This grant will support a series of events, workshops, and public performances throughout the 2025-2026 academic year to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at UNC Chapel Hill. Engaging public audiences and humanities experts … Read more

The Department of Women’s and Gender Studies (WGST) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) seeks to appoint two distinguished professors, the Kappa Kappa Gamma Distinguished Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and a Distinguished Professor of … Read more

We are excited to announce a set of community-engaged events centering Feminism and Food Justice. These events are part of a larger Mellon Foundation-funded grant entitled “Collaborative Visions: Leveraging Feminist Theory and Praxis to Address Social Justice.” September 24, 2024: … Read more

It’s that time of year again! Check out the Fall 2024 Department Newsletter! Read all about the changes in our department, what our faculty and students have been up to, and more! Read the full newsletter here!!

Prof. Ariana Vigil recently spoke to the Daily Tar Heel about how the department of Women’s and Gender Studies challenges mainstream feminism. ““Women of color — nonwhite women — have always been involved in feminist movements, even if their contributions … Read more

This past November Duke’s CMA Graduate Assistant Stanley D. Miller and Michelle Kwan of the Women’s Center at Duke sat down with Chair of the Department of Women’s & Gender Studies at UNC Chapel Hill Dr. Ariana Vigil for a … Read more

The Department of WGST, in addition to UNC’s AAAD Department, has been awarded grants through the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s new Affirming Multivocal Humanities initiative. “The department of women’s and gender studies will undertake several projects related to social justice … Read more

This marks a critical time for us as well as a moment of reflection and celebration – next year will mark the 50th Anniversary of the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies (WGST). In honor of this, we invite you … Read more