Women's Studies
Degree: PhD
Objectives: One of the oldest women's studies doctoral programs in the country, the Emory Department of Women's Studies supports feminist teaching and scholarship concerning women and gender. It promotes comparative perspectives on women's studies through interdisciplinary research grounded in careful training in relevant traditional disciplines and research methods.
Our department faculty has expertise in areas of women's studies connected to literature, cultural studies, history, sociology, anthropology, political science, and philosophy. Associated faculty in other departments and schools include scholars in Comparative Literature, the Institute for Liberal Arts, Film Studies, Religion, Anthropology, Art History, the Graduate Division of Religion, Philosophy, Spanish and Portuguese, Psychology, the School of Law, Rollins School of Public Health, and Candler School of Theology.
In addition to rigorous interdisciplinary course work and writing, graduate students train in feminist pedagogies and receive opportunities to teach in our department.
Program Application Deadline: December 15, 2008
Faculty: 13
Students: In residence 40; average in entering class 5
Mailing Address:
Emory University
Department of Women's Studies
128 Candler Library
550 Asbury Circle
Atlanta, GA 30322
U.S.A.
Telephone: +1 404.727.0096
Fax: +1 404.727.4659
Email: womensstudies@emory.edu
