The Department of Women’s, Ethnicity, and Intersectional Studies, formerly the women’s studies department, has reorganized and expanded its curriculum to reflect growing nationwide interest in gender issues and ethnicity.
“We are excited about the new name and the programmatic changes it brings in placing women, gender, and ethnicity at the center of studies, especially in their intersection with race, class, sexuality, disability, and other hierarchies of power and relations of power,” said Chinyere Okafor, professor and chair of women’s, ethnicity, and intersectional studies, said.