Welcome To Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Gender and Women's Studies is a vibrant interdisciplinary academic program that coordinates a wide range of research, teaching and public service activities emphasizing intersectional approaches to the study of gender, race, class, ethnicity, and sexuality in national and transnational contexts.
We offer a well-established undergraduate major, undergraduate minor, and graduate minor. The program currently has 16 core faculty and nearly 70 additional affiliated faculty across twelve different colleges in the university. We invite you to explore our program website and to contact us for further information.
Announcements
"Race, Sex, Deviance" Art Gallery
Friday, April 11
GWS House
911 S. Sixth
Noon to 4 pm
Pizza and Soda provided
The "Race, Sex, Deviance" art gallery will be an exhibition of the original work of students enrolled in the class by the same name. The goal of the class, as well as of the gallery, is to explore the ways in which race and sex intersect in ways deemed (by the state and/or society in general) as "deviant." Whether interrogating the description of Black families as "a tangle of pathology" (by senator Patrick Moynihan in 1965) or critically examining the dynamic between white queerness and non-white queerness, student art will reflect the material of the class as part of a broader effort to educate the UIUC community on the power of intersectional analysis centered on a Queer of Color Critique.
