CWGS Programs

CWGS Programs

• Academic Programs
  Information on undergraduate and graduate degree programs.
  
  
• Faculty Development Program
  The CWGS Faculty Development Program is designed to assist in the recruitment, retention and promotion of new faculty members by providing them with support of various kinds. The point of this program is to welcome, inform, and support our new colleagues. The program also promotes the development of interdisciplinary research by introducing new faculty members to like-minded scholars from other disciplines. To become a faculty fellow, new faculty members must be nominated by their chair or dean to participate in this program. A call for nominations is issued each spring and faculty fellows are selected in June for the following academic year. Faculty fellows receive a research stipend that may be used for travel to professional meetings and general research support. Faculty fellows will present in the New Faculty Colloquium, where they will meet other junior and senior faculty who work in their area, and where they will have the opportunity to develop mentoring relationships with faculty members outside their home departments. Finally, faculty fellows are also invited to participate in faculty development workshops on teaching, obtaining grants and fellowships, and the promotion process.
  
  
• New Faculty Colloquium
  Every two weeks throughout the year (normally on Friday at noon), faculty fellows from the CWGS Faculty Development Program make presentations in the New Faculty Colloquium. For purposes of building intellectual community, the colloquium each year will emphasize a particular topic. For the 2005-6 academic year, the topic for the New Faculty Colloquium is Gender and Health. Most of the scholars presenting in this series do research in this area. The colloquium is open to all members of the UT community. For more information on the presentations in this series, please check the events page.
  
  
• Interdisciplinary Faculty Research Clusters
  CWGS has created a series of research clusters in specific subject areas:  LGBTQ/Sexualities, Gender and Health, and Gender and Technology. Through these clusters and the work of  various other schools, colleges, and research centers, we promote faculty research collaboration and interaction with undergraduates and graduates.  Bringing together scholars trained in different methodologies and disciplinary traditions around a common theme, interdisciplinary research promises new opportunities for innovation and insight.


• Reflections
  Reflections is a newly-inaugurated CWGS series where we discuss and celebrate a recently-published gender studies book or peer-reviewed article by a CWGS faculty affiliate. We are scheduling these author-meets-reader discussions in late October, late January, and mid April (locations TBA) and are eager to receive suggestions for texts we might spotlight.
  
  If you are a Faculty Affiliate of the Center for Women's and Gender Studies and are interested in participating, please send your suggestions to Susan Sage Heinzelman by August 31st (self-nominations are welcome). For books we welcome anything published between 2003 - 2005; for articles, we would welcome anything published January 2004 or later.
  
  
• Conferences
  
  Gender and Labor: What's Working?
  October 19-20, 2006
  These are challenging times for working women, the labor movement, and women's advocacy groups. This conference will provide a critical examination of labor governance (broadly conceived) in the US and its impact on women. There are also innovative and interesting alternatives being considered and tried. We want to highlight some of these alternatives. Participants in the conference include leading scholars of gender and law, and public advocates who work on behalf of working women in the US.
  
  Diversity, Politics and Religion in American Public Life
  Spring 2007
  Over the course of the spring semester, CWGS is joining with Religious Studies and the LBJ Library in offering a series of public lectures on diversity and religion in American public life. The purpose of this series is to get beyond the usual stereotypes about Christian Conservatives and Islamic fundamentalists in exploring the myriad ways that religion influences public dialogue and civic life for diverse groups in the United States. We will explore the roles of religious women, Muslims, African Americans, and immigrants in American public life. The speakers in this series will include both leading public intellectuals and scholars of religion in the US.