U of U EGD Studies

Fall 2026 course highlight: GNDR 5600/6600 Crosslisted with ETHNC 5600
Women of Color Feminisms
Professor Debjani Chakravarty
Monday/Wednesday 3:00-4:20 PM
Fall 2026
This course centers and extends women of color feminist theorizing through a focus on border theory/borderlands/liminalities embedded within diasporic, q***r, postcolonial, and futurist studies. Women of Color scholarship is situated as key to understanding, tracing, and rethinking epistemologies, ontologies, politics and embodiments of a complicated (post) colonial world. This critical course attends to identifying how border theory- specifically feminist theorizing of dislocation and dis/embodiment- and how resistance is enacted, felt, theorized, and reimagined.
Through reading and discussion of evocative and enduring texts written by women of color feminists, this course defines and redefines gender and sexuality, race and class, transgression and q***rness, borders and boundaries, land and loss, community and communication, treaties and treatment, diversity and equity, and Blackness and Indigeneity. Through theory and poetry, lived experiences and standpoints, histories and stories, this advanced course encourages difficult dialogue and critical thinking.

Fall 2026 course highlight: GNDR 6500
Debates in Gender Studies
Tuesdays 2-5 PM with Professor Debjani Chakravarty

Jill Dumont is a recent graduate from the Department of Ethnic, Gender & Disability Studies. From Jill:

The thing that I have loved the most about being a student in EGD studies is the community. I feel like I have had the environment to learn about myself and others while also growing. I have made some amazing friendships in my time in this department and I hope that all students take advantage of the amazing community this department holds.

Today we had our Department of Ethnic, Gender & Disability Studies Graduation Celebration! We are so proud of our 2026 graduates! Thank you to the faculty, family and friends who joined us in celebrating our graduates. Our amazing student keynote speakers, Jillian Dumont and Daniel Matteo Romero-Guerrero, and the College of Humanities Dean, Wanda Pillow, all gave fabulous addresses at our program.

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All students graduating with an EGDS major or minor is invited to our Graduation Celebration on Friday, May 1st at 2:30PM at the Union!

Friends and family welcome. Please RSVP with the QR code or the link https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfpERmK2BufWrQUmDltdZ-HS1u6F0WNCQXQGKVhsa2RxgLjeg/viewform

Happy Fall Registration! Looking for an amazing online course to add to your fall 2026 schedule? Consider Asian American Politics (ETHNC 3430/POLS 5960) with professor Annie Fukushima!



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Fall 2026 course highlight: GNDR 5960/ETHNC 4850
Abolitionist Feminisms

Mon/Wed 3-4:20pm with professor Jaimie Crumley

Fall 2026 course highlight: GNDR 5120
Gender and Nature

Tu/Th 10:45am -12:05pm with Professor Kilo Zamora

Fall 2026 course highlight: ETHNC 4505
Mexico and the United States: A Shared History

Online with Professor Erin Graham