Our faculty are an accomplished and interdisciplinary group of instructors who examine power, privilege, and oppression. WGST faculty members explore dynamics related but not limited to gender, sexuality, race, class, age, ability, body size, and religion in historical, social, and cultural contexts.
If you are a University of South Carolina faculty member whose research and teaching intersect with Women's and Gender Studies, please fill out our online application form [doc]. Learn more about the Women's and Gender Studies Department's current affiliates on our Affiliate Faculty page.
Explore our faculty directory for the full list of program instructors.
Want to learn more about the research profiles of WGST's faculty? Review our research profile document here.
Research areas: Gender and sexuality, feminist rhetoric, religious communication, transgender studies
Research areas: Global women's health, gender and health, reproductive health, health equity
Research areas: Gender representation in media and pop culture, contemporary feminist social movements
Research areas: Black women’s cultural production and political traditions in the twentieth and twentieth-first centuries, Black feminist theory, womanist theory and theology
Research areas: health, gender, and culture in Europe and the United States, with a particular focus on reproduction, pregnancy, and childbirth
Research areas: Sexuality studies & Irish studies, Irish masculinities, gay rugby, Irish literature, poetry
Research areas: Gender and sexuality studies, feminist studies of health and medicine, reproductive justice, LGBTQ health, qualitative methods
Research areas: Feminist philosophy, philosophy of medicine, medical ethics
Research Areas: abolition, stigma, sexualized violence, social perception, social determinants of health
Research areas: relationship between culture and the construction of racial and ethnic identities
Research areas: Interpersonal and dating violence, sexual violence, drugging
Research areas: Civic responsibility, service-learning, Archiving South Carolina Women Collection
Research areas: gender and politics, inclusion and representation, political, feminist, and democratic theory, social movements, the gender politics of the US South
Research areas: health communication, gender, culture, spirituality, and womanist approaches to ethics and social justice.
Research areas: intersectionality, critical literacy, multicultural education, the history of white supremacy in education in the south
Research areas: Economic anthropology, digital finance, gender, feminism, labor, peace & conflict studies, South-Asia
Responsible for business manager duties, coordination of course scheduling, managing
administrative assistant and management for undergraduate and graduate programs (including
GA hiring).
Responsible for HR; WGST programming and events; website and social media, newsletters and promotional materials, work-study student management, Close-Hipp office suite management.
I am a Junior studying Studio Arts with a concentration in Graphic Design with a minor in Women's and Gender Studies and Art History. I have always been passionate about women's activism and wanted to get more involved after taking my first class in the department last year. Going out and volunteering with organizations such as Planned Parenthood changed my perspective deeply and I am so glad to have this opportunity to stay involved with the department this year. My favorite part of working in this department is the people who work in it. I get to meet and work with inspiring and passionate people and have learned so much.
I am a senior majoring in Women's and Gender Studies with a minor in Japanese Studies. I am excited to continue my second year as a student assistant in the Women's and Gender Studies department. My freshman year, I took Dr. Water's WGST 112 class and became interested in Women's and Gender Studies. Taking her lesson introduced me to problems such as racism, gender, and sexuality, which are frequently disregarded in an unjust way. By the end of her course, I was cleared of obliviousness, declared a major, and have been learning more and more ever since.
I am a Junior majoring in English with a concentration in Professional Writing and a minor in Mass Communications. I am incredibly excited to be joining the department and look forward to helping out in any way I can, particularly because I have always been passionate about women’s rights and reproductive justice. Ever since I was 14 and saw how the world worked, I knew I wanted to affect change any way I knew how. Coming to USC was enlightening. I met people, found resources, and started volunteering at Planned Parenthood and for local political campaigns; all of which allowed me to become a part of a network of people who wanted to not just see the change but make it happen. As for WGST, my journey with the department started when I took Women’s Health 113 with Dr. Swan. The class was eye-opening, I learned more about female anatomy and the treatment of women globally than I ever had before. After the class was over, all I wanted to do was learn more. I hope to continue my journey and with WGST in my senior year and learn as much as I can from my peers and professors alike!
