Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies

This Spring, we close out another challenging year together. At the forefront of my mind is our work around labor and care. We have been having many conversations about negotiating self- and other- care in our institutional context, power relations, ...

We are excited to announce women’s studies scholar, Katherine Lynch, was selected alongside Dr. Hilary Coulson for an Emerging Scholar Faculty-Student Research Award. The Emerging Scholars Program from the UF Center for Undergraduate Research was founded to pair full-time undergraduate ...

Milan Savoury graduated with a BS in Psychology and a BA in Women’s Studies in 2016. She went on to earn a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology and is set to graduate in August 2022 with a PhD in Counseling ...

Terri Bailey graduated with the MA in Women’s Studies in Spring 2022. She hosted Warrior Women’s Wellness, a day-long, multigenerational workshop celebrating Self-Care for the Feminine Divine, and successfully defended her MA Project, Womanfesto of the Divine Feminine and the ...

Zoe Terner, a double major in Women’s Studies and English with minors in Sociology and Disabilities in Society, was chosen as the student speaker at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences recognition ceremony, held on April 30th , at ...

Each year, the Women’s Conference of Florida selects up to four students from each institution to participate in the College Women on the Rise Program. The Women’s Conference of Florida brings together Florida’s professional women to address important issues, network, ...

The Center is proud to announce this year’s Charles T. Woods Endowment Grants. These grants are made possible by the generosity of Charles T. Woods to support research and service that benefits the LGBTQ+ community. Chuck, as friends and colleagues ...

Kathryn Turner (she/her) graduated in 2009 with an MA in women’s studies. She holds post-graduate certificates in communications and technology and web development from UNC Chapel Hill and East Carolina University respectively. Read more "Alumni Spotlight: Kathryn Turner"

The Center co-sponsored many events this academic year. For complete list of co-sponsorships, see events calendar on our website https://wst.ufl.edu/ “The Problem with Diversity and Inclusion” was held on October 13th, 2021. The event featured, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, and examined interdisciplinary ...

Thank you 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, scholarship funds, speaker honoraria, and exhibit support. Opportunities for Giving to the UF Center ...

Dr. Nilufer Akalin taught introduction to health disparities, discrimination and health, and a new course focused on gender, race, immigration, and health for the Center. She also coordinated the practicum for the Center’s health disparities in society minor, placing about ...

Terri Bailey is part of a research team awarded the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities in Place grant to pursue community-engaged artmaking research to advance racial equity in Gainesville Ecem Ece is this year’s winner of UF’s Association for Academic Women’s ...

The Center offers an interdisciplinary forum for the study of gender and sexualities and their intersections with race/ethnicity, class, and other sociocultural systems. Our vision is to use the tools of gender, sexualities, and women’s studies research to produce and ...

Congratulations to Center for Gender, Sexualities, and Women’s Studies Research’s graduates, earning Master’s Degrees, Terri L. Bailey, Priya A. Gurjar, Bailey Moore Haas, Maria C. Saldana, Jess Trochez, and Lucy Xie (see Celebrating Milestones). Congratulations to our graduate certificate students ...