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.
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WGSS Latest News
Our Wonderful MA Graduates!!
CONGRATULATIONS!!
Amber & Sameen!
HUGE Congratulations to these WGSS Superstars!
Their impressive accomplishments are truly well deserved. We wish you all the best in the future!
Amber Brown
In addition to joining Pi Alpha Alpha, the global honor society for public affairs and administration, Amber received the first Noah Hookstra Memorial Award as a member of the Dole…
WGSS Receives 1M Mellon Grant!
The Mellon Foundation awarded WGSS with a 1M grant that will boost Transgender Studies at KU.
Two WGSS PhD Alums have now published books!
Congrats to Corinne Schwarz and Jo Kipgen! In Policing Victimhood: Human Trafficking, Frontline Work, and the Carceral State, Schwarz examines critical issues in crime and society. Kippen contributes to an understudied area in Reproductive Politics in India: The Case of Sex-Selective Abortion.