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Women's and Gender Studies
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Recent News
Anna Kirkland Featured in CNN Article
She says, "health depends on a whole host of governmental and communal and economic factors that individuals alone can’t control.”
Two WGS Faculty Selected as 2025 Health Care Heroes
Joanne Bailey and Erica Marsh were selected as 2025 Health Care Heroes by Crain's Detroit Business.
Founded in 1973, the University of Michigan Women's and Gender Studies Department is an interdisciplinary academic unit within the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. The Department is a diverse intellectual community dedicated to excellence through feminist research, teaching, and activism. It seeks to build interdisciplinary collaborations among faculty and students that bridge gender, racial, ethnic, economic, and national divides; create new knowledge about women, gender, race, class, sexuality, and disability; challenge unequal distributions of power; and improve the lives of all individuals and communities.
Events
Oct
15
Multi
ICE in the Heartland: Community Impacts of Worksite Immigration Raids
Exhibition at Lane Hall
9:00 AM
Lane Hall Exhibit Space--First Floor
Lane Hall
Nov
06
DISCO Network Presents - Diaspora Wars and Going 50/50: Sowing Disunity in Black Communities Through Digital Propaganda
Brooklyne Gipson, Jamilah Lemieux, and AE Stevenson in conversation with Catherine Knight Steele
4:00 PM
2435
North Quad
