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Spotlight
Amber Handy
Graduation Year: 2011
Story:
Congratulations to Amber Handy (History/Medieval PhD) - Di...
Karen Monique Gregg
Graduation Year: PhD 2011
Story:
I aim to study the intersection of religion, gender, and social psychological processes in my career as an academic. Since the Department of Sociology does not offer a foc...
Abigail L. Palko
Graduation Year: PhD 2010
Story:
I defended my dissertation, entitled “Motherhood, Declined: Negotiating Maternal Subjectivities in Irish and Caribbean Novels, 1934-2007,” in December 2009 and...
Mandy Lewis
Graduation Year: 2010
Story:
One of the greatest things about being a Gender Studies major/minor is that it's NEVER boring. While studying transgenderism in Theories of Sexual Difference (Professo...
Andrea (Dre) Torres Hermoza
Graduation Year: 2009
Story:
Being a Gender Studies Major has helped my understanding and analysis of why women's roles are what they are in Latin American Politics. I have been able to apply the theo...
Meaghan Jennings/Patrick Bears
Graduation Year: 2010
Story:
For us, Gender Studies exists not merely as a major, but as a discipline that truly transcends the academic experience. It is this interdisciplinary field of study t...
Patrick Tighe
Graduation Year: 2010
Story:
By being a Gender Studies minor, I accomplished one of my life dreams—to write a play that deals with the intersection of relationships, desires, and pornography. Th...
Danny Nolan
Graduation Year: 2009
Story:
My Gender Studies Major has open my perspective and helped teach me about differing viewpoints that I had never really considered. I believe that ...
Stacey E. Williams
Graduation Year: 2008
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A major or minor in Gender Studies is incredibly valuable because of its real-world application. Since becoming involved with Gender Studies, hardly a day goes by wh...
Brandon Pierpont
Graduation Year: 2009
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My Gender Studies Minor has opened my mind to the many important influences that gender, race and class play in my society. I am now better able to recognize the sub...
Manuela Fernandez-Pinto
Graduation Year: PhD 2013
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I am mainly interested in feminist epistemology, and the relation between feminism and science. I think that the Gender Studies Minor offers a great opportunity to g...
Christine Klauer
Graduation Year: 2011
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As a Gender Studies minor I have developed the ability to articulate well-constructed ideas and arguments with a consciousness in history, learned or formulated, with the ...
Kelly McGauley
Graduation Year: 2011
Story:
It was my love for feminist fiction that I explored through my English major that initially interested me in Gender Studies, but as I began taking more classes in the prog...
Kelly Pierson
Graduation Year: 2011
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My Gender Studies courses have reconfirmed my passion for working toward equality and fairness in this world. This enthusiasm has led me to my summer internship for Women ...
Jill Schroeder
Graduation Year: 2010
Story:
As a freshman, I got placed in a class called Gender & Sexuality in Pop Media to fulfill my fine arts requirement. This class showed me how pervasive gender is in the ...
Miriam Olsen
Graduation Year: 2010
Story:
With a generous grant from the Boehnen Fund for Excellence in Gender Studies, I spent the summer between my junior and senior year rewriting the College HAS Issues program...
Amanda (Mandy) Lewis
Graduation Year: 2010
Story:
I just sort of fell into my Gender Studies major. My FYS advisor signed me up for the Intro to Feminist and Gender Theory course as an elective (becaus...
Jade Avelis
Graduation Year: MA 2011, PhD 2015
Story:
Gender is a consequential and ubiquitous aspect of human life that needs much additional formal analysis and discussion. Taking courses specifically addressing gender in v...
Ann Biddlecom
Graduation Year: 1989
Favorite Gender Studies:
My senior year was the very first year the Gender Studies Concentration was offered and so ...
Michael Zimmer
Graduation Year: 1994
Favorite Gender Studies:
The radical feeling I had taking “Feminist Theology” at ND, which prompted me t...
Kelley Tuthill
Graduation Year: 1992
Favorite Gender Studies:
I have wonderful memories of several gender studies professors including Kathleen Biddick, ...
Kelly Smith Gibson, MD
Graduation Year: 2004
Favorite Gender Studies:
I loved all my Gender Studies classes, but my favorite may have been my Feminist and Multic...
Sean MacCready
Graduation Year: 2004
Favorite Gender Studies:
Gender, Race, Class, and Sexuality in Music by Professor Paula Higgins.
Jessie Potish Taylor
Graduation Year: 2004
Favorite Gender Studies:
Two of my most memorable classes were Marriage and Family (a sociology course) and Women in...
Shannon Kelly
Graduation Year: 2002
Favorite Gender Studies:
Women & Religion with Professor Heidi Ardizzone or my GS Practicum with Professor Mary ...
Rose Lindgren
Graduation Year: 2004
Favorite Gender Studies:
Engendering Theology with Mary Rose D’Angelo was a fantastically eye-opening class. I...
Kellene Johnson McMillan
Graduation Year: 1993
Favorite Gender Studies:
My favorite teacher and class was Gender and the Law (at the law school) by Professor Phelp...
Mary Beth (Asmussen) Maginn
Graduation Year: 2003
Favorite Gender Studies:
Professor Sophie White’s class – history of clothing.
Emily Disque Hayes
Graduation Year: 2002
Favorite Gender Studies:
I enjoyed Gender Issues in the Law with Professor Phelps.
Mary Elizabeth Lasseter
Graduation Year: 1999
Favorite Gender Studies:
Now I work for an organization that uses food a means of exploring all the same gender/race...
Sarah (Sally) Koenig Simone
Graduation Year: 1997
Favorite Gender Studies:
Professor Biddick's history course
Catherine Sheehy
Graduation Year: 1992
Favorite Gender Studies:
So many, but Kathleen Maas Weigert's classes helped me find my voice, and motivated me ...
Events
Research Workshop February 10, 2012
Fri Feb 10, 2012 • 12:00PM - 1:00PM
E. Jane Doering, Professor in the College of Arts & Letters
Simone Weil & Flannery O’Connor: Images of Grace and Redemption within the Great Beast
Handout: "Everything...
MSPS presents Hiromi Ito
Thu Feb 23, 2012 • 6:30PM - 7:30PM
Japanese Poet Hiromi Itō will give a reading/talk on campus at 6:30 PM in McKenna Hall on Thursday, February 23. Ito is one of the most prominent women...
News
Hesburgh Library Concourse Exhibit
February 08, 2012
The Gender Studies Program invites you to visit our Hesburgh Library concourse exhibit (in the wall display case opposite the auditorium doors), featuring the work of Nicole Kenney (BFA ’03) and...
University hosts conference on gender and foodways
January 31, 2012
Food and gender everywhere, but never a bite to link … or is there?
The conference, "Food Networks: Gender and Foodways," hosted by the Notre Dame gender studies program, explored...
