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The call for proposals for the 2026 LGBTQ+ Student Showcase is now open. The final deadline for presenters to submit their abstracts electronically is at 5 p.m. on November 5.

On Monday April 28th, 2025, the Women and Gender Studies department met for our 15th annual Scholar’s Lecture. This event honors one of our faculty members and gives them a chance to discuss their current research. Dr. Yevette Richards Jordan was our lecturing scholar for this year.  

Women and Gender Studies is about making sense of the real world and making real change. It is important for the field to bring your experiences, your questions, and your passions to your studies. Come ready to talk about your experience and passions, be prepared to challenge your own beliefs, and bring empathy and compassion to each space you enter.

Each year, the Women & Gender Studies and the African & African American Studies programs confer special honor with the Sojourner Truth faculty award. We are excited to announce that Dr. Carol Cleaveland, Dr. Deborah Kwak, and Dr. Stefan Wheelock are the 2025 Sojourner Truth Faculty Award recipients! We appreciate their remarkable work.

On March 4th 2025, our program director, Dr. Anu Aneja, gave the keynote address at the Center for Leadership and Intercultural Engagement's Women's History Month event. Dr. Aneja's talk was titled "Becoming woman: transnational lessons from the past for the future."

Check out the classes we are offering for Spring 2025 !

The Women and Gender Studies Department teamed up with Fall for the Book to introduce Etaf Rum and her book Evil Eye.

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences is proud to honor Nikita Fernandes, BA Psychology '19; Women and Gender Studies Minor, with the 2024 Distinguished Alumni award in women and gender studies. Fernandes is an immigrant South Asian cisgender queer woman who was born and raised in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. She is a sex therapist and psychotherapist located in New York City.