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WGSS Interim Director
Linda M. Blum

Welcome to Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

We encourage you to explore our website to familiarize yourselves with our course offerings, distinguished faculty, Visiting Scholars program, internships, conferences, colloquia, and many co-sponsored events. The WGSS program also works closely with the independent, student-run Feminist Student Organization to sponsor programs for Women's History Month and other events related to women, gender and sexuality.


A Message from the Interim Director & Happy News

Dear Colleagues,

As Interim Director, I welcome you to the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) Program website. This year marks a major milestone for us – the 30th Anniversary of the program’s founding – and we proudly celebrate these past three decades of committed and engaged interdisciplinary feminist scholarship and education at Northeastern University. Please feel free to contact me directly at l.blum@neu.edu or (617) 373-4995.

Happy Summer to all,

Linda M. Blum

Happy News!

  • A new WGSS Director will be joining us Fall 2012, Professor Suzanna Walters, from Indiana University.
  • WGSS Grad RA Katrina Uhly, Sociology grad student, has been awarded a fellowship from the Council on European Studies and will be moving to Paris to begin her research.
  • WGSS Visiting Scholar Elizabeth Son (PhD Yale) has accepted a tenure-track position at Northeastern University in Theatre.
  • WGSS Visiting Scholar Jennifer Musto (PhD UCLA) has accepted a position as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow within the Humanities Research Center at Rice University. She is one of four external scholars who will participate in their inaugural seminar on "Human Trafficking".
  • We celebrate the retirement of long-time Director of WGSS and Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Sociology Debby Kaufman who will become an Emerita faculty.

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