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Department: Women's and Gender Studies

Director: Professor Dána-Ain Davis

The Graduate Center

365 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10016

Email: wgs@gc.cuny.edu

https://www.gc.cuny.edu/womens-and-gender-studies

FACULTY

Beth Baron, Roslyn Bologh, Barbara Bowen, Matthew Brim, Justin Brown, Lynn Chancer, Cynthia Chris, Patricia Clough, Alyson Cole, Blanche Cook, Paisley Currah, Dana-Ain Davis, Sherry Deckman, Nathalie Etoke, Michelle Fine, Janet Gornick, Amy Herzog, Dagmar Herzog, Carrie Hintz, Peter Hitchcock, Cindi Katz, Barbara Katz Rothman, Serene Khader, Kyoo Lee, Gail Levin, Setha Low, Susan Markens, Kathleen McCarthy, Nancy K. Miller, Jayne Mooney, Ruth O'Brien, Rupal Oza, Eugenia Paulicelli, Tracey Revenson, Joe Rollins, Talia Schaffer, Sibyl Schwarzenbach, Domna Stanton, Ida Susser, Deborah Tolman, Saadia Toor, Red Washburn, Julia Wrigley

THE PROGRAM

The Master of Arts In Women’s and Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary program open to applicants with any relevant academic or professional background.

Gender and sexuality issues are front and center in today’s political, cultural and economic life. Women’s and Gender Studies, which originally grew out of the international feminist movement of the 1960s and 1970s, is now a well-established international field of study, focusing on, among other things, the roles of women and men in today’s society; the growing debates over gender, class, race, sexuality and disability in the construction of identity at both individual and community levels; and the search for equity and social justice in an increasingly unequal society, both in the United States and around the world.

The M.A. in Women’s and Gender Studies aims to combine theory and practice, looking at gender and sexuality from an academic perspective, while at the same time giving students a grounding in real-world issues and problems. The program collaborates with a wide range of disciplines at the Graduate Center, including Anthropology, Art History, Comparative Literature, Earth and Environmental Sciences, English, French, Geography, History, Italian, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Social Welfare, Sociology, Spanish, Urban Education, and many others.

Students completing the degree will be prepared to enter a wide range of governmental or private organizations that require gender expertise, and/or to undertake further study at the Ph.D. level.