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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.

**We are now accepting submissions and nominations for the Carol Woody Real World Internship Awards (deadline February 10, 2012); the Dean's Prize for Student Scholarship on Women (deadline April 15, 2012); and the Friends of Women's Studies Prize for Student Activism (deadline April 13, 2012). Send in your work or your ideas today!!

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. Find out about the latest goings-on in our newsletter!

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.

English Professor Sharon Marcus of Columbia University will talk about “The Double Life of Female Celebrity" on Tuesday, March 13th, at 6 pm in Andrews Hall 101. A reception will follow. All are welcome!

Initiative to support, empower women STEM faculty

A group of five William & Mary Psychology and Neuroscience professors recently received a $580,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to benefit women faculty in science, technology, mathematics and engineering (STEM) disciplines.