Welcome 

Welcome to the Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality at Rice — a wellspring for interdisciplinary inquiry and critical knowledge.

The Politics of Vulnerability: Subjects, Bodies, Communities: In the 2009-2010 academic year, the Center is pleased to host a year-long research series of lectures and seminars, in order to open new questions about the unexamined gender and sexual dynamics of vulnerability, including the vulnerable boundaries of disciplined knowledge that feminist studies continue to negotiate.  

The Center's permanent programs include:

• an undergraduate major with an emphasis on engaged research and an honors option
• a minor in Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities 
• a graduate certificate program
• a postdoctoral fellowship program, now accepting applications for the 2010-2012 cohort
  
• the journal Feminist Economics
• hosting the QStudy Listserv, an international venue for scholars of queer theory
  
• partnership in Houston ARCH (Area Rainbow Collective History).

The undergraduate curriculum provides intensive interdisciplinary course work with the Center's affiliated faculty and research-based partnerships with Houston non-profit agencies. The Poverty, Social Justice and Human Capabilities minor offers students cross-disciplinary critical perspectives and summer internship experience.

Ph.D. students from across the humanities and social sciences come to the Center's graduate certificate program to engage debates in gender, feminist, and sexuality studies.  They meet visiting scholars in small colloquia and enrich their doctoral work with teaching assistantships and dissertation support.

Stop by our offices, come to this year's events, or contact us for more information.