
Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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ABOUT OUR PROGRAMS
Undergraduate Programs
The Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies offers a major and minor in both WGSS and Human Sexuality Studies; an online bachelor's degree in WGSS; as well as a certificate in Gender, Law & Policy.
Graduate Programs
Our Graduate program supports interdisciplinary research on topics pertaining to women, gender, and sexuality and administers programs leading to the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees, and graduate certificate.
Upcoming Events
WGSS News
Cheers to Agnes Phoebe Muyanga on her First Published Academic Journal Article!
The Journal of Philosophical Investigation recently published "The Socio-Political Performances of Care: Women Activists in Tanzania Push for Increase of Tanzanian Girls' Age of Consent from Fifteen Years to Eighteen Years". The article speaks to performative care for victims of gender-based violence in Tanzania through established socio-cultural gendered policies that...
Congratulations to Akiko Takeyama
The Association for Asian Studies recently announced Akiko Takeyama was awarded Honorable Mention from the John Whitney Hall Prize for her book: Involuntary Consent: The Illusion of Choice in Japan’s Adult Video Industry (Stanford University Press). An awards ceremony will be held in March 2025 in Columbus, Ohio. For more...
Jeanne Vaccaro (Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and Museum Studies, University of Kansas), and Jennifer Doyle (Professor of English, University of California, Riverside) present "Scientia Sexualis"
Scientia Sexualis, is an exhibition by an ambitious group survey of contemporary artists whose works take up the fraught relationship between sex and science.
Congrats to Jeanne Vaccaro (Museum Studies/WGSS) who was awarded an M-AAA Fellowship!
Vaccaro is one of sixteen artists awarded the Mid-America Arts Alliance Fellowship to Ignite Social Change.