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WGS Graduate Secondary Fielder Siobhan Kelly joins BU’s Society of Fellows

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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!

WGS Graduate Secondary Field Alum Jewel Pereyra Named Hutchins Center W.E.B. Du Bois Research Fellow

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Jewel Pereyra has been named a Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow in the Hutchins Center, as part of the next cohort of W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute Fellows. Congratulations, Jewel! Read the full list of fellows here.

I am a graduate student at another university. How do I apply to be a visiting student at Harvard?

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WGS does not offer any graduate degrees, and we are unable to accept graduate students as special students or visiting fellows. 

If you are a graduate student who wishes to visit Harvard, you must apply to one of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences' ...

Meet WGS's Diversity Inclusion Belonging Fellow, Chrystel Oloukoï

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Please join WGS in welcoming WGS's new Diversity Inclusion Belonging Fellow, Chrystel Oloukoï. Chrystel is available to meet with undergraduates and graduate students and will host a discussion series in Spring 22 on issues of sexuality and representation...

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WGS supports coursework, mentoring, and intellectual community in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality for graduate students across Harvard’s departments and professional schools. Graduate student opportunities for training in WGS studies include the...

Graduate Secondary Field

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Overview of WGS Secondary Field The secondary field in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality has two purposes: to help qualify students for employment relating to studies of women, gender, and sexuality to help graduate students form productive and...

Graduate Alum Wins MLA Award

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Stephen Vider, who received his PhD from American Studies with a graduate secondary field in WGS, received the G/LQ Caucus' Crompton-Noll award at the 2015 Modern Language Association convention in Vancouver. The award, which honors the year's best essay...

Tara Yazdan Panah

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Tara Yazdan Panah graduated from Harvard Divinity School in 2025. She publishes cultural commentary and critical essays about literature, film, feminism, philosophy, and whatever else in the zeitgeist that might happen to pique her interest. Her writing...

Congratulations to WGS's Graduate Secondary Fielders

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Maria Bovea PasqualPh.D., Romance Languages and Literatures Dissertation: Breaking the Mold: Re-Imagining Gender in Contemporary Literature Awarded an exchange with the École Normale Supérieure in Paris during academic year 2024-2025 Recipient of a...

WGS Alums Edit Special Issue of Feminist Journal

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WGS graduates Jennifer Nash and Emily Owens have guest-edited the winter 2015 issue of Feminist Formations, a special issue on "Institutional Feelings: Practicing Women’s Studies in the Corporate University." Jennifer Nash received her A.B. in Women's...

Scott Poulson-Bryant Wins Advocacy Award

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WGS Graduate secondary field student Scott Poulson-Bryant received the 2016 BGLTQ Advocacy Award at Office of BGLTQ Student Life’s annual Lavender Graduation. This award is given annually to “a non-undergraduate member of the Harvard community who has...

Stargazing -- presented by TEDxHarvardCollege

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TEDxHarvardCollege 2017 is proud to present “Stargazing”—in which we’ll celebrate the leaps of imagination and incidental thoughts that have evolved into the world-changing ideas fueling this era. Our daydreams, visions, and speculations contain the seeds...