Amber Jamilla Musser will join us as Assistant Professor in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in the Fall of 2013. She will be contributing to research and helping to develop curriculum in sexuality studies in the Program. She received her PhD in History of Science at Harvard University in 2009. Prior to holding the Nancy L. Buc Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown University, she was a faculty fellow in gender and politics at NYU. Read more...
About the Program
Our courses use feminist theory and gender analysis to examine literature, culture, social structures, and political power, and to understand how assumptions and beliefs about masculinities, femininities, and sexualities shape human institutions, organizations, and activities. As one of the first in the nation, the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program at Washington University has been encouraging the critical thinking and active participation of students in their education since 1972.
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