Women's & Gender Studies

Welcome to our web site! Please browse here to find out about our programs in Women's and Gender Studies, to see courses for next semester that count for the programs, to find guidelines for senior capstone projects, our awards for students, and current events.

The Women's and Gender Studies program is governed by a coordinator and an Advisory Committee of faculty across many disciplines and students representing the academic program and co-curricular programs such as VOX and PRIDE.

Mission Statement

Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies is an interdisciplinary field that examines gender and sexuality as interrelated systems of structural inequality through local and global perspectives. The GSWS Program at Geneseo centers gender minorities—including women and LGBTQ+ people—in everything it does, while also exploring the ways in which sexism, homophobia, and transphobia harm all people, including men and straight cisgender individuals. Committed to an intersectional approach to feminism, the program equips the student with tools to explore and interrogate the historical roots and contemporary reproduction of structural inequities. With real world challenges and needs in mind, our programs also encourage application of classroom learning through activist work, internships, co-curricular pursuits, and public/civic engagement.

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Recent students--Katherine Parkhurst '25 (left), Elinore Voss Dec '24 (center), and Kathleen Cole '25 (right)--after completing their Capstone Internship Presentations.