Undergraduate Programs

The program offers a number of interdisciplinary courses, including introductory courses and special topics courses open to all undergraduates; in addition, it brings together a wide range of courses taught in different departments and programs, each contributing a unique approach to specific topics and materials within the broad and diverse study of women, gender, and sexuality.

BA in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

The BA in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies gives students the opportunity to pursue their own intellectual interests within the multi-faceted study of women, gender, and/or sexuality.

Minor in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

The WGSS interdisciplinary minor complements and may also integrate with a student's major.

Admissions

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Director of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Sarah Luna

Kathryn A. McCarthy, J45, AG46 Assistant Professor in Women's Studies and Director of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Sex work, migration, gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, borders, Mexico, United States My research focuses upon how the US/Mexico border is both productive of and made legible by socially meaningful forms of difference through categories such as gender, race, and sexuality. My first book, Love in the Drug War: Selling Sex and Finding Jesus on the Mexico-US Border, is based on twelve months of ethnographic research conducted from 2008 to 2009 in the Mexican border city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas during the height of the drug war. My analysis of two groups of migrants – Mexican sex workers and the white American missionaries who seek to love them – reveals how both groups create value through relations of obligation and love. I am in the early stages of two research projects. The first examines gender and sexuality-based activism in Mexico City. The second is about gender and fitness culture in the United States.