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Gender & Queer Studies

1500 N. Warner St.
Tacoma, WA 98416-1008

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Program Director

Laura Krughoff

Administrative Support Coordinator

Rutie MacKenzie-Margulies

If you would like more information about the GQS major or minor, please email gqs@pugetsound.edu. We鈥檙e glad you鈥檙e here and are happy to help you!

Faculty News

Professor Tanya Erzen's op-ed "Unlocking the Potential of Prison Education," published in Inside Higher Ed.

Professor Heather White's article "The United Methodist Church's battle over LGBTQ rights has been raging for 50 years", published in The Washington Post.

Students in GQS 201 (An Introduction to Gender, Queer, and Feminist Studies) create interactive historical timelines of the movement and our campus program as part of their coursework. Click on the title above to view the most recent projects.

Professor White joins the podcast for a discussion of the surprising parallels between queer studies and religious studies.

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REL 307: Prisons, Gender, and Education brings students out of the classroom and into the local women鈥檚 prison education program. It combines academically rigorous content along with weekly participation in a college program at the local prison. Students describe the class as 鈥渓ife-changing鈥 and 鈥渢ransformative.鈥

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