Gender and Sexuality Studies

Professors Herzig (Gender and Sexuality Studies and American Studies, chair), Kane (Sociology), and Rand (Art and Visual Culture and Gender and Sexuality Studies); Associate Professors Beasley (American Studies), Ellasante (Gender and Sexuality Studies and American Studies), and González Valencia (Art and Visual Culture); Assistant Professor Lim (Politics); Senior Lecturer Plastas (Gender and Sexuality Studies and American Studies).

The Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies analyzes local and global entanglements of knowledge, power, pleasure, and resistance. Drawing on histories of antiracist, decolonial, feminist, queer, and trans work, courses examine shifting dynamics of privilege, exclusion, and marginalization. The program also cultivates action, practice, and reciprocal engagement with the many communities of which we are part. To study gender and sexuality in these ways is to refute simple assertions about identity in favor of richly detailed accounts of the specific conditions through which particular social positions are maintained and transgressed. Students may choose to either major or minor in gender and sexuality studies.

More information is available on the Gender and Sexuality Studies program website.