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Gender Nonconforming Activism in Brazil Today

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Gender Nonconforming Activism in Brazil Today April 14, 2022 12:00 pm - 1:20 pm Zoom - registration required How do gender nonconforming activists and other marginalized groups in Brazil contest normative liberalism and Jair Bolsonaro's “politics of...

WGS Alum Jia Hui Lee's Research Featured in MIT News

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WGS Alum Jia Hui Lee was featured in an MIT News article, " When rats work to protect human safety". Lee (AB '12), now a PhD candidate in MIT’s History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS) program, is reseraching global differences...

GSAS Gender & Sexuality Workshop

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Postponed from Wednesday, March 9 The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Gender and Sexuality Workshop is open to grad students in any discipline working on questions of gender and sexuality. Participants meet monthly to workshop papers and dissertation...

2010-2011 Pre-Approved Courses

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The following FAS courses were pre-approved for WGS concentration credit in the 2010-2011 academic year. If you would like to petition to count a course that does not appear on this list, please submit a copy of the syllabus to the director of...

Evelynn Hammonds Named Audre Lorde Visiting Professor of Queer Studies

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WGS Standing Committee member Evelynn Hammonds has been appointed the inaugural Audre Lorde Visiting Professor of Queer Studies at her undergraduate alma mater, Spelman College. The Audre Lorde chair is the first endowed professorship in queer studies at...

Undergraduate Program

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The Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality offers both a concentration (major) and secondary field (minor) for undergraduate students. Juniors can apply to write an undergraduate thesis during their senior year or to pursue a...

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Exploring Gender and Sexuality Across Disciplines Harvard's Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality (WGS) brings together a wide range of academic fields in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences (including history...

Making Comics as Feminist Practice: "Lissa," an EthnoGRAPHIC Story -- talk by Sherine Farouk Hamdy

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Sherine Farouk Hamdy is Associate Professor, Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine and coauthor of Lissa (University of Toronto Press, 2017), a graphic novel. This talk is a part of the Mahindra Humanities Center BBQ+: Studying Black, Brown...

Invisible Women: Prenatal Nutrition Research and the Vanishing Maternal Body -- talk by Meredith Reiches

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The body of a pregnant woman, according to twentieth century Western biomedical models, functions both as a passive receptacle through which energy and nutrients reach the fetus, and as a vicious competitor for those same resources. This talk explores the...

2012-2013 Pre-Approved Courses

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The following FAS courses were pre-approved for WGS concentration credit in the 2012-2013 academic year. If you would like to petition to count a course that does not appear on this list, please submit a copy of the syllabus to the director of...

FALL 2024 - Teaching Fellow 1 - ANTH 1906

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POSITION: Teaching Fellow 1 (pay code GSU003) COURSE LISTING: Anthropology 1906 COURSE TITLE: Care in Critical Times COURSE INSTRUCTOR: Andi Wright COURSE SCHEDULE: Fall 2024, Thursdays 12-2:45 - second half of class serves as student section COURSE...

Nadia Gaber

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After graduation, a friend recommended that I apply for an internship at the White House, as they were looking for students with a commitment to public service. I worked in Michelle Obama's office for six months, and, though I was proud to have been...