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Spotlight
Joshua Whitaker
Graduation Year: 2013
Story:
I took the introductory course at the beginning of sophomore year and picked up the major soon after. I focused mainly on literature courses. It offered a theoretical/crit...
Maria McLeod
Graduation Year: 2013
Story:
Though I have always been interested in gender-related issues, it wasn't until I saw the film "Sin by Silence" during my sophomore year that I knew I wanted ...
Karl Abad
Graduation Year: 2013
Story:
Going out on a whim and taking a random Gender Studies course during my freshman year was probably one of the best decisions I have made here.
My Gender Studies...
Christa Dines
Graduation Year: 2014
Story:
Having taught English as a Second Language to refugees from Burma, Vietnam, and Afghanistan, I learned firsthand about problems facing women in countries and cultures wher...
Nora Goebelbecker
Graduation Year: 2014
Story:
I spent a large part of my sophomore year stumbling around various offices and websites, attempting to plan a summer research project that would fuse my Political Science ...
Jason G'Sell
Graduation Year: 2012
Story:
As a sophomore, my boyfriend at the time had declared a gender studies minor and talked about it incessantly. At first, I had no idea what he was talking about. As an acti...
Katherine M. Lukas
Graduation Year: 2012
Story:
I chose to minor in Gender Studies after recognizing the gendered nature of buying behavior and purchasing power. Female consumers control 70-80% of the purchasing power i...
Emma O'Brien
Graduation Year: 2012
Story:
I was a freshman biology major set to immerse myself in science for the next four years when my freshman year advisor recommended I take the Intro to Gender Studies course...
Melissa Buddie
Graduation Year: 2012
Story:
The Gender Studies Program has significantly enriched my educational experience at Notre Dame. One of my favorite classes that I have taken during my undergraduate career ...
Paige Gesicki
Graduation Year: 2012
Story:
When you can leave an intro class and feel that the subject not only informed your perspective on the world but also deepened your self-awareness, you have found a special...
Manuela Fernandez-Pinto
Graduation Year: PhD 2013
Story:
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...
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...
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 it&...
Brandon Pierpont
Graduation Year: 2009
Story:
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...
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...
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...
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...
Stacey E. Williams
Graduation Year: 2008
Story: 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 when I d...
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...
Amber Handy
Graduation Year: 2011
Story: Congratulations to Amber Handy (History/Medieval PhD) - Distingu...
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
Story:
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 media ...
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...
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 various...
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...
Christine Klauer
Graduation Year: 2011
Story: 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 set go...
Patrick Lasseter
Graduation Year: 2008
Favorite Gender Studies:
I enjoyed all my Gender Studies classes, especially Sex, Sexuality, and Gender in the U.S. ...
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 ...
Cat Rambo (Catherine Francis)
Graduation Year: 1989
Favorite Gender Studies:
I loved so many of my professors, but particularly Charlene Avallone and Gloria Jean Mascia...
Events
Graduation Brunch 2013
Wed Jul 31, 2013
Congratulations to our 2013 Graduates! View Slideshow of Gender Studies Graduation Brunch.
First-Year Orientation
Sat Aug 24, 2013
Orientation weekend is held each fall to introduce parents and students to campus life and to help them become more familiar with the University of Notre Dame. Among the planned activities...
News
G. Margaret Porter Graduate Writing Prize
May 20, 2013
The Gender Studies Program Graduate Writing Prize has been renamed the G. Margaret Porter Graduate Writing Prize in honor of G. Margaret Porter, who worked as the Gender Studies Librarian at...
2013 Summer Internship and Research Grant Recipients
May 08, 2013
Congratulations to our 2013 Summer Internship and Research Grant Recipients!
Genevieve D. Willis Senior Research Grant 2013 Recipients
The Genevieve D. Willis Research Grant is a competitive grant awarded...
