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Undergradaute Open House!
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HLL Alumni Lecture Series:
Dean Allbritton - "Bad Blood"
News and Announcements
Follow the WGSS Department:
PhD Student,
Val Moyer
, has received a Guiliano Global Fellowship from Stony Brook to support her travel
to the Olympic Studies Centre in Switzerland
where she will do ethnographic and archival work for a dissertation chapter on "Regulating
Hormones in International Women's Track and Field." Congrats, Val!
Congratulations to PhD student,
Shruti Mukherjee
, on her recent collaborative work, "Geographies of Occupation in South Asia."
South Asian feminists rethinking nation-states through the lens of occupation.
We have decided to no longer require GREs as part of the application for the PhD &
MA programs in WGSS.
There is much evidence that GREs are not good predictors of academic success. We join
a growing number of programs eliminating the GREs.
#GRExit
WGSS faculty member Cristina Khan publishes:
Constructring Eroticized Latinidad: Negotiating Profitability in the Stripping Industry
in Gender & Society.
Rachel Corbman's dissertation, "Conferencing on the Edge: A Queer History of Feminist
Field Formation, 1969-89," was selected as a finalist for the ASA's Ralph Henry Gabriel
Prize!
Congrats, Rachel!
WGSS welcomes its newest faculty member, Dr. Cristina Khan! Cristina received her PhD in Sociology with a graduate certificate in Feminist Studies
from the University of Connecticut in 2019. Her research and teaching interests include:
feminist methodologies, sexualities, race/ethnic studies, body/embodiment, Latina/o/x
studies, qualitative methods, sex work, and women of color feminisms.
Get to know Cristina by reading more here!
Professor Lisa Diedrich is awarded the 2019 Outstanding Provost's Mentor Award. Congratulations, Lisa!
WGSS celebrates its very first PhD gradute, Rachel Corbman! Rachel successfully defended her thesis, "Conferencing on the Edge: A Queer History
of Feminist Field Formation, 1969-1989" and accepted a position as
Visiting Assistant Professor at Wake Forest University
- congrats, Rachel!
Check out this informative op-ed by
WGSS PhD student, Val Moyer: "
Threatening the Gender Hierarchy in Women's Sport
"
published in Nursing Clio. Nursing Clio is an open access, peer-reviewed, collaborative blog project that ties
historical scholarship to present-day issues related to gender and medicine.
Congrats to Disability Studies Certificate holder and WGSS Doctoral Student, Andy
Eicher,
for earning a prestigious AHLSS Graduate Fellowship for 2019-2020.
Congratulations to Stephanie Bonvissuto on her recently published co-authored article,
"Personal and Collective Trans-Mythologies: Creative Attitudes to Gender Incongruance
Among Transgender Individuals
"
appearing in Creativity Studies Journal.
Academics
UNDERGRADUATE
The department offers a Bachelor of Arts, Minor, and Combined Undergraduate Degree
with a Master in Public Health (MPH).
GRADUATE
The department offers a PhD and MA in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, as well
as a Graduate Certificate.
*GREs No Longer Required!*
PhD Program
MA Program
Graduate Certificate