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Women's and Gender Studies
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Recent News
PhD Candidate Samantha Adams Recieves Inaugural Sidonie Smith Award
Sam earned the Sidonie Smith Award for Doctoral Studies Completion in the Humanities to support her work at the Institute for the Humanities.
Jennifer Jones Awarded 2025-2026 Faculty Fellow in the Institute for the Humanities
From many applications, Professor Jones is one of eight selected for the fellowship.
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
Sep
05
30th Anniversary of the Joint Ph.D. Program in Psychology and Women's & Gender Studies
Celebrating Feminist Psychology: Origin Points & Necessary Futures
10:00 AM
4448
East Hall
Sep
19
Celebrating Global Feminisms: Two Decades of Collaborative Engagement, 2002-2025
The Global Feminisms Project
9:00 AM
Rogel Ballroom
Michigan Union
