About Us

Welcome to Women's and Gender Studies

Women's and Gender Studies (WGS) is a minor program open to students of all majors, regardless of gender, offering an interdisciplinary exploration of the human experience that places women and gender at the center of scholarly inquiry. The WGS program highlights the intellectual, artistic, political, social, economic, and spiritual contributions of women—contributions that traditional scholarship has long overlooked or undervalued. WGS uses the lens of gender to extend this analysis to a broader range of issues, including the social and cultural meanings of masculinity and femininity. WGS also explores the way that race, class, nationality, religion, sexuality, and other social categories influence gender roles.

What you will learn in Women's and Gender Studies

Women’s contributions to history, culture, and politics
The difference between sex and gender
The social construction of gender
The variations in women’s and men’s experiences across nations, cultures, religions, social classes, and race
Gendered constructions of knowledge and social institutions

Women's and Gender Studies Faculty

As an interdisciplinary program, Women's & Gender Studies brings together faculty from across the campus representing no less than fifteen different disciplines. These scholars teach, research and/or service the University in areas related to Women's & Gender Studies.

Affiliated Faculty

Emmanuella Amoh, History
Daniel Barish, History
Beth Allison Barr, History
Gia Chevis, Hankamer School of Business
Emilie Cunningham, Medical Humanities
Jane Damron, Communication
Meghan DiLuzio, Classics
Ericka S. Dunbar, Religion
Elise Edwards, Religion
Elizabeth Flowers, Religion
Jaesook Gho, Family & Consumer Sciences, Human Sciences & Design
Leslie Hahner, Communication
Jennifer Hargrave, English
Lynne Hinojosa, Honors Program
Karis Jones, School of Education
Steven Jug, BIC, History, and MLC
*Theresa Kennedy, MLC, Director of Women's and Gender Studies
Jeff Nagel, Communication
Dawn LaValle Norman, Classics
Karenna Malavanti, Psychology & Neuroscience
Saralyn McKinnon-Crawley, School of Education
Mandy McMichael, Religion
Gabrielle Miller, Modern Languages & Cultures
Mia Moody, American Studies
Kristen Pond, English
Anne-Marie Schultz, Philosophy, Baylor Interdisciplinary Core
Cynthia Shafer-Elliott, Religion
Lisa Shaver, English
Lauren Short, Professional Writing and Rhetoric
Anne Spence, Mechanical Engineering
Andrea Turpin, History
Sarah Walden, Baylor Interdisciplinary Core
David Whitford, History
Lenore Wright, Philosophy, BIC, Director of Academy for Teaching and Learning

Graduate Teaching Fellows

Reilly Fitzpatrick Vines, English
Brooke LeFevre, History