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Featured Publications
Ghosts Of Slavery: A Literary Archaeology of Black Women's Lives
Jenny Sharpe
"Between Action and Abstraction" featured in Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A.
Joshua Guzmán
News
UCLA Gymnast and Gender Studies Student Katelyn Ohashi Gives Rousing Speech About Body Shaming at 2019 ESPY Awards
July 11, 2019
In January, UCLA gymnast Katelyn Ohashi earned a perfect 10 at a collegiate competition for her...
Gender Studies Graduate Student Min Joo Lee Receives Charles E. & Sue K. Young Graduate Student Fellowship Award
April 19, 2019
 Charles E. and Sue K. Young Graduate Student Fellowship - Each year the College celebrates...
American Ethnological Society Interviews Professor Purnima Mankekar: The 25th Anniversary of “National Texts and Gendered Lives”
March 22, 2019
Sahana Udupa, professor of anthropology at Ludwig Maximilians-Universität München interviews...
UCLA gymnast Katelyn Ohashi scores another perfect 10 floor routine
March 11, 2019
The beloved and smiley UCLA gymnast Katelyn Ohashi is back at it again! The 21-year-old UCLA...
Undergraduate Spotlight
Gender Studies students Present at UCLA Undergraduate Research Week
May 17, 2019

On May 20-24, Gender Studies students: Breanna Aguilar, Erin Min, Azisa Todd, and Samar Saif will present their research during UCLA’s Undergraduate Research Week.

Gender Studies students Produce Media Productions
May 17, 2019

We are in the midst of a Digital Revolution that many scholars find comparable in scope to the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries, which transformed the Western world.

Gender Studies students publish stories on On the Move: an undergraduate journal of creative geographies
March 1, 2019
What do travel stories have to do with power? Lived experiences of race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexuality, nation, and religion inform narratives of mobility, inequality, difference. On the Move, an online publication of writings by undergraduate students, grapples with questions of travel, migration, and movements of all kinds.

Message from the Chair

Welcome to the UCLA Department of Gender Studies.  Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary field that focuses on the complex interaction of gender with other identity markers such as race, ethnicity, sexuality, nation, and religion. 

Our department has grown significantly since 1975, when Women’s Studies first gained formal status as an academic program at UCLA. In 1987, the Women’s Studies Program was granted interdepartmental degree program status and began offering a major and minor. A Ph.D. degree, among the first in the country, was added in 2000. In January 2008, after functioning successfully for two decades as a program, we became a department. Today, the Gender Studies Department has 17 core and 19 joint faculty and is home to approximately 250 undergraduate majors, 50 minors, and 32 Ph.D. students. 


Having launched an updated undergraduate major in 2011, we implemented a revised graduate core sequence in 2014 designed to train the next generation of Gender Studies scholars.  The graduate courses include "Introduction to Interdisciplinary Methods in Gender Studies," "Key Theories and Concepts in Gender Studies," "Epistemologies of Gender," and "Research Design and Professional Development."  Rather than being gender additive, these courses teach interdisciplinary methods, relate debates in the field to key intellectual and social movements, explore intersections of feminist studies, masculinity studies, and queer studies, and assist students with professional development. 

If you would like to learn more about Gender Studies at UCLA, please explore this website, feel free to join us at one of our upcoming events, email us at info@gender.ucla.edu, or call 310-206-8101 for more information.

Elizabeth Marchant, Chair, Department of Gender Studies