Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Engaged Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Engaged Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies takes what you鈥檙e learning in your courses and puts it into practice through internships, research, study away, winter term, career exploration, and beyond.
Here鈥檚 a sampling of recent projects, field experiences, and post-graduate destinations for gender, sexuality, and feminist studies majors.
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Research. Internships. Study Away. Experiential Learning.
Ways Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies Majors Rise
Research
- Between and Beyond the Binary: Gender Pronouns and Community Support
- Fearless Foreign Women: Exploring Tamar and Ruth as Characters within a Post-Exilic Debate on Intermarriage
- 鈥淭his is a Closed Space for Queer Identifying Folks鈥: Queer Spaces on Campus
- Gendering Genitals: Medical Discourse and Healthcare Provider Education on Intersex Conditions
- Strengthening Networks of Expertise: Midwives, Obstetricians, and Complementarity in Danish Birthing
Internships
- Center for Health and Gender Equity, Washington, DC: reproductive justice advocate
- Feminist Majority Foundation, Arlington, Va.: research intern on challenges facing women in politics
- Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship at the Cincinnati Children鈥檚 Hospital Medical Center, Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology
- Equal Access Afghanistan, San Francisco: human rights intern
- Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE), Washington, DC: policy intern on women, girls, and HIV
Study Away
- Rabat, Morocco, and Amsterdam, Netherlands: International Perspectives on Sexuality and Gender
- Chiapas, Mexico Solidarity Network: Zapatismo and the Sixth Declaration
- Sweden, DIS Abroad Stockholm: Gender, Equality, and Sexuality in Scandinavia
- Argentina, CIEE Liberal Arts, Buenos Aires: Body, Gender, and Sexuality in Argentina
- Italy, Syracuse University in Florence: Women and Gender in Renaissance Art
Experiential Learning
- Contemporary Midwifery course
- Lorain County General Health District Archives project
- Elyria YWCA Girls鈥 Circle
- Feminist Care and Wellness, private reading
- Faculty research assistant for 鈥淧rostitution Research: Understanding Debates in European Societies鈥
First Destinations of Recent Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies Majors
- Graduate Schools:
- Master of Social Work, New York University
- Yale School of Nursing Midwifery Program
- PhD in sociology and women鈥檚 studies, University of Michigan
- Mt. Sinai Medical School
- MFA in creative nonfiction, Emerson College
- MBA in sustainable business, Presidio Graduate School, Seattle
- Teacher鈥檚 College, Columbia University
- MPH, Boston University School of Public Health
- PhD in ethnic studies, UC Riverside
- Positions:
- AmeriCorps, Calif.
- National Advocates for Pregnant Women, N.Y.
- Fulbright Fellow, Tblisi, Georgia
- National Public Radio, Washington, DC
- National Institute for Reproductive Health, N.Y.
- Teach for America, Colo.
- Planned Parenthood of Michigan
- General Counsel鈥檚 Office of the New York Bar
- Peace Corps, Paraguay
- Research specialist, Corporate Accountability International
- Ohio Alliance to End Sexual Violence
- Non-fiction editor, Black Warrior Review