined genders.
    Course Description for GWS 395 (Meets with ENGL 325)
  • GWS 350
    GWS 350

    Feminist & Gender Theory

    Interdisciplinary survey of feminist and gender theory. Traces developments in feminist theory and LGBT/Q approaches and explores contemporary debates.
    Course Description for GWS 350
  • GWS 282
    GWS 282 (Same as AAS 282 and LLS 282)

    Feminist and Queer Activisms

    From anti-lynching campaigns to Black Lives Matter, Wages for Housework to domestic worker organizing, ACT UP to queer migration politics, this course examines the history of feminist, queer, and anti-racist movements.
    Course Description for GWS 282 (Same as AAS 282 and LLS 282)
  • Zada
    GWS 202 (Same as SOC 202)

    Sexualities

    Surveys sexualities from multiple perspectives, standpoints, disciplines, and theories.
    Course Description for GWS 202 (Same as SOC 202)
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    GWS 204 (Same as ENGL 277 and MACS 204)

    Gender in Gaming

    Examines the history of gender and race in video games, focusing on an intersectional approach to consider how queer, feminist, and gamers of color disrupt and transform the expectations that video games and geek culture are predominantly the domain of cis masculinity and whiteness.
    Course Description for GWS 204 (Same as ENGL 277 and MACS 204)
  • GWS 378
    GWS 378 (Same as ENGL 378)

    Fairy Tales and Gender Formation

    Discusses how femininity and gender formation are related through fairy tales.
    Course Description for GWS 378 (Same as ENGL 378)

Fall 2020 Message to Our GWS Students

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Welcome to GWS!  Amidst the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, GWS remains steadfast in its commitment to your well-being and academic progress. 

GWS Faculty Position: Assistant Professor of Latinx Gender Studies

  • Read more about GWS Faculty Position: Assistant Professor of Latinx Gender Studies
The Department of Gender and Women's Studies invites applications and nominations for a full-time tenure-track faculty position in Latinx gender studies at the rank of Assistant Professor.

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