The Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department examines the categories of women, gender, and sexuality as they intersect with race, class, ethnicities, belief systems, and nationalities. We offer an interdisciplinary framework through which to explore the social construction of gender and sexuality and the material impact of these constructions. We offer historical, contemporary, and transnational analyses of how the formations of gender and sexualities emerge within different contexts such as colonialisms, imperialisms, nationalisms, and globalization. From our engagement with, and critique of, disciplinary practices in the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences, we forge new critical paradigms and methods for generating feminist knowledges. Our creation of new critical paradigms relies on the linking of knowledge formation to activism and social justice movements. Our courses satisfy campus breadth requirements, develop critical analysis and writing skills, and transform students’ understanding of and engagement with the world around them.
A student who majors in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies will gain a strong liberal arts training in critical theory and social justice. They can apply these skills to a range of professions. Graduates may pursue advanced degrees in the arts, humanities, social sciences, law, or medicine; or pursue work in the private sector, social services, advocacy programs, or the NPO sector. The Department of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (FGSS) at Scripps participates in the Intercollegiate Feminist Center for Teaching, Research and Engagement at The Claremont Colleges.
Faculty List
Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Professor of Chicanx-Latinx Studies
Phone: 73543
Associate Professor of Spanish, Latin American, and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures
Associate Professor of Spanish, Latin American, and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures
Lecturer for Philosophy; Chair, Intercollegiate Feminist Center
Phone: 78018
Hartley Burr Alexander Chair in the Humanities
Professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Dorothy Cruickshank Backstrand Chair of Gender and Women's Studies; Chair, Appointments, Promotions, and Tenure Committee
Phone: 70840
Associate Professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Chair, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Associate Professor of English
Phone: 78137
Professor of Anthropology; Laura Vausbinder Hockett Endowed Chair, Chair of Anthropology and Middle East and North African Studies
Phone: 73547
Professor of Writing; Chair, Department of Writing and Rhetoric; Adviser in the Environmental Analysis Non-Science Tracks; Director of the Writing Program; Scripps College Academy Faculty Liaison
Phone: 78372
Professor of History; Chair, Department of Latin American & Caribbean Studies; Chair, Department of History
Phone: 72807
Associate Professor of Politics
Phone: 73380
Professor of Art; Fletcher Jones Chair in Art
Phone: 74436
Associate Professor of Chicanx-Latinx Studies
Phone: 73548
Professor of Psychology
Phone: 70913
Professor of Music; Adviser in the Environmental Analysis Non-Science Track
Phone: 71880
Associate Dean of Faculty for Racial Equity; Professor of Chemistry; Chair, Department of Art Conservation
Phone: 71504
Associate Professor of Music; Chair, Department of Music
Phone: 70882
Associate Professor of Music
Phone: 78760
Professor of Art History; Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Chair in the History of Architecture and Art; Chair, Department of Art History
Phone: 78997
Associate Professor of French
Phone: 78093
Professor of Art; Mary W. Johnson Professorship in Teaching;
Phone: 73628
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Professor of Politics
Phone: 73549
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Phone: 77586
Professor of Spanish, Latin American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures; Richard Armour Chair in Modern Languages
Professor of French; Margaret McKenzie Distinguished Professorship in Modern Foreign Languages
Phone: 74260
Associate Professor of Spanish, Latin American, and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures; Chair, Department of Spanish, Latin American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures
Phone: 79010
Associate Professor of Africana Studies
Phone: 77979
Associate Professor of Politics
Professor of Philosophy; Mary W. and J. Stanley Johnson Chair in the Humanities; Chair, Department of Philosophy; Vice Chair, Faculty Executive Committee
Phone: 71819
Associate Professor of Dance; Chair, Department of Dance; Vice Chair, Appointment Promotions and Tenure Committee
Phone: 74587
Associate Professor of Media Studies; Chair, Department of Media Studies
Phone: 74218
