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Follow the WGSS Department:
Our very own WGSS professor,
Mary Jo Bona, is the 2020 recipient of the
Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service -
a great, big congratulations to MJ
!
Congrats to WGSS
PhD student
Hafza Girdap
on her recent publication:
"Human Rights, Conflicts, and Dislocation: The Case of Turkey in a Global Spectrum"
in the American Journal of Qualitative Research.
Dr. Joy Schaefer completed the WGSS Graduate Certificate while finishing her PhD in Comparative Literary
and Cultural Studies.
She just accepted a position as S
enior Lecturer of Critical Media Studies at
Lawrence Technological University
.
Congrats, Joy!!
Check out the
WGSS Spring 2020 Newsletter!
Includes Commencement Highlights with invited graduation speaker, Rose Berktas,
Undergraduate Alumni in the Spotlight (Maureen Ahmed '11 and Sophia Pierre-Antoine
'13), Interview with New Facutly, Cristina Khan, and more!
Check out Doctoral Candidate in Sociology and WGSS Certificate Student, Helena Darwin's new publication in
Gender & Society -
Challenging the Cisgender/ Transgender Binary: Nonbinary People and the Transgender
Label
- Congrats, Helena!
WGSS PhD Student,
Shruti Mukherjee
authors an article for Social Epistemology: A Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Policy
-
Gendered Embodiment of the Ethnographer during Fieldwork in a Conflict Region of India
- Congrats, Shruti!
Congratulations to all of our Dec '19 WGSS graduates! Check out this
great piece
on one of our outstanding graduating majors, Olivia Garrison!
“Each day, my WGSS courses left me feeling empowered, and more importantly, like
I was learning something worthwhile."
Congrats, Olivia - we are so proud of you!
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.
Academics
UNDERGRADUATE
The department offers a Bachelor of Arts, Minor, and Combined Undergraduate Degree
with a Master in Public Health (MPH).
Undergraduate Degree (BA)
Combined Undergraduate Degree (BA/MPH)
Learn more about the Undergraduate Program
in the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality
Studies at SBU
**NEW**
- Starting April 3rd
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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