Department of Women’s and Gender Studies

Faculty

Anupama Arora, Associate Professor of English & Women’s and Gender Studies
Elisabeth Arruda, Part-Time Lecturer in Women’s and Gender Studies
Heidi Berggren, Associate Professor of Political Science & Women’s and Gender Studies; Chair, Women’s and Gender Studies
Catherine Villanueva Gardner, Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies & Philosophy
Anna Kłobucka, Professor of Portuguese & Women’s and Gender Studies
Cristina Mehrtens, Associate Professor of History & Women’s and Gender Studies
Stephanie O’Hara, Associate Professor of French & Women’s and Gender Studies
Nishant Upadhyay, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies

Faculty Affiliates

R. Thomas Boone Psychology

Dário Borim Portuguese

Magali Carrera Art History

Anna Dempsey Art History

Shari Evans English

Janet Fairbairn Design

Siegal Gottlieb Mathematics

Maureen Hall, Education

Shannon Jenkins Political Science

Pamela Karimi Art History

Andrea C Klimt Sociology/ Anthropology

Lisa Maya Knauer Sociology/ Anthropology

Susan Krumholz Crime and Justice Studies

Christopher Larkosh Portuguese

Yoon Soo Lee Design

Teal Pedlow Psychology

Robin Robinson Sociology/ Anthropology

Isabel P. B. Fêo Rodrigues Sociology/ Anthropology

Maria da Glória de Sá Sociology/ Anthropology

Viviane Saleh-Hanna, Crime and Justice Studies

Matthew Sneider History

Bridget Teboh History

Heather Turcotte, Crime and Justice Studies

Timothy Walker History

Tryon Woods Crime and Justice Studies

The field of Women’s and Gender Studies is interdisciplinary. Calling upon such fields as history, economics, psychology, health, music, literature, and visual arts, Women’s and Gender Studies encourages students to understand the position of women in society. The interdisciplinary nature of Women’s and Gender Studies fosters an active examination of varying influences upon women’s and men’s lives, such as race, class, ethnicity, gender, sex, sexuality and age. The Women’s and Gender Studies Department provides students an opportunity to think about the construction and influences of gender in contemporary society, to discover the historical factors that have shaped the current status of women from varying backgrounds and countries, and to explore paths to achieve equality for all people.

Core Major Learning Outcomes

Explain the historical, social, and political contexts of women’s movements and feminist thought
Explain feminist theories and apply them in critiquing and transforming one’s world

Focus Area Learning Outcomes

Intersectional Gender Studies: Identify and evaluate the social construction of gender and the ways gender intersects with other forms of identity such as sexuality, race, class, ability and age in creating and maintaining structures of inequality.

Politics, Justice and Policy: Explain the gendering of our socioeconomic and political worlds and the individual and collective components of social change.

Cross-Cultural and Transnational Inquiry: Identify, compare, and evaluate culturally and historically specific ideas of gender, sex, and sexuality; and identify and examine ideas of gender, sex and sexuality that cross cultural and national borders.

Politics of Cultural Representation: Apply a feminist perspective to the study of literature, history, and/or the arts, with the aim of examing critically the multiple, situated kinds of knowledge that emergae from cultural artifacts and narratives.