Sexuality, Women’s, and Gender Studies
Sexuality, Women’s, and Gender Studies (SWAG) is an interdisciplinary field that emphasizes the core principles of intersectionality and social justice. Through courses offered across the academic disciplines, you’ll learn to employ a variety of methodological approaches, bringing together research and activism.
By engaging in intersectional analysis, you’ll develop an understanding of how race, class, gender, sexuality, ability, and other aspects of identity shape the experiences of individuals and groups. You’ll learn to apply theoretical concepts to your own experience, analyze structures of systemic privileges and oppressions, and recognize the ways that identity categories shape knowledge and experience.
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Sexuality, Women’s, and Gender Studies (SWAG) advances and generates interdisciplinary knowledge about women, gender, and sexuality, with a focus on intersectionality and social justice.
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Sexuality, Women’s, and Gender Studies
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Kim Dennis, PhD
Professor of Art History
Research interests: Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture, with a particular interest in women’s involvement in the arts as artists, patrons, and subjects
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Joanna Eisele, PhD
Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, Faculty Director of SWAG
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Jill Jones, PhD
Professor
Research interests: 19th- and 20th-century American literature, African American literature, women writers, and autobiography
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Amy McClure, PhD
Associate Professor of Sociology
Research interests: Secularism and parenting; intersectionality of gender; sexualities, race, and class; and the scholarship of teaching and learning
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Margaret McLaren, PhD
Professor of Philosophy
Research interests: Human rights and globalization, feminist theory and gender issues, and 20th-century French philosophy
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L. Ryan Musgrave, PhD
Department Chair; Associate Professor of Philosophy; Faculty Director of Sexuality, Women’s, and Gender Studies
Research interests: Philosophy of law, social and political philosophy, aesthetics, feminist theory, American philosophy, and philosophy of education
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Paul Reich, PhD
Professor
Research interests: Late 19th- and 20th-century American literature, African American literature, the American West, and popular culture