Department of Women's and Gender Studies - College of Arts and Science

Are you curious about why gender matters? Do you see gender in your daily lives and wonder why it is organized the way it is?

Do you want guidance and mentoring as you develop your academic skills? Do you want an atmosphere that caters to your needs and interests? And that gets you into the "real world?"

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Congratulations to WGST Faculty

Assistant Professor Rebecca Dingo's Networking Arguments published

Rebecca Dingo's new book Networking Arguments: Rhetoric, Transnational Feminism, and Public Policy Writing was published in 2012 by the University of Pittsburgh Press.

"A highly readable, astute, and thorough intervention into rhetorical studies. Rebecca Dingo's transnational feminist rhetorical analysis is a must-read for scholars and students who take the relationship between language and power seriously. Her text intervenes in those operations by demonstrating the complexities of how gendered rhetorics circulate within neoliberal globalization."
—Rachel Riedner, George Washington University

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Assistant Professor Zakiya Adair awarded Schomburg Fellowship

Zakiya Adair was awarded a Schomburg Scholars in Residence Research Fellowship at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, New York.
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Assistant Professor Treva Lindsey awarded MU Arts & Humanities Grant Writing Fellowship

Treva Lindsey was awarded the MU Arts & Humanities Grant Writing Fellowship and will serve as the University's Fall Faculty Fellow. Lindsey was the keynote speaker for Women's History Month at St. Louis Community College.

Professor Tola Pearce publishes book chapter; travels to Sweden

Tola Pearce's chapter, "What Lies Beneath: Foundations of the U.S Human Rights Perspective and the Significance for Women" was published in Human Rights in Our Own Backyard: Injustice and Resistance in the United States, edited by Armaline, Glasberg and Purkayastha. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.

Dr. Pearce was invited to present at the European African Studies Association Meetings in Uppsala, Sweden, 15-18th June 2011. Her presentation was entitled "Negotiating Sexuality in the Shadow of Neo-liberal Globalization: Perspectives Within the Charismatic Churches in Southwestern Nigeria."

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