The Program for The Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

Welcome to the Program for Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Johns Hopkins University.  The program's goal is to advance the following aims:

• To develop an appropriate pedagogy that is interdisciplinary in orientation and to train students who can deploy the conceptual frames of disciplines in a meaningful way, in order to enhace their understanding of women, gender and sexuality;
• To encourage students to gain practical experience issues pertaining to the lives of women and of sexual minorities in all their diversity by developing and participating in field projects;
  To create a new body of interdisciplinary research that specifically address issues of gender in relation to class, ethnicity and race in everyday life, in political organization and in situations of violent conflict;
• To build supportive environments for women and sexual minorities by incorporating and disseminating their contributions through training and research, and to provide opportunities for students in low-income countries to develop expertise in these fields within agendas set in their own intellectual and social environments.
• The Associate Director of the WGS program is Aaron Goodfellow.  He is new to our program as of July 1, 2005 and is excited at the prospect of guiding and developing our students to achieve their goals in this field of study.  The staff and student liaisons of WGS are continuously available to assist as well.

Our site is updated continuously with information regarding the WGS program, lectures, fellowships, and other news and activities.