Harvard Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

03/03/2020

For the eighth year in a row, WGS Professor Caroline Light has been selected as one of the senior class's favorite professors!

The class of 2020 has chosen WGS's Director of Undergraduate Studies, Caroline Light, as one of their favorite professors. She will be featured in this year's edition of the Harvard Yearbook. This is the eighth time Professor Light has been selected for this honor. Please join WGS in congratulating....

01/30/2020

If you can't attend today's symposium, "The Legacy of Dominicanidad: A Symposium on the Work of Logia García Peña," you can stream it on YouTube.

A Symposium on the Work of Lorgia Garcia Pena

11/27/2019

Congratulations to WGS concentrators Sai Shanthanand S. Rajagopal (’20) and Constance M. Bourguignon ('20), who were just selected as Rhodes Scholars!

Two WGS concentrators, Sai Shanthanand S. Rajagopal (’20) and Constance M. Bourguignon ('20), are among the seven Harvard seniors to win Rhodes Scholarships for study at Oxford University in the UK. Rajagopal (’20) is a joint concentrator in Biomedical Engineering and WGS, and Bourguignon ('20) ...

10/16/2019

An article about WGS's Professor Sarah Richardson is the cover story in the November-December issue of Harvard Magazine.

Historian and philosopher Sarah Richardson interrogates the science of s*x and gender.

10/11/2019

Join us this afternoon! Visit link below for registration information.

Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Imani Perry, and Robert Reid-Pharr will join in conversation to discuss how their work as biographers speaks to key contemporary discussions about black politics, community, identity, and life.

08/28/2019

Congratulations to WGS's Professor Linda Schlossberg, whose latest humor piece appeared on McSweeny's today!

My therapist says I have masochistic tendencies and I need to put my own needs first, and my arborist says I can’t afford to lose any more branches...

08/06/2019

WGS is hiring a tenured full professor in feminist and q***r theory!

Feminist and Q***r Theory The Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and S*xuality at Harvard University seeks to appoint a tenured full professor in Women, Gender, and S*xuality. We invite candidates with expertise in Feminist and Q***r Epistemologies; Women of Color Feminisms; Intersect...

07/11/2019

WGS Professor Robert Reid-Pharr has a new piece out in Humanities Magazine on the renaissance of interest in Lorraine Hansberry. In it he talks about Tracy Heather Strain's documentary, which WGS and the Hutchins Center screened last spring, and the award-winning biography by Imani Perry, who will be visiting Harvard on October 11 as part of an event on Writing Black Lives with Professor Reid-Pharr and Professor Tomiko-Brown Nagin.

HUMANITIES: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities Feature Lorraine Hansberry’s Remarkable Renaissance Is Timely, Exciting, Awkward, and Necessary Robert F. Reid-Pharr HUMANITIES, Summer 2019, Volume 40, Number 3 Photo caption Hansberry in her New York City apartment in 1959. Ph...

06/28/2019

Read WGS Professor Michael Bronski's Time magazine article on the hidden links between Victoria Woodhull's fight for s*xual liberation and the modern LGBTQ movement.

https://time.com/5612564/free-love-victoria-woodhull/

06/12/2019

WGS is looking for an experienced Harvard grad student to TF for our Senior Tutorial next year. Click the link to find out more!

June 12, 2019 WGS seeks an advanced graduate student to oversee the Senior Thesis Tutorial (WOMGEN 99A/B) for AY 2019-20. This group tutorial meets weekly until spring break in March. In consultation with the ADUS and utilizing the WGS Senior Thesis Guide, the Tutor will develop lesson plans and gro...

06/03/2019

Check out WGS's complete 2019-20 course list!
https://wgs.fas.harvard.edu/wgs-courses

05/22/2019

Congratulations to WGS alumna Shauna Shames on her promotion to associate professor with tenure at Rutgers University-Camden!

Shauna Shames A.B. '01Women's Studies and Social Studies As you'll see from this short history, WGS has had a tremendous impact on my life. In fact, you can trace just about everything I've done since graduating back to WGS, and my senior thesis in particular. I wrote my thesis about women's strateg...