The Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women, and Sexuality, hosted by MIT, brings together feminist scholars and teachers from nine Boston area institutions for the purpose of advancing interdisciplinary, intersectional feminist scholarship and teaching in the areas of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. The consortium is committed to cultivating collaborative intellectual communities across fields and disciplines, creating professional development opportunities for graduate students and faculty, and providing a sustainable model of institional collaboration. The Program Manager oversees and manages all operational matters for the Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women, and Sexuality.
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The Administrative Assistant will be expected to work independently and take initiative to support the mission of the GCWS as it is realized through communications, events, student and faculty support, community building, and social media activities. The Administrative Assistant will receive direct oversight from the Program Manager. They will be trusted as a team member who has valuable ideas to contribute to building our program and representing it to those within and outside of the community. As such, the ideal candidate will have a social justice oriented background or area of interest and some knowledge of issues related to the academic discipline of WGSS.
Read MoreThe Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women, and Sexuality (GCWS) is seeking a faculty member for our full year Workshop for Dissertation Writers in Women’s and Gender Studies. This course meets every other week over the course of the academic year and is worth the equivalent of one graduate course. Tenure, tenure-track, and lecturers at our member institutions are welcome to teach with the GCWS.
This graduate-level course will provider dissertators in interdisciplinary women’s and gender studies a collaborative environment to pursue their writing goals. Instructor responsibilities include helping students to understand methodological and theoretical issues related to interdisciplinary feminist research and to apply those concerns in their own dissertations; providing feedback to student works-in-progress; and helping facilitate peer review of each other’s work.
Read MoreThe Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women, and Sexuality (GCWS) is seeking faculty to teach one section of Feminist Inquiry in Fall 2020 or Spring 2021. The only consortium of its kind in the nation, our thriving community of feminist faculty and graduate students recently celebrated its 25th anniversary. Tenure, tenure-track, and lecturers are welcome to teach with the GCWS.
This graduate-level course is an interdisciplinary exploration of ways of feminist thinking, knowing, listening, and speaking in the interest of producing scholarship that instigates change. Given the range of feminist methods and frameworks, this is not a survey course. Rather, the instructors will organize the course around themes of enduring and contemporary significance for feminist scholarship.
Read MoreThe Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women, and Sexuality (GCWS) is seeking faculty to teach one section of an elective course, to be offered in Fall 2020 or Spring 2021. The only consortium of its kind in the nation, our thriving community of feminist faculty and graduate students recently celebrated its 25th anniversary. Tenure, tenure-track, and lecturers are welcome to teach with the GCWS.
Each academic year, GCWS offers three distinct elective courses on important and cutting-edge topics. The topics routinely change and these courses normally provide an opportunity for instructors to teach a subject that may not be possible at their home institution. Courses, regardless of topic, integrate a gender analysis along with issues of class, race, culture, ethnicity, and sexualities and consider the practical implications of feminist theory.
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