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Fields of Specialization

Race, Sexualities and Social Justice

This concentration area provides students with intellectual tools to understand the social, cultural, and political significance of race and sexuality, and their intersections with other dimensions of difference and identity such as class, dis/ability, nationality, age, and religion, in the U.S. and around the world. Courses reflect a variety of interdisciplinary frameworks, theoretical perspectives, and empirical methods related to the study of social identities, patterns of inequality, and political activisms linked to social justice.   

Narrative, Culture and Representation

This concentration offers rich opportunities for students to partake in discussions of race, gender, sexuality, class, ethnicity, religion, and dis/ability through engaging cultural texts and production from both historical and contemporary perspectives. The arts, literature, mass and digital media are sites of inquiry, allowing students to comprehensively understand how and why representation matters and affects lived experiences of individuals and communities.

Global and Transnational Feminisms

This area is dedicated to the study of feminist thinking and activism around the world.  The concept of global feminism invites students to think about how feminism is expressed and invested in nationally or geographically specific locations.  The concept of transnational refers to the multiple and complex ways that gender, race and sexuality are embedded in and produced by institutions, economies, and global ideas. 

Power, Institutions and Economies

This concentration examines how workplaces, schools, the government, police, prison, marriage, and the home are all institutional places that shape experience, proscribe behavior, or exclude non-normative bodies and people.  Classes in this concentration examine how they affect women worldwide and how are they changing with globalization.  Students study how feminists affect institutional policy and bureaucracies in search of more just futures.

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