This spring, the Women's and Gender Studies Program, in collaboration with other Dartmouth departments, brought several important figures in LGBT Studies to campus for the Sexualities Lecture Series. All lecturers conducted a faculty/student development seminar at lunchtime, as well as a public talk at 4:15 PM in Haldeman 041 on the day of their visit. Recap and videos; More on the Sexualities Series.
Dartmouth grad Christina Stoltz '06 is featured by Forbes for her for-profit-nonprofit hybrid enterprise that focuses on advocacy and trauma recovery of survivors of gender-based violence. Read more: http://www.forbes.com/sites/greggfairbrothers/2012/05/14/who-is-the-entrepreneur-christina-stoltz-on-for-profit-vs-nonprofit/
Professor Michael Bronski's recently published book A Queer History of the United States was honored with the Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award by the American Library Association. Late last year, Professor Bronski was named to the 2011 Out100, an annual list of artists, activists, and other important figures the magazine finds most inspiring. Click Here to see his slide (with authors Rahul Mehta and Justin Spring), and then browse the other luminaries in the year list.
Changing Dartmouth, One Woman at a Time. In the spirit of this year's upcoming 40th Anniversary of Coeducation at Dartmouth, a group of upperclass women and recent graduates are seeking support for the formation of a Dartmouth female alumnae network. See the open letter at http://40yearsandwherearewenow.tumblr.com.
Congratulations to Nina Maja Bergmar and Elizabeth Wiet, who share the 2011 "Excellence in Women's and Gender Studies" prize for their senior honors theses. Nina Maja's thesis, "Using Voices for Change: A Survivor-Centered Approach to Combating Sex Trafficking" was based on time spent with Somaly Mam's anti-trafficking organization Agir pour les Femmes en Situation Precaire Cambodia (AFESIP). Elizabeth's thesis, "'Living, Deathless Hart:' Intertextuality as Queer Community in the Work of Tennessee Williams," also won the English Department's Edwin R. Perkins Prize for Literature. This fall, Nina Maja in headed to Vanderbilt Law, while Elizabeth starts her Ph.D. in English at Yale University.
The Women's and Gender Studies Program gives students a theoretical base for a systematic analysis of the construction of gender and the historical, economic, political, social, and cultural experiences of women. It is an interdisciplinary program drawing on resources from the Social Sciences, the Humanities, and the Sciences.
The Women's Studies Program at Dartmouth was established in 1978, and was the first such program in any of the previously all-male Ivy League colleges. Women's and Gender Studies may be undertaken as a program for a major, minor, modified major and a certificate. Women's and Gender Studies graduates report that the critical tools learned in the Program have helped them succeed in a wide variety of careers and further studies.
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies (LGBTS) courses examine lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender identities and politics in historical and contemporary contexts. Rather than take sex and gender as given, in or by nature, many of the LGBT courses investigate sex and gender as sites of bodily and discursive contestation. LGBT classes first appeared in the Dartmouth curriculum in the Spring of 1992. LGBTS topics courses were taught occasionally until 1996 when funding from the Carpenter Foundation supported the development of an introductory course in LGBTS. Looking for a more permanent solution, the Dean of the Faculty asked Women's and Gender Studies if the Program could become the home, at least temporarily, for LGBTS courses. Currently, classes with lgbt/queer content are available in a number of departments and programs as well as Women's and Gender Studies.
