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Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies
The Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota promotes scholarship that pushes established boundaries while providing a rich and rigorous undergraduate and graduate education that asks students to view the worlds around them with a curious, yet, critical lens.
The department offers an undergraduate major and minor in GWSS, an undergraduate minor in GLBT Studies, a PhD program in Feminist Studies, and a graduate minor in Feminist and Critical Sexuality Studies
GWSS Faculty from left to right: (Top Row): Eden Torres, Jacquelyn Zita, Susan Craddock, Richa Nagar (Bottom Row): Jigna Desai, Amy Kaminsky, Zenzele Isoke, Regina Kunzel
What's New in GWSS?
Welcome to our new incoming graduate students!
We want to extend a warm welcome to our incoming graduate students this fall. To read their bios, click here.
Helen Hawthorne Hartung Award Competition
Congratulations to Idalia P. Robles De León and to Jerod Greenisen on becoming the recipients of the Helen Hawthorne Hartung Award Competition for best feminist writing! We were impressed by the quality of the work we received from our GWSS undergraduate students. Our most sincere thanks to all the students who applied!
Alum Danielle Bouchard publishes a book!
Announcing a new book - A Community of Disagreement: Feminism in the University, by Professor Danielle Bouchard (UNC - Greensboro). Professor Bouchard is a graduate of the University of Minnesota's Feminist Studies Ph.D. program. Congratulations, Prof. Bouchard!
Congratulations!
Congratulations to Yeonbo Jeong for passing her final dissertation exam on February 8, 2012, entitled, "Science, Nation, and Women's Bodies: Economies of Reproductive Tissues and Stem Cell Research in South Korea." Congratulations, and thank you also to Yeonbo's co-advisors Susan Craddock and Jacquelyn Zita. We look forward to seeing your future work, Dr. Jeong!
Welcome New Affiliate Faculty
The GWSS Department would like to welcome Prof. Helena Pohlandt-McCormick as an affiliate faculty! Prof. Pohlandt-McCormick is an Associate Professor in the Department of History.
Welcome New Graduate Students
The Department welcomes the arrival of our 2011 graduate students Amanda Kessner, Jayne Swift, and Shan Ye.
Events
2011-2012 Feminist Studies Colloquium Series
The Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies is pleased to invite you to join us for our exciting 2011-2012 Feminist Studies Colloquium Series. We look forward to seeing you! View the complete Colloquium schedule (PDF)
