WGST News

The Women and Gender Studies Creative Activism award recognizes outstanding undergraduate creative works that raise awareness around issues of equity, such as race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender identity. It is designed to help foster an inclusive and welcoming campus climate for students of all backgrounds and those historically underrepresented at...

WGST 2022 Graduates - Bachelor of Arts Earlier this month, we honored the graduating class of 2022, including students completing a Bachelor of Arts degree, a minor, or a graduate certificate in women and gender studies . We also recognized the incredible work of our department’s scholarship and award recipients...

Mehta's "Protestants and the pill: How US Christians helped make birth control mainstream" in Salon

News from the CU Boulder College of Arts & Sciences Magazine

The American Music Research Ce nter and the Department of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder are hosting a Disco Dance Party and conversation with DJ Luis Mario Orellana Rizzo at Club 156 (in The Connection in the UMC) on 22 April 2022. For Dr. Kristie...

The WGST faculty are pleased to welcome Dr. A. Marie Ranjbar as our newest assistant professor! Ranjbar's work integrates feminist political geography with scholarship on critical human rights, environmental justice, and decolonial and postcolonial feminist theory. She received her doctorate from Penn State University in the fields of Geography and...

We are pleased to share that Dania Arayssi, doctoral student in the Department of Political Science and member of our WGST Graduate Certificate Program, has been awarded the 2022 Figueroa Family Fellowship. This scholarship is administered by CU's Graduate School, and was given to Arayssi "in recognition of her commitment...

We’ve been through some big transitions since you heard from us last! Catch up with the latest news from the Department of Women and Gender Studies in our latest issue of Bolder Voices newsletter.

Dr. Cassy Gonzalez (WGST '13) completed her dissertation with distinction in Ethnic Studies and is now an assistant professor in criminal justice at Sam Houston State University.