Graduate Minor in Women's and Gender Studies
www.unc.edu/depts/wmst/gradminor.html
SILVIA TOMÁŠKOVÁ, Chair
Professors
Silvia Tomášková, Gender and Science, Archaeology, Prehistoric Art
Associate Professors
Michele T. Berger, Women and HIV/AIDS, Gender and Political Participation, Feminist
Methods, and Multiracial Feminisms
Karen Booth, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Imperialism, Postcolonialism and Globalization,
Feminist Policy Studies
Emily Burrill, Gender and Legal History, Colonial and Postcolonial Africa
Tanya L. Shields, 20th-Century Caribbean Literature, Caribbean Diaspora Studies, Cultural
Citizenship, and Social Justice Discourses
Assistant Professors
Ariana D. Vigil, Contemporary U.S. Latina/o Literatures and Cultures; Transnational Latina/o –
Latin American Studies; Queer and Feminist Literature; African American Literature.
Susan Page, Feminist Media Art, Photography, Altered Textiles, Video Installations
Adjunct Professor
Annegret Fauser (Department of Music)
Christi Hurt (Carolina Women's Center)
Rachel Seidman, Southern Oral History Program
Applications
Contact the Chair of Women's and Gender Studies.
Requirements for the Minor
Women's and Gender Studies offers a graduate minor which requires students to take 15 credit
hours in cross-listed courses at the 700 to 899 level. (The Chair will consider substitution of
400–699 level courses where appropriate.) Courses must be distributed as follows:
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Nine credit hours in crosslisted courses in two different disciplines outside the student's
major. These courses may include theory courses beyond the three-credit requirement.
Three credit hours in feminist theory; this course may be taken in any department,
including the student's major department.
Three credit hours in a Women's and Gender studies seminar for graduate minors
(WMST 790).
Graduate students minoring in Women's and Gender studies must include on their
doctoral committee a faculty member who teaches women's studies courses.
Courses for Graduate and Advanced Undergraduate Students