Isabel Gonzales
Rising Scholar Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer of Women, Gender, & Sexuality
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André Cavalcante
Associate Professor of Media Studies and WGS
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Corinne Field
Chair and Associate Professor of Women, Gender & Sexuality
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Undergraduate
Women, Gender & Sexuality (WGS) is an interdisciplinary program in which students study gender relations and sexualities.
Graduate Certificate
Open to masters and doctoral students in any department of UVA’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Courses Offered
Courses currently being offered focus on women's media, literature, and art, women in sports, queer theory, gender politics, and LGBTQ Studies.
EMPOWERING PATHWAYS
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What is Possible with a WGS Major?
- Marketing Assistant for National Museum of Women in the Arts
- Lobbyist for the ACLU
- Public Relations Associate for Girls Ink online magazine
- Development Associate for non-profit organizations
- Employee for International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children
- Screenwriter
- Employee for American Bar Association, working on CEDAW issues (Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women)
- Lawyer
- Legislative Assistant on Capitol Hill
- Analyst for Democratic polling and consulting firm
- Fundraiser for domestic violence shelter
- Communications Director for Greenpeace
- Social worker
- Director of Communications at United Way
- Staff at a battered women's shelter
- Family counselor
- Women's health coordinator
- Clinical therapist
