The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality coordinates courses and activities that take up gender and sexuality as primary objects of study and categories of analysis. Our courses fall under traditional disciplinary rubrics, and use gender and sexuality as categories of analysis to track contemporary transformations in these and other domains of knowledge.
We are interested in developing points of comparison within and among diverse areas of organized knowledge, not assuming that gender means the same thing in different disciplines, historical moments, epistemologies, or cultural frameworks. We are also dedicated to fostering debate about the construction and implications of categories of gender difference and sexual identity.
Further, we promote engagement with ways that gender and sexuality give us insight into other modes of social organization and change, including transformations of economic and political systems; media public spheres; forms of repression and resistance; modes of production, knowledge and experience; and everyday life.
The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality confers no graduate degrees at this time. We also foster graduate participation in the Center in several other ways. In addition to offering graduate courses, the Center sponsors lectures and symposia of interest to graduate students. It also encourages and supports graduate student initiatives for conferences and speakers, as well as student participation in the governance of the Center. Each of these provides students with an opportunity to present their work and receive feedback from faculty the workshop or fellow students the working group.
Each year, the Center offers one or two dissertation completion fellowships, one joint dissertation fellowship with the Center for Race, Politics and Culture, as well as a number of residential fellowships. In addition, we hold an annual call for graduate student teaching opportunities , including co-teaching our theories courses or interning in our Gender and Sexuality in World Civilizations sequence.
