Center for Women’s and Gender Studies

Contact

405 W. 25th Street
Austin, TX 78705
Ph. (512) 471-5765
Fx. (512) 475-8146
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/cwgs/
pheisler@mail.utexas.edu

The mission of the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (CWGS) is to promote learning and research about women, gender and society. We create intellectual and public communities committed to exploring women’s experiences and addressing the challenges faced by women, men, and families within Texas, the nation, and around the globe.

Understanding the barriers to women’s success and creating programs that promote women’s leadership requires good gender studies research and the presence of strong role models within universities. The Center for Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin is dedicated to closing the leadership gap through a variety of initiatives.

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Principal Staff

Susan Sage Heinzelman, Director
Ph. (512) 471-5765

Patricia J. Heisler, Senior Admin. Associate
Ph. (512) 471-5160
E-mail: pheisler@mail.utexas.edu

Nancy K. Ewert, Program Coordinator
Ph. (512) 471-5680
E-mail: newert@mail.utexas.edu

Alma J. Salcedo, Academic Affairs, Graduate Coordinator
Ph. (512) 475-7858
E-mail: ajsalcedo@mail.utexas.edu

Lindsey Schell, English Literature, Women's and Gender Studies, and Youth Collection Bibliographer
E-mail: schell@mail.utexas.edu

Ganiva Reyes, Texas Undergraduate Leadership Program (TULIP) Coordinator
E-mail: mestiza88@gmail.com

Stephanie Rosen, LGBTQ/Sexualities Research Cluster, GA
E-mail: ssrosen@mail.utexas.edu

Areas of Expertise:

Access & Disparities, Advancing Women's Leadership, Barriers & Challenges to Advancement, Awareness & Education, Barriers & Opportunities, Diversity & Inclusion, Disparities, Family & Society, Women's, Gender & Feminist Studies

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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 (Wednesdays 4:30 to 6:00pm in GAR 2.116), 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 2009-10 academic year, the topic for the New Faculty Colloquium is Performing Gender. 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.

http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/cwgs/programs.php