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Women's and Gender History

Women’s and Gender History is a thriving field of study at Penn State.  Faculty do research on diverse topics including women and the twentieth-century American welfare state; women and Islam; and gender and nationalism from eighteenth-century France to modern India.  We offer undergraduate survey courses on U. S. and European women’s history. Regular graduate-level seminars expose students to the most current thinking in the field. A Gender History Workshop offers a venue for exchange of current scholarship, and the Dual Title Degree Program in Women’s Studies provides interdisciplinary training.