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On Monday, March 8th at 4:00 p.m. on the 7th floor of the AOK Library, Gender and Women's Studies will present a Humanities Forum Event. Our speaker, Hanne Blank, author and independent scholar,...

Liz Barr, who graduated UMBC with a GWST major in 2009, recently had a paper accepted for presentation at the Southeastern Women's Studies Association Conference (SEWSA), which will be held March...

Jennifer M. Keeter, 25, will graduate in December with a major in Gender and Women’s Studies and a minor in Social Welfare. Jen came to UMBC after transferring from Carroll Community College and...

On Saturday, November 14th, GWST students presented a panel at the National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) annual conference in Atlanta, Georgia. GWST majors, Abigail Grainger, Eva Jannotta...

On November 5, 2009 at 4:30 p.m. in the AOK Library Gallery, Gender + Women's Studies will present the third annual Korenman Lecture, a Social Sciences Forum event. The guest speaker is Rhacel...

GWST 490 - Issues and Themes in Black, Queer and Feminist Film In this course we will be examining prominent issues and themes in selected films (on video and DVD) that fall within the categories...

Carole McCann, Associate Professor and Director of Gender & Women's Studies and Seung-kyung Kim, Associate Professor, Women's Studies, UM College Park, have recently completed the second...

GWST is proud of three of our majors who will be studying abroad in the fall semester. Sabah Ghulamali will be traveling to Brisbane, Australia to study at the University of Queensland where she...

A Shining Thread of Hope By Darlene Clark Hine The story of a Black woman born into slavery and the trials that she endured, the battles she fought and the changes she made that led to the...

If you were unable to attend the first annual Korenman Lecture featuring Cynthia Enloe, you may still hear her talk by going to the Social Sciences Forum page at...