About Us
Each year, the Women's Studies and Gender Studies Program chooses a theme around which it structures its major speakers and supporting events. For the 2007-2008 academic year, we will be exploring issues related to the theme of "Women, Justice, and the Environment." Spring speakers related to this topic include Lisa Ling, and a series on Hurricane Katrina featuring Pamela Jenkins, Ph.D., Avis Jones-DeWeever, Ph.D., and a screening of a documentary about Katrina, Belly of the Basin.
Women's Studies and Gender Studies programming is not limited to this theme, however, and we are hosting as well as co-sponsoring a number of other events on campus as well this spring including Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Emilie Townes, and Emily Barr. Please consult our event calendar for more information.The staff of the Women's Studies Program includes our Director, Dr. Betsy Jones Hemenway, a professor in the History Department; our Graduate Program Director is Dr. Prudence Moylan, from the History Department; and this year our Graduate Assistant is Kim Conte, who is working on her MA in Women's Studies. We are working together to offer a wide range of classes in Women's Studies and Gender Studies for both our undergraduates and Master's level students, and to help foster discussion across campus on issues relating to gender and equality.
