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Baylor BU Women's and Gender Studies About Us

About Us

Welcome to Women's and Gender Studies

Women's and Gender Studies (WGS) are the interdisciplinary studies of the human experience that places women and gender at the center of scholarly inquiry. The WGS program emphasizes the intellectual, artistic, political, social, economic, and spiritual contributions of women, which traditional scholarship long overlooked or denigrated. WGS uses the lens of gender to extend this analysis to a broader range of issues, including the social and cultural meanings of masculinity, femininity, and identity construction. 

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 

Daniel Barish, History
Beth Allison Barr, History
Natalie Carnes, Religion
Jane Damron, Communication
Meghan DiLuzio, Classics
Ericka S. Dunbar, Religion
Elizabeth Flowers, Religion
Jaesook Gho, Family & Consumer Sciences, Human Sciences & Design
Leslie Hahner, Communication
Lynne Hinojosa, Honors Program
Steven Jug, BIC, History, and MLC
*Theresa Kennedy, MLC, Director of Women's and Gender Studies
Katie Larson, Art History
Gabrielle Miller, Modern Languages & Cultures
Kristen Pond, English
Anne-Marie Schultz, Philosophy, Baylor Interdisciplinary Core
Cynthia Shafer-Elliott, Religion
Lisa Shaver, English
Andrea Turpin, History
Sarah Walden, Baylor Interdisciplinary Core
Lenore Wright, Philosophy, BIC, Director of Academy for Teaching and Learning
 

Women's and Gender Studies

Dr. Theresa Varney Kennedy, Director of Women's and Gender Studies
Professor of French

theresa_kennedy@baylor.edu
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