Ethnic Studies, Disability Studies, Gender Studies & Pacific Islands Studies, University of Utah.
08/23/2026
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The Department of Ethnic, Gender & Disability Studies (EGD) is looking for a student to support our outreach and communication objectives.
If this sounds like you, weād love to hear from you! Applications are due Friday, August 28th.
For more information: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18hYn3tb5BLMrn75YCVPCvcLcxgOkCVe6seWuyucJqjg/edit?usp=sharing
Our Hello We Are series continues!
Today, weād like you to meet our marvelous lead advisor, Theo Maltby.
Schedule an appointment with Theo ā link below ā and get help with degree planning questions, explore course options, and learn about key insight to get you to that graduation finish line!š¤
EGDS advising: https://egdstudies.utah.edu/advising/
08/19/2026
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The Department of Ethnic, Gender & Disability Studies is a cutting-edge academic program that explores how race, gender, disability, sexuality, class, citizenship and other social categories shape our lives. The Department is committed to fostering civic-minded, critical thinking, and culturally informed students. Our interdisciplinary and intersectional degrees prepare students for careers in education, law, health, social work, community organizing, and more.
Take a class, stop by our lounge, or speak to an advisor to learn more!
Campus speed tour! Department of Ethnic, Gender, and Disability Studies edition šāāļø
08/12/2026
Still building that Fall Semester schedule? These courses would love to have you!
We have many open classes, and excited professors, eager to share their knowledge in subjects like literature, criminology, and abolition ā just to name a few. š¤
Peruse the class schedule here to learn more: https://class-schedule.app.utah.edu/main/1268/index.html
Or click the link in our story highlight: Fall 2026 course, for more information!
08/12/2026
Still building that Fall Semester schedule? These courses would love to have you!
We have many open classes, and excited professors, eager to share their knowledge in subjects like literature, criminology, and abolition ā just to name a few. š¤
Click the link in our Fall EGDS course story highlight to take a look at the class schedule and to learn more about each course! https://class-schedule.app.utah.edu/main/1268/index.html
Hello, we are:
The Department of Ethnic, Gender, and Disability Studies. You can call us EGDS for short.
The Fall 2026 semester awaits, and weāre so excited to see you soon. Before then, weād like to (re)introduce ourselves.
Meet some of the cool folks youāll find in the halls and offices of EGDS! First up, our extraordinary Department Chair, Dr. Ella Myers.
Video description:
The video starts with a hand writingĀ the following messages on a notebook: Welcome back! We are so excited for the upcoming fall semester! But who are we? Itās about time we introduce the wonderful folks who make up EGDSā¦ Meet the department chair!
A āHello, my name isā sticker with the name Ella Myers is placed on the previous message.Ā Ā
This is followed with a brief interview with Dr. Ella Myers in her office.
The final clip is of a āHello, my name isā graphic accompanied by the text: The Department of Ethnic, Gender, and Disability Studies.
08/08/2026
Welcome back! Weāve missed you.
We are gearing up for the new semester at the Department of Ethnic, Gender, and Disability Studies.
We look forward to building new memories, learning more about our collective world, and sharing all of the cool things our staff, faculty, and students are working towards.
Stay tuned, thereās much more to come!
05/21/2026
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.
05/21/2026
Fall 2026 course highlight: GNDR 6500
Debates in Gender Studies
Tuesdays 2-5 PM with Professor Debjani Chakravarty