Graduate Studies

Women's Studies at Washington State University is presently an undergraduate program. But Women's Studies faculty are very involved in graduate training, primarily through American Studies. All Women's Studies core faculty are presently Graduate Faculty in American Studies. Recently, we engaged in an extensive revision of the American Studies Ph.D. and M.A, which placed women's studies and ethnic studies scholarship at the heart of the program. Women's Studies faculty teach graduate course in American Studies, and work extensively with American Studies graduate students. There are a limited number of Teaching Assistantships in Women's Studies for American Studies students. Please visit the American Studies website.

We also work with graduate students in other programs who are seeking guidance in feminist scholarship. Women's Studies faculty supervise directed readings and independent studies with students in graduate programs in Sociology, History, Political Science, Interdisciplinary Degree, Teaching and Learning, Anthropology, English, and others. Women's Studies faculty work with the following gender concentrations in graduate study: the Women's History concentration in History, the Gender concentration in Sociology, and the Gender and Justice concentration in Political Science. Graduate students often take our courses for 400-level graduate credit, especially Women's Studies 481: Theoretical Issues in Women's Studies, Women's Studies 485: Theoretical Issues in Lesbian and Gay Studies and Women's Studies 460: Gender, Race and Nature in American Culture.

Women's Studies strongly encourages our majors to consider graduate school and other professional training. Our alums have been accepted into a number of Ph.D., and M.A. programs as well as law school and medical school. Women's Studies offers a workshop for Women's Studies majors interested in pursuing graduate studies. If you are a Women's Studies major or minor and would like to know when the workshop will be repeated, Women's Studies will send notifications over our announcement email list. If you are not on this list and would like to be, please send a message to Linda Chesser. The graduate studies workshop can be accessed here.

Besides the individual research Women's Studies faculty accomplish (see Core Faculty), Women's Studies helps support a faculty/graduate student research group called Gendering Research Across the Campuses (GRACe). GRACe hosts luncheon colloquia, supports research, writing, and teaching groups, and puts on a gender research conference semiannually. For more on GRACe, see libarts.wsu.edu/grace/.

Angela Snyder, Jennifer Gray & Meggin McPhee all W St majors and graduates of the class of 2000.