Welcome

GWS at University of Illinois is a vibrant interdisciplinary academic department that coordinates a wide range of research, teaching and public service activities emphasizing intersectional approaches to the study of gender, race, class, ethnicity, and sexuality in national and transnational contexts.

Forging an array of approaches drawing on social sciences, humanities, sciences, education, design and engineering, architecture, and law, to name a few, our various programs aim to enable our undergraduate and graduate students to have a better understanding of gender as an intrinsic part of the ways we interpret and shape the competing landscapes that we inhabit.