Archive: Women and Gender Studies

• Georgetown Senior Publishes Book on Intersection of Business, Law and Minority Politics

  March 30, 2021

  Before graduating this spring, Irene Chun (C’21) will publish her first book Coloring Ivory that discusses minority politics, business and the law. Chun, who is an Interdisciplinary Studies major concentrating in Government and Women and Gender Studies, combined personal essays and case studies from her time as a student at Georgetown and from growing up as a multi-minority.

  Category: News Story Tags: Book, Disability Studies, Government, Research, Student, Women and Gender Studies

• Nadia Brown Appointed as New Director of Women and Gender Studies Program

  May 4, 2020

  Georgetown College is thrilled to announce that Nadia Brown, associate professor of Political Science and African American Studies at Purdue University, has been appointed as the new director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program. Her term will start in August of 2021.

  Category: News Story Tags: African American Studies, Faculty, Government, Women and Gender Studies

• Georgetown Creates New Course for Students Returning from Study Abroad that Analyzes COVID-19

  April 9, 2020

  Georgetown University was one of a few institutions to create a new academic term specifically for students who were asked to return home from their study abroads due to COVID-19. One new course being offered during this term is called COVID-19: Theory and Action in a Time of Pandemic that allows the student to study the virus comprehensively in real time.

  Category: News Story Tags: Anthropology, Biology, Business, Faculty, Global Health, Global Health Science and Security, History, Immunology, Public Policy, Students, Women and Gender Studies