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WGS Graduate Secondary Fielder Siobhan Kelly will join Boston University’s Society of Fellows in fall 2024. Kelly expects to complete their PhD in Religion, Gender, and Culture this spring. Congratulations, Siobhan!

Graduate Degree Candidates The deadline for May 2024 GSAS degree candidates to submit Ph.D. secondary field applications to the Office of the Registrar is Monday, April 1, 2024. There are no exceptions to this deadline. Please review the WGS Secondary...

Caroline Light and Marya Mtshali (now in the Sociology department at Bucknell) co-authored a Tampa Bay Times opinion piece about the implications for fertility care of the recent Alabama ruling that frozen embryos are children.

Professor Viterna's editorial on the cruelty of Texas' abortion laws appeared in CNN's Opinion section. Viterna's article discusses the case of Kate Cox, a Texas woman who was denied an abortion for her non-viable pregnancy. She draws comparisons to her...

WGS Professor Robin Bernstein's forthcoming book, Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit, has garnered praise from activist icon Angela Davis, anti-racist activist and professor Ibram X. Kendi, among many other...

WGS' GenderSci Lab, led by Dr. Sarah Richardson, welcomes Alexandra Kralick as its first postdoctoral fellow. Kralick earned her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Anthropology where her research focused on differences in orangutan...

Professor Steph Burt's brand-new course on Taylor Swift is making national headlines. In ENG 183ts, students will "learn how to study fan culture, celebrity culture, adolescence, adulthood and appropriation; how to think about white texts, Southern texts...

WGS Professor Linda Schlossberg is on Dzanc Books' list of honorees for this year's Prize for Fiction for her book The Incubator. Congratulations, Linda!