Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
Founded in 1991, Women's Studies is one of the first interdisciplinary programs at William & Mary, offering both a major and a minor. We have four core faculty and dozens of affiliated faculty from a range of departments and schools. Read our latest newsletter!
The Women's Studies program also features a significant invited lecturer each spring for the Annual Minnie Braithwaite Lecture. And we co-sponsor a monthly brownbag series with Africana Studies, in which a faculty member or student shares his or her research in a friendly, informal setting. The program also has funds to support events on campus.
Around twenty students each year graduate from William & Mary with a BA in Women's Studies, and they go on to careers in non-profits, law, government, teaching, and academia.
Note that in 2013 the program's name is changing to Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies and that we are updating the website.
GSWS professor discovers missing letters by nineteenth-century writer
Jennifer Putzi's edition of the letters of novelist, journalist and poet Elizabeth Stoddard has just been published.Women's Studies is now Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies
On February 5, 2013, the faculty of Arts & Sciences voted unanimously in support of a change of name for the Women's Studies Program.