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Women's and Gender Studies
Recent News
Petra Kuppers' Film Wins 2024 Kat Award for Together! Disability Film Festival
Professor Kuppers' film, Crip/Mad Archive Dances, won the 2024 Kat Award for Best Artists Film.
Abby Stewart Wins Kurt Lewin Award from Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
Congratulations, Professor Stewart!
Founded in 1973, the University of Michigan Women's and Gender Studies Department is an interdisciplinary academic unit within the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. The Department is a diverse intellectual community dedicated to excellence through feminist research, teaching, and activism. It seeks to build interdisciplinary collaborations among faculty and students that bridge gender, racial, ethnic, economic, and national divides; create new knowledge about women, gender, race, class, sexuality, and disability; challenge unequal distributions of power; and improve the lives of all individuals and communities.
