The Women’s and Gender Studies Fund for Excellence is a vital means for providing ongoing support for the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS).
Our small but ambitious department plays an outsized role at Stony Brook University in empowering the next generation of women leaders, LGBTQ voices and allies for gender and sexual justice and equality.
The WGSS Department prepares undergraduate students to become future professionals, scholars, activists and artists who engage critically with gender and sexuality issues in multicultural and transnational contexts. We are at the forefront of social justice initiatives on campus and offer a quarter of the classes that fulfill the new diversity general education requirement.
Our doctoral program is attracting top students who are already making a mark on the field through advanced research on a variety of important topics, including reproductive justice movements in India; political, medical, scientific and aesthetic responses to HIV/AIDS; the history, science and politics of international women’s sports; a comparative analysis of gender equality movements in Muslim societies; gender and armed conflict in South Asia; and more. With your support, we can continue recruiting and mentoring undergraduate and graduate students who go out and change the world for the better.
Your generous contribution will allow us to cultivate, sustain and further excellence in WGSS through undergraduate scholarships, graduate research stipends, travel funds for undergraduate and graduate students to present their research at conferences, and a colloquium series on mentoring and professional development for faculty and graduate students.
