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Women's and Gender Studies

315 WLH, 100 Wall, 432.0845

Chair
Margaret Homans (English; Women's & Gender Studies)

Professors
Mahzarin Banaji (Psychology), Linda Bartoshuk (Psychology), Kelly Brownell (Psychology), Jill Campbell (English), Hazel Carby (African American Studies; American Studies), Kang-i Sun Chang (East Asian Languages & Literatures), Cathy Cohen (Political Science; African American Studies), Nancy Cott (History; American Studies), Deborah Davis (Sociology; East Asian Studies), Glenda Gilmore (History), Paul Gilroy (Sociology; African American Studies), Ingeborg Glier (German), Sara Suleri Goodyear (English), Dolores Hayden (Architecture; American Studies), Paula Hyman (History; Religious Studies), Vera Kutzinski (American Studies; African American Studies; English), Marianne LaFrance (Psychology; Women's & Gender Studies), Charles Musser (Film Studies; American Studies), Cynthia Russett (History), Harold Scheffler (Anthropology), Naomi Schor (French), Vicki Schultz (Law School), Helen Siu (Anthropology), William Summers (Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry), Robert Wyman (Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology)

Associate Professors
Kathryn Dudley (American Studies), Joshua Gamson (Sociology), Janet Henrich (School of Medicine), Serene Jones (Divinity School), Laura Wexler (American Studies; Women's & Gender Studies)

Assistant Professors
Jennifer Bair (Sociology), Jessica Brantley (English), Hannah Brueckner (Sociology), Kamari Clarke (Anthropology), Elizabeth Dillon (English), Laura Frost (English), Nora Groce (Epidemiology & Public Health), Peter Hegarty (Visiting, Women's & Gender Studies; Psychology), Mary Lui (History), Michael Mahoney (History), Linda-Anne Rebhun (Anthropology), Naomi Rogers (Women's & Gender Studies; History of Medicine), Alicia Schmidt Camacho (American Studies), Michael Trask (English)

Lecturers
Pamela Bro, Susan Rieger, Vron Ware (Sociology)

Women's and Gender Studies, an interdisciplinary field, establishes gender and sexuality as fundamental categories of social and cultural analysis. It offers new critical perspectives from which to study the diversity of human experience. The introduction of these perspectives into all fields of knowledge necessitates new research, criticism of existing research (assumptions, methods, conclusions), and the formulation of new paradigms and organizing concepts. Gender (the social meaning of the distinction between the sexes) and sexuality (sexual practices, identities, discourses, and institutions) are studied in their interaction with such aspects of identity as class, race, ethnicity, and nationality.

Faculty members affiliated with Women's and Gender Studies are available to graduate students as advisers, and they offer graduate courses of relevance to Women's and Gender Studies in their own departments and schools (most frequently African American Studies, American Studies, Anthropology, Divinity, English, History, Law, Psychology, and Sociology). Graduate students may draw on these resources to develop a focus on Women's and Gender Studies while working toward degrees in their chosen disciplines.

Program materials are available on request from the Chair, Women's and Gender Studies Program, Yale University, PO Box 208319, New Haven CT 06520-8319.

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