Women’s & Gender Studies

The graduate program in Women’s and Gender Studies at Stony Brook creates a space within the academy for critical thinking across disciplines about the explanatory categories of gender, race, class, sexuality, nation, and disability. Women’s and Gender Studies explores how these categories come into being and operate across different cultures and historical periods, and how they shape social, political, economic and institutional organizations as well as personal experience and perception. The program is particularly strong in four key areas: transnational social movements and globalization; the politics of representation and media analysis; gender and health; and the critical analysis of sexuality.

Along with the core faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies, the graduate programs draw from an extensive network of Graduate Faculty from across Stony Brook University, including in the social and behavioral sciences, humanities, and health sciences. 

CAT Ph.D. Track in Women’s & Gender Studies

 The new PhD program in Women's and Gender Studies will be accepting applicants for the 2014-2015 academic year.

 CAT M.A. Track in Women’s & Gender Studies

 The new MA program in Women's and Gender Studies will be accepting applicants for the 2014-2015 academic year.

 "For general information on Stony Brook University's graduate programs, go to the Graduate Bulletin" Graduate Bulletin 

For more information please contact Associate Professor Lisa Diedrich, the WaGS Graduate Program Director, at lisa.diedrich@stonybrook.edu, or 631-632-1765