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Welcome to Dr. Rita Mookerjee!

The Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Iowa State is pleased to announce the addition of Dr. Rita Mookerjee to our core faculty! Rita (she/her/hers) joins us as a recent graduate of the English Department at Florida State University. Her specialization is contemporary literature of the Caribbean with a focus on gender and food studies. … Continue reading Welcome to Dr. Rita Mookerjee!

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Message from the Director: Summer 2019

Summertime in Ames where we’re enjoying Iowa State’s lovely campus and quiet streets – except for the road and building construction! The Women’s and Gender Studies Program has had an impressive global reach this summer. Students and WGS faculty traveled to Trieste, Italy where they explored the culture, history, and ‘artistic expressions of place’ in this vibrant … Continue reading Message from the Director: Summer 2019

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Women’s and Gender Learning Community helps students get published

If you needed yet another reason to consider joining the WGS Learning Community, consider this: many the Fall 2017 Learning Community members were officially published in the Online Biographical Dictionary of the Women Suffrage Movement in the United States! For more information about the Fall 2019 Learning Community, contact WGS Adviser Christiana Langenberg. You can … Continue reading Women’s and Gender Learning Community helps students get published

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Anna’s WGS Internship Experience at ACCESS

One of our Women’s and Gender Studies seniors, Anna (she/her/hers), spent the summer working as a sexual assault team intern at Assault Care Center Extending Shelter & Support (ACCESS), which helped her meet her WGS 491 credits. Anna worked as an advocate for victims of sexual assault and helped the organization with training development. Double … Continue reading Anna’s WGS Internship Experience at ACCESS

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Dr. Oberhauser presents on political polarity at University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Dr. Ann Oberhauser, Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Iowa State University, is spending part of her summer as the Adlerbertska Visiting Professor of Sustainable Development in the School of Business Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. On May 20, 2019, Dr. Oberhauser shared quantitative analysis on voting … Continue reading Dr. Oberhauser presents on political polarity at University of Gothenburg, Sweden

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Congratulations Spring/Summer 2019 WGS Graduates

Everyone in the WGS Program at ISU would like to heartily congratulate each of the Spring and Summer 2019 graduates–especially those who graduated with a WGS Major, Minor, or Graduate Minor! WGS Graduate Minors Carrie Chenault Sonja Lindberg Meredith Smith-Lane WGS Majors Deidra Ennis (Psychology, Women’s Studies) Roslyn Gray (Biology, Women’s Studies) Mallory Gunther (English, … Continue reading Congratulations Spring/Summer 2019 WGS Graduates