Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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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.

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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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Spring 2024 Newsletter (PDF)

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WGSS News

Assistant Professor Jeanne Vaccaro selected as one of the 2025 Rocket Grant recipients!

Lawrence creatives among recipients of 2025 Rocket Grants for community-driven art projects | KU NewsCharlotte Street and the Spencer Museum of Art announced recipients of Rocket Grants, a re-granting program of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. ...

CONGRATS to Dr. Katie Batza on her newly published book!

Katie Batza (Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies), (2025). Just published the book, AIDS in the Heartland: How Unlikely Coalitions Created a Blueprint for LGBTQ Politics, with University of North Carolina Press. Media link ...

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...

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