Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies

COME EARN YOUR MASTER’S WITH US!

The Center offers an interdisciplinary forum for the study of gender and sexualities and their intersections with race/ethnicity, class, and other sociocultural systems. Our vision is to use the tools of gender, sexualities, and women’s studies research to produce and support scholars, leaders, and social change agents who work collaboratively and build coalitions to advance knowledge, contribute to their communities, and promote equity and opportunity for all members of our global society. A Master’s degree from the Center will provide you with a high quality graduate education in an engaged community of scholars, tailored to prepare you for a variety of PhD programs and/or careers.

STUDY WITH FACULTY MEMBERS IN THE CENTER

• Anita Anantharam, PhD
• Kendal Broad, PhD
• Manoucheka Celeste, PhD
• Hilary Coulson, PhD
• Maddy Coy, PhD
• Jillian Hernandez, PhD
• Bonnie Moradi, PhD
• Hina Shaikh, PhD
• Trysh Travis, PhD
• Alyssa Zucker, PhD

PARTICIPATE IN A VIBRANT COMMUNITY OF SCHOLARS

Our core faculty members have expertise in Black and Latinx feminisms; critical girlhood studies; critical health studies; feminist/ethnic studies; feminist technoscience; gender, race, and sexualities; interdisciplinary history studies; Latinx, Afro-Latinx, Haitian, and Caribbean studies; LGBTQ+ studies; media, cultural, and literary studies; migration studies; and transnational and postcolonial feminist analysis. We apply this expertise in the study of critical domains such as data science, health and medicine, history of women, crime and violence, law and politics, leadership and business, literatures and cultures, media and art, migration, sexual violence and exploitation, social movement activism, and work. In addition, we have over 100 affiliate faculty members with wide-ranging expertise who offer courses and serve on graduate committees. We also have a strong group of PhD and MA graduate certificate and affiliate students engaged in our program.

PURSUE THE MA DEGREE THAT MEETS YOUR GOALS

We offer an MA with thesis and non-thesis options. We also offer combined MA/JD degrees and concurrent MA degrees. Students typically complete the MA in 4 semesters. The MA degree requires 30 credits, including three core courses (9-credits) that provide a strong foundation in women’s, gender, and sexualities studies, and additional elective credits that students can choose from a wide range of courses, such as:

Application deadline is FEBRUARY 1st for graduate admission and funding.

 
This story appears in the Spring 2022 issue of the Gender, Sexualities, & Women’s Studies Newsletter. Read more from the issue.