NOTE
The College of Arts & Sciences has suspended the Interdisciplinary Studies Department, the former academic home of G&SS, in the current budget cuts. The Gender & Sexuality Studies degree program remains in existence and is now situtated in the Creative Media Institute for Film and Digital Arts. G&SS faculty are being disaggregated and assigned to new departments to work from. Please continue moving forward with us during this next period of transition and change. G&SS has had faculty members since 2007 and has been moved 5 structural times within the College of Arts and Sciences since that date.
Check out our new concentration in Film, Media, & Cultural Studies. Thank you to everyone who supports us.
The IDS degree program also remains in existence with no department head or admin (unitil further notice). Faculty: contact the Dean for information abt leading IDS BIS/BAS degrees as a Dean's Fellow.
IDS students, please continue working with IDS advisors. Contact the College of Arts & Sciences with any further questions.
Gender & Sexuality Studies at New Mexico State University offers learners “world ready” knowledge and critical practices that shape inclusive futures.
For more than thirty years, this academic program has been an innovative leader in the inter- and multidisciplinary study of gender, women, queer & LGBTQ+, borders, transmedia & cultural studies, and transnational & refugee studies.
Grounded in theories, methods, and approaches in feminist, queer, and other transformative movements, graduates of Gender & Sexuality Studies are innovators who bring socially engaged knowledge and leadership to the workforce, daily life, community organizing, institutions, aesthetic praxes and reception, and even further possibilities.
The program’s philosophy embraces theorist José Esteban Muñoz’s and others’ ideas about futurity and the hopeful potentiality of feminist and queer worldmaking. As Ann Braithwaite and Catherine M. Orr articulate, these are important knowledge projects that expose the diverse impacts of difference and power in our lives.
Cultivate your passion for social change into knowledge and action. Join our community of committed learners.
