Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

• Undergraduate Director - Carolyn Peterson | peterscl@ucmail.uc.edu

• Graduate Director - Valerie Weinstein | weinstve@ucmail.uc.edu

• Head of Department - Anima Adjepong | adjepoaa@ucmail.uc.edu

• Program Manager - Nicole Kaffenberger | kaffenne@ucmail.uc.edu

• Business Manager - Amanda Hogeland | hogelaar@ucmail.uc.edu

WGSS is the hub of queer and feminist interdisciplinarity at the University of Cincinnati. Our core faculty and impressive roster of affiliates engage an expansive range of scholarship including health, cultural studies, family, legal studies, immigration, global governance, diaspora, postcolonial, and transnational studies, all with sustained attention to how received knowledge and transformative politics around gender and sexuality and their intersections with other aspects of identity (e.g., race, ethnicity, citizen status, religion, age) shape these fields.

A degree in WGSS from UC, whether at the graduate or undergraduate level provides students with a chance to develop deep critical thinking abilities, expansive and creative approaches to research and knowledge creation, management capabilities and diverse writing skills. Importantly, they develop these skills with a transnational feminist perspective, preparing them to be agents of change in a global world.

• Spring 2025 Course Offerings