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Celebrate 50+ Years of GWS!

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About GWS
The Gender and Women’s Studies (GWS) Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago is a vibrant interdisciplinary department made up of scholars who study a wide range of topics critical to an expansive understanding of how and why gender and sexuality matter in the world.
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Academic Programs
The Gender and Women's Studies Program offers a Major and Minor in Gender and Women's Studies as well as a Minor in Social Justice. GWS also offers a Graduate Concentration Certificate.
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Meet GWS!
Learn more about our amazing faculty and students here.
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Events
Learn more about Gender and Women’s Studies events!

The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.

Ida B. Wells Barnett

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Dr. Nadine Naber quoted on WBEZ Article "More Palestinians live in Cook County than any other county in the nation"
Monday, November 20, 2023
“To discuss the history of Palestinian migration or displacement to the United States requires discussing the history of Israel. Otherwise, we are leaving out the root cause behind why there’s such a large…
Jodi Aguilar, GWS grad concentrator, published "La Ofrenda Lesbiana: Elementos de mi Corazón" in The Journal of Lesbian Studies
Wednesday, August 30, 2023
“The following contribution celebrates, honors, and reflects on the bodies of work that create spaces of cariño in Carla Trujillo’s Citation1991 anthology, Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About. This piece is two-fold:it…
On Contesting and Dismantling the Forever War: An Interview with Ronak K. Kapadia
Wednesday, August 30, 2023
Ronak K. Kapadia is a queer cultural theorist of race, war, and empire. His research on the world-making potential of contemporary Arab, Muslim, and South Asian diasporic artists in response to the “Global…