Welcome to the Applied Gender Studies Department

Applied Gender Studies (AGS) gives you the opportunity to use knowledge in women’s and gender studies as a vital force for change in today’s world. The Applied Gender Studies Department at CGU combines first-rate interdisciplinary education in feminist theory with a caring, supportive faculty, hands-on experience, and career-enhancing applied applications that enable our graduates to land successful careers empowering women and enriching lives.  This program focuses upon issues of gender both globally and domestically.

At the heart of the Master’s in Applied Gender Studies program is an internship that allows students to positively impact their community even before graduation—real-world experience at organizations supporting and empowering women across the globe. The internship takes you out of the classroom and into the world to solve problems in critical settings like schools, community organizations, women’s centers, prisons, and shelters. Our students have partnered with:

  • A New Way of Life, Los Angeles, a transitional home for formerly incarcerated women
  • California Women’s Foundation, Los Angeles
  • Feminist Majority Foundation, Beverly Hills
  • Sheila Kuehl, LA County supervisor, lesbian activist, and former California state senator
  • Human Rights Watch, Los Angeles
  • Los Angeles County Women and Health
  • Sadie Nash Leadership Project, New York City
  • United Nations, Women’s Division, New York City)
  • National Council for Research on Women, New York City
  • Amnesty International, Women’s Division, New York City
  • La Casa de Acogida, San Sebastian, Peru
  • Learning Enrichment and Academic Resources Network (LEARN) in Orange County
  • Women Thrive Worldwide, Washington DC
  • The Doula Project, New York City
  • MADRE, New York City

Our programming in women’s and gender studies analyzes the phenomenon of gender through the lens of intersectionality—including race, class, sexuality, and location—and equips students for academic and nonprofit careers in the areas of women’s, feminist, masculinity, and queer studies. AGS faculty possess expertise in women’s studies, education studies, history, cultural studies, religion, politics, reproductive rights policy issues, media studies, GLBTQ studies, Africana studies, as well as specialized knowledge in Black women’s history.

Director: Linda Perkins
121 E. 10th St. • Claremont, CA 91711 • 909-621-8612 • Fax 909-607-9587

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Linda Perkins

University Professor
Director, Applied Gender Studies

 

PROGRAMS
Faculty & Research

 

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Linda Perkins

University Professor
Director, Applied Gender Studies

Research Interests

Women and African-American higher education, history and contemporary issues on women in higher education, especially Black women, global gender issues.

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Eve Oishi

Associate Professor of Cultural Studies

Research Interests

Cultural studies, Media studies, Feminist and queer theory, Asian American studies

 

Extended Faculty – Claremont Colleges


Myriam Chancy

Scripps College

Research Interests

African diaspora with specialization in its literature


Candida Jaquez

Scripps College

Research Interests

Latino popular and Mexican traditional music with a specialty in women’s mariachi performance across the complexities of performativity, ethnographic research, race, class, and gender

Current Graduate Students


Kameron Abilla
MA Student

Research Interests

Ethnographic Research, Africana Studies, Women in Religion, Feminist Theory


Anoushka Bhandari
MA Student

Research Interests

Feminist Literature and Sexual & Reproductive Health Rights


Chancie Calliham
MA Student

Research Interests

Historical Understandings of Black Queerness; Evolution of the Understanding of Sex, Sexuality, and Gender; Non-Western Understandings of Sex, Sexuality, and Gender; Black Feminist Thought; Body Politics; Intersectionality; Black Transgender/Genderqueer Narratives


Julissa Contreras Castanon
MA Student

Research Interests

Gender and sexuality, Latin studies, Black studies, Race in America, Community Health, Decolonization and Anti-Imperialism in the US


Makenzie Dolan
MA Student

Research Interests

Access & Equity in Higher Education, Title IX


Emily Lauletta
MA Student

Research Interests

Feminist Media Studies, Reproductive Justice


Abby Lawlor
MA Student, Concentration in Community Engaged Education & Social Change

Research Interests

Reproductive Justice, Rural Queer Students in Higher Education


Mofoluwake Olaleye
MA Student

Research Interests

Domestic violence and women of color


Michelle Romero
MA Student

Research Interests

Reproductive Justice


Katie Ward
MA Student

Research Interests

Black feminism, Indigenous feminism