The Excellence in Gender Studies Fund
A dedicated fund for gender studies students is available to you to support your travel, research, or other activities that further your research in gender studies.
The Chandler Senior Experience
You will design an independent research project with one or more of our 20+ gender studies faculty members from all across campus—from biology, anthropology, psychology, art, film, music, theatre and literature—to explore the ways gender shapes personal identities, relationships and social structure.
Recent Senior Experiences include:
- Trans Women's Lived Experiences in the Sex Work Industry
- Affecting the World: My Queer Love Letter to Difference
Gender Studies Outcomes
Because gender is a foundational aspect of our identities, it has great cultural impact and is important to many different career paths and areas of advanced study like law, social work, media, education, business, and more.
On Any Given Day...
...discover an array of opportunities that await you at Lawrence University.
Eilene Hoft-March joined the Lawrence University faculty with a student-focused teaching style and a deep love of French literature and autobiographies. Thirty-two years later, that all remains true.
Unbagging First-Year Studies
Martyn Smith, director of First-Year Studies, unbags the 10 works being used in First-Year Studies during the 2021-2022 academic year.
Focusing on an array of well-known American films — The Maltese Falcon, Red River, Dr. Strangelove, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Chinatown, Die Hard, and American Beauty among them — integrate film theory, gender theory, and American history to address the problem of how masculinity has been constructed in American culture since World War II.