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Women's and Gender Studies
Recent News
Liz Cole and Patrick Grzanka Selected as Co-Editors of Journal of Social Issues
Congratulations, Professors Cole and Grzanka!
Professors Lilia Cortina, Patrick Grzanka, and Meg Sweeney receive awards at annual celebration
Congratulations, Professors Cortina, Grzanka, and Sweeney!
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
Nov
06
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
Nov
07
Multi
CGIS GCC Information Sessions: Spring 2026
2:00 PM
Virtual
