Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies

It has been my pleasure to temporarily step out of my role as Associate Chair of the Department into Acting Chair while Dr. Bonnie Moradi takes a well-deserved sabbatical this semester. Although I’ve long observed Bonnie hard at work, this ...

Internship This past summer, I was one of eight fellows in the Frank Karel Public Interest Communications Fellowship in Washington, D.C., where I interned for Mary’s Center in the Marketing and Communications department. Mary’s Center was started by a Colombian immigrant, ...

The Department is thrilled to welcome Dr. Joanna Neville as a full time faculty member. After serving as an adjunct in our department for several years, Dr. Neville now holds the position of Assistant Instructional Professor and has also taken ...

Thanks to everyone whose generosity helps us to continue to thrive, including the following donors:   Gifts are used to fund conferences, educational travel for graduate students, scholarships, speaker honoraria, and exhibit support. Read more "With an Attitude of Gratitude"

What is a voice? How do we utilize that voice to better the society we live in? These are questions I have struggled with since an early age and am still defining to this day. My Bachelor’s in Women’s Studies ...

We invite students and faculty to submit proposals for the following awards and grants: AAUW Gainesville Student Grant: The AAUW Gainesville Branch Student Grant provides up to $1000 to support women’s studies students to conduct research, education, or initiatives that align ...

Graduate certificate students Sumaiya Nusrath (right) and Emily McIltrot present their work, co-authored with Department Chair Bonnie Moradi, at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association in Seattle, WA. This project was supported by an Association for American University ...

My Women’s Studies degree remains one of the best decisions I’ve ever made! I joined the Women’s Studies MA program in Fall 2011 after teaching in a rural classroom for 2 years following undergrad. My thesis examined the literature about feminist ...

Recently Published Books   Michael Bernhard, Amie Kreppel and Carlos de la Torre, eds. Still the Age of Populism? Re-examining Theories and Concepts, Routledge, 2024 Rachel Carrico, Dancing the Politics of Pleasure at the New Orleans Second Line, University of Illinois Press, 2024 Pamela ...

We are delighted to welcome six new students to our MA program this year.   Bella Adams holds a B.A. in English and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies from the University of Florida. She is broadly interested in theories of feminism, postcoloniality, ...

We are delighted to welcome back our second-year MA candidates as they continue their endeavors and their theses and projects   Sonbol Bahramikamangar is passionate about domestic violence advocacy and prevention. She completed the Florida Domestic Violence Core Competency Training and now ...

Students pursuing graduate work in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies will become acquainted with various feminist (and other appropriate) theoretical approaches and methodologies for examining the role of gender in cultural systems. Gender will be understood in ...