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*Winners of the Glennie L. Jones Memorial Award*
This year three students are sharing the undergraduate award: Elisha Adey, a junior with a double major in women's studies and sociology; Sumathi Narayana, graduating with a major in comparative literature and a minor in women's studies; Lauren Mahoney, a double major in comparative literatire and women's studies. Our graduate award goes to Graciela Monteagudo, a Ph.D. student in Anthropology who has completed the Graduate Certificate in Advanced Feminist Studies. For more information and to read more about our winners, see the full newspage.\

More congratulations are in order for Lauren Mahoney, women's studies graduate and one of 13 winners of the 21st Century Leader Award given out during the Commencement ceremony. Link to one of her hometown sites!

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Sarah Richardson, one of our new Assistant Professors starting this fall is published. Read the review (PDF) here.

As everyone knows, the economy is struggling, and state government and the University are proposing cutbacks and reorganizations.  Women’s studies is in the thick of the campus discussions around these issues.  Due to these pending changes, we plan to publish our newsletter later this year.

Our Mission
Women’s Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, one of the oldest programs in the country, is at the cutting edge of contemporary feminist work. We approach the study of women with an integrative analysis – in which gender is multifaceted, diverse, and embedded in a matrix of power relations including race, class, sexuality, and nationality.  {for the complete text of our mission statement, click here}
Women's Studies offers an undergraduate major, minor, and a graduate certificate.  Majors have focused their studies on the law, women’s health, the arts, the environment, political activism, the media and more.  Undergraduate minors come from a wide variety of departments ranging from history and English to journalism and biology.  Graduate students from different disciplines broaden and deepen their scholarship through our Certificate Program in Advanced Feminist Studies. 

The faculty in the program are noted scholars in the field of women’s studies and in disciplines such as biology, sociology, history, education, anthropology.  Their research areas include:  Asian American women and work; Transnational Feminist Activism; Caribbean Women; Whiteness Studies; Food Studies, Science and Technology; Race, Gender and Science; Black Feminist Theory, U.S. Women’s History, Women and U.S. Radicalism; African American Women’s History; Genetics; Feminist Theory; Philosophy of Science; Sex Work; The South Asian Diaspora, and much more.

Women's Studies is a program of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts at UMass Amherst. Click for site policies.

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Last update: June 10, 2009

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