Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies

This has been a milestone year for us. Our proposal to establish a Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies went through the final approval steps and we started Fall 2022 formally as a department. Our proposal garnered overwhelming support ...

We are excited to welcome our new graduate students to the Department’s MA program: Mona Ashour, Rose Capo, Cecilia Luna, Angelica McGee, and Tegan Smith. Their research interests cover a myriad of topics, and they each bring a rich range ...

Welcome Back, Second-Year MA Candidates We are delighted to welcome back our second-year MA candidates as they continue their endeavors and their theses and projects. Ebonee Brown is a second-year MA candidate in the Department for Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. She ...

Thanks to everyone whose generosity helps the Center continue to thrive, including the following donors: Gifts to the Center are used to fund conferences, educational travel for graduate students, scholarship funds, speaker honoraria, and exhibit support. Ustler Hall Opportunities for Giving to ...

The Department is proud to announce that Associate Professor Jillian Hernandez will lead a group of University of Florida students on an immersive learning experience on Columbia’s Caribbean coast this summer. The course, Latina Gender and Popular Culture, will examine ...

Department faculty and graduate students presented their scholarship at multiple conferences, from San Juan to Cincinnati. We have captured some moments here. Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 2022 Graduate certificate student Sumaiya Nusrath and core ...

Come Earn your Women’s Studies Masters’ with us. Participate in a vibrant community of scholars. Program fully funded. Course subjects offered: data feminisms; ecofeminism; lgbtq+ health; black feminist theories; feminist methods; lgbtq+ movements and activisms; race, sex & representation; critical ...

We invite students and faculty to submit proposals for the following Center awards and grants: AAUW Gainesville Student Grant The AAUW Gainesville Branch Student Grant provides up to $1000 to support women’s studies students to conduct research, education, or initiatives that align ...

María Saldana (she/ella) graduated cum laude from UF with a BA in Women’s Studies and a BS in Psychology in 2020 and earned an MA in Women’s Studies in 2022. She is a Program Associate at the National Equity Project ...

Liliana Jaramillo Mestra Liliana Jaramillo Mestra is a Sociologist from the Universidad del Valle – Cali, Colombia, and PhD student from the Universidad de La Laguna in Spain. For 2022-2023 she is a Visiting Scholar at UF, thanks to Fulbright Spain, ...

Undergraduates Wafaa Ateyah Spring 2019 B.S. Psychology and B.A. Women’s Studies I am currently pursuing my PhD in Counseling Psychology at the University of Florida! My training in women’s studies allowed me to have the vocabulary to describe my lived experiences as an Arab American ...

This year was pivotal for many Women’s Studies students who used their Washington D.C. internship opportunities to put their knowledge to the test. “Experiential learning opportunities allow students to take theories and knowledge gained in the classroom and apply them ...

Students pursuing graduate work in the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies will become acquainted with various feminist (and other appropriate) theoretical approaches and methodologies for examining the role of gender in cultural systems. Gender will be understood in ...