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DC Queer Studies 2025

LAG: Labor, Aesthetics, Geopolitics

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Bonnie Thornton Dill named co-PI on initiative awarded $650k grant from Mellon Foundation

Dr. Dill to join researchers from 5 institutions at the newly established Values-Enacted Institute at the University of Oregon

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Examining Data Science Through an Equity Lens

Learn more about WGSS's first collaboration with Computer Science on a cross-listed course at the intersection of digital technology, power structures, and social justice

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Welcome to the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Learn about the undergraduate program with this new video from Chair Neda Atanasoski

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The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Maryland offers comprehensive programs in undergraduate and graduate education, with a range of interdisciplinary programs and opportunities for students interested in exploring how the intersections of gender, race, sexuality, ethnicity, nationality, ability and other inequalities configure historical and contemporary struggles for social change.

Prospective Students

Interested in Our Programs?

The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies offers a B.A., undergraduate certificates and minors, a Ph.D. program and a graduate certificate.

Find out more about our degree offerings on our academic programs page. Learn about the core and affiliate faculty research on our research page.

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Current Students

Current Students

Looking for information about how to declare your major, curriculum requirements or how to apply for grants and scholarships?

Declare a major and check out curriculum requirements for any of our degrees by starting at the academic programs page.

For information about grants and scholarships, check out our undergraduate awards page or the Ph.D. funding page.

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Faculty and Staff

Faculty & Staff

Search our directory to learn about our faculty, graduate students and staff.

Learn more about our core and affiliate faculty or access resources relevant to faculty and staff.

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Harriet Tubman Day

Our new name reflects shifts in the field, our faculty’s areas of expertise, and our programmatic and curricula changes on becoming the new home for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Program in 2013. Our new name also signals our newly revised B.A. in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies as well as our revised certificates in LGBTQ Studies and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and our minors in Black Women’s Studies (jointly offered with the Department of African American Studies since 2005) and LGBTQ Studies.

Recognized by the US government in 1990, Harriet Tubman Day celebrates Tubman's heroic work towards the abolishment of slavery in the United States. WGSS's Harriet Tubman Day programming brings together Tubman scholars and artists to honor the legacy of the department's namesake.

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D.C. Queer Studies

In conjunction with the official start of the LGBTQ Studies Program at the University of Maryland in 2003, the department launched an LGBT Studies Speaker Series. In 2006, a group of faculty from schools in the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area formed to discuss new works in the field and to exchange, support, and cultivate new ways of engaging with LGBT/Queer/Sexuality Studies across the disciplines and across institutions. That group, the DC Queer Studies Consortium, was integral to the inception of the first DC Queer Studies Symposium in 2008. The DC Queer Studies Consortium has since dissolved, but the UMD Department of Women’s Studies and LGBT Studies Program have continued to organize a spring lecture or symposium.

Browse the D.C. Queer Studies Archives

Indigenous Futures Lab

The Indigenous Futures Lab is a hub of Indigenous research, evaluation, and relationship-building where we center Indigenous knowledges to build futures of co-flourishing. Opened in October, 2023 the lab aims to co-create Indigenous futures through Indigenous-led scholarship and activism through engaging events and brand new research projects. To learn more about lab events and projects and get involved, visit the homepage by clicking the button below. 

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Beloved WGSS mascot Lulu featured in Maryland Today
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The Art of Feminist Thought
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Harriet Tubman Day Poster Award Winners
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2025 Harriet Tubman Day Poster Award
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Winter Break Office Closure
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Spring 2024 LGBT/WGSS Courses
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Danielle LaPlace and Rahma Haji awarded AAUW Dissertation Fellowships
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Disability Studies Speaker Series 2024
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Access2Alumni 2025: Night 1 • IN PERSON
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Access2Alumni 2025: Night 2 • VIRTUAL
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Undergrad Movie Night: Advantageous