Department of Race, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Faculty

Tatiana Cruz, Assistant Professor & Interdisciplinary Program Director of Africana Studies and Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies
Foster Kamanga, Assistant Teaching Professor
Suzanne Leonard, Professor and Graduate Program Director of Gender and Cultural Studies
Saher Selod, Associate Professor (On leave 2024-2025)
Dawna M. Thomas, Professor and Chair of Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Becky Thompson, Professor and Program Director of Sociology

Overview

The Department of Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies provides an institutional home for interdisciplinary inquiry at Simmons University. It houses four allied undergraduate programs in Africana Studies, Asian Studies, Migration Studies, and Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, as well as a Master's program in Gender and Cultural Studies.

RGS programs express Simmons's commitment to understanding the power of culture to shape identities, lived experiences, inequities, and opportunities. They encourage work across disciplines and draw on a range of faculty expertise from across the University