PhD in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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The PhD program in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality  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 the following areas: Black & Women of Color Feminisms, Critical Disability Studies, Feminist Media Studies, Political Thought, Social Justice, & Policy, Race & Ethnic Studies, Queer & Trans Studies, and Transnational Feminisms. Students benefit from mentorship by WGSS core faculty and an interdisciplinary network of affiliated faculty across the social sciences, humanities, and health sciences. 

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Quicklinks:

Graduate student handbook 2024-2025

Requirements for the ph.d. degree 

Suggested timeline 

Guidelines and archive of reading lists 

Profiles of current students