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In terms of public action, Ganas remains a community-driven, cross-cultural association that offers students volunteer opportunities to engage with the predominantly undocumented Latine migrant worker population. We maintain relationships with local organizations and members while developing new ones, along with more conventional classes and readings.

The aim of this course is to interrogate historical perceptions of women and gender in the early modern era, and to develop a critical approach to primary source documents.  We attempt to complicate constructions of ideal feminine behavior by examining the evidence that shows what women were actually up to.  In addition to the ways in which major

This course examines the visual representation and performance of race, gender, and fashionable dress from roughly 1504 to 1954. For elite early modern sitters, portraits were a valued means of

This course engages students with authentic texts, audio, and visual materials drawn from traditional and contemporary literature, film, and other art forms. Through these sources, students will critically explore issues of gender, gender inequality, and sexuality, including LGBTQ perspectives, in Chinese and Taiwanese cultural contexts.

This course examines the entangled histories of race, gender, and sexuality within the expansion and maintenance of U.S. Empire. We will explore histories ranging from the selective exclusion of nineteenth century migrants, America’s global war on sex work in the early twentieth century, to the gendered dimensions of twentieth