The 2025 WGSS Newsletter is a special edition, as we celebrate our 50th anniversary at OSU. Read on to learn more about all the exciting things happening in WGSS right now!
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2025 Newsletter
2025 Newsletter
In this issue
Message from the chair
WGSS Department Chair, Dr.Mytheli Sreenivas As WGSS enters its 50th year at Ohio State, we have much to celebrate. Thanks to decades of commitment from…
Celebrating 50 Years in WGSS
An abridged 50 years of WGSS history As a result of the Civil Rights Movement and the increased presence of women on Ohio State’s campus, the need for classes…
Formación: Representing 50 Years of feminist studies at Ohio State
In 2016, The Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies proudly announced the inauguration of the first graffiti mural on the Ohio State campus titled Formación. This title speaks of the…
The academic year in review
2025 WGSS Spring Reception Guests at WGSS annual spring reception in April 2025 There was much to celebrate at the WGSS annual spring reception in April!…
Graduate program
About WGSS graduate programs WGSS graduate students complete curriculum in feminist inquiry, pedagogy and methods, and engage in WGSS elective courses on topics such as feminism television…
Undergraduate program
About WGSS undergraduate programsNow more than ever, WGSS helps us to ask and answer the most pressing questions of our time. With a commitment to analyzing relationships of power, challenging forms…
Celebrations in WGSS
Faculty publications and ExhibitionsBayan AbusneinehAbusneineh, Bayan. 2024. “Who Is Entitled to Bear Children? Discourses of Race and Eugenics in the Law of Return.” Critical Ethnic Studies 9, no. 1…
Ohio State's Prison Education Exchange Program (OPEEP)
About OPEEPOhio State’s Prison Education Exchange Project (OPEEP) is led by Dr. Mary Thomas, professor of women’s, gender and sexuality studies on the Columbus campus, and Dr. Tiyi Morris, associate…
FREE Center
About the FREE Center Ohio State’s Center for Feminist Research, Education and Engagement (FREE Center), housed in the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, launched in fall 2023.…