Students present policy recommendations to Erie County officials to empower working women as part of Women Studies' Internship pilot program.

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Students and faculty work together to reach beyond disciplinary boundaries and combine theory with activism.

Gain a Global Perspective

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Want to change the world? Move beyond the classroom and affect positive transformation in real time. (Photo: Wael Bazzi)

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At both the graduate and undergraduate levels, students come together for the purpose of building committed communities.

See Differently

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Our students learn to look at the world from multiple angles.

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Welcome to Global Gender and Sexuality Studies

Our department is one of the first women’s studies programs in the nation. We inspire critical thinking, challenging students to better understand how gender and sexuality shape the world and our places in it.

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“Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged.” – Audre Lorde

About the Department

What is Global Gender and Sexuality Studies?

We focus on developing knowledge of women, gender and sexuality through in-depth social, cultural and historical analysis.

Student Voices

"It is an out-of-the-box program that gets you thinking about life."

Faculty Voices

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"My work is based in a profound belief in art and visual culture’s capacity not only to reflect the past and the present but also to imagine and shape a better future."
10/6/18
Elizabeth Otto, PhD
Associate Professor of Art History
11/18/24 Meet Our Faculty
"I look at how diverse forms of gender representations in advertisements, art, film, photography, music videos and protests are mobilized politically."
6/13/18
Jasmina Tumbas, PhD
Assistant Professor
11/18/24 Meet Our Faculty
"My research is about better lives for women working in economies affected by corporations and governments of the global North."
6/13/18
Marion Werner, PhD
Associate Professor
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"My work addresses the history of literature, particularly as it relates to the body, the emotions, and ethics."
6/11/18
Rachel Ablow, PhD
Professor
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"We need to create narratives about identity, interconnection, place and planet that are historically accurate, socially just and artistically visionary."
6/13/18
Kari Winter, PhD
Professor
11/18/24 Meet Our Faculty
"In my research, I deal with questions of justice, ethics and identity in the plays of Mexican writer Bárbara Colio."
6/13/18
Margarita Vargas, PhD
Associate Professor
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"I am passionate about challenging women’s political exclusions in democratic societies. My research on Latin America examines how women’s activism in promoting institutional innovations promotes gender equality in states and political parties."
6/11/18
Gwynn Thomas, PhD
Chair
11/18/24 Meet Our Faculty
"Being passionate about global democracy and social equality, my transnational research focuses on post-communist transitions, democratization and globalized development."
6/13/18
Barbara Wejnert, PhD
Professor
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"My focus is on sexuality and the body in Jewish mysticism and magic, and in contemporary New Age Religion."
9/13/19
Marla Segol, PhD
Associate Professor
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"My goal as a researcher focused on issues of sexualized violence has always been to work myself out of that job. There should not be experts in this field or a field at all because there should be no sexualized violence (and all violence is sexualized). I always keep that in mind as a goal."
6/13/18
Carine Mardorossian, PhD
Professor
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"My teaching and research in early modern literature explores the dynamics that animate art, including, centrally, sexuality and gender."
6/11/18
Barbara Bono, PhD
Associate Professor
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"I research and write about gender and race in twentieth century American cities."
6/11/18
Victoria Wolcott, PhD
Professor
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"I am passionate about feminist theories and practices of justice and democracy. In this context I investigate the role of arts and aesthetics in democratic politics."
6/11/18
Ewa P. Ziarek, PhD
Professor
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"I use queer theory and early modern English literature to ponder questions of reading and interpretation. My work unpacks the histories, affects, desires, and ontological assumptions at play in how readers make meaning from a text."
6/18/20
Christine Varnado, PhD
Assistant Professor
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"How did Atlantic slavery and European imperialism define West African gender and sexual identities, and transform power relations between men and women?"
6/13/18
Ndubueze Mbah, PhD
Assistant Professor
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"How do gender and sexuality shape the practice and politics of U.S. sport, psychiatry, LGBT life and disability?"
6/11/18
Susan Cahn, PhD
Professor
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Minor and Joint Major Degrees

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A Minor or Joint Major in Global Gender Studies complements majors in psychology, English, history, art public health, management, sociology and many more.

Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies

Welcome to Global Gender and Sexuality Studies

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About the Department

Student Voices

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Minor and Joint Major Degrees