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The Department of Women’s and Gender Studies includes faculty with a primary appointment within the program, as well as affiliated faculty who teach courses in the department, but whose appointment is in another department or program (e.g. Communication, English, Latin American/Latino Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, African & Black Diaspora Studies, among many others).

The Department of Women’s and Gender Studies faculty members have wide-ranging research interests. Some of these interests include intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality; cross-cultural perspectives; violence against women; women in the Middle East; lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, and transgender identities and politics; autobiography; queer theories; immigrant women; globalization; transnational feminist perspectives; antiracism; gender and education; feminist theories and politics; gender and family violence; and performance studies among others.