Women’s Studies

Storyteller and comedienne Tricia Rose Burt, a Vanderbilt alumna, will give a free performance of her acclaimed one-woman show "How to Draw a Nekkid Man" Oct. 21 in Sarratt Cinema. Read More

Sarah Shuck, Stephanie Hirst Deluca, Madeleine Joullié, Ph.D., (University of Pennsylvania), Keersten Davis, Sonja Brooks and Michelle Sulikowski gather after Joullié's presentation, "Women in Science: Then and Now." (Photo by Stephen Doster) Vanderbilt University’s first Women in Science Symposium, held April 29, featured prominent female scientists discussing… Read More

The Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center will present its Mentoring Award to Christine Eischen, associate professor of pathology, microbiology and immunology; and Kelly Oliver, the W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy, during the Cuninggim Lecture on Women in Culture and Society Tuesday, March 13. The Women’s Center also… Read More

Rebecca Traister, a Salon.com senior writer who covered the 2008 presidential race from a feminist and personal perspective, will speak at Vanderbilt University’s Stevenson Center at 7 p.m. Feb. 22. Read More

Watch video of a Feb. 8 talk by Mandy Carter, one of the leading African American lesbian activists in the country. In “Justice or Just Us?” she discusses the LGBTQI movement’s difficulty in acknowledging paths blazed by the women’s movement and the Black Civil Rights movement, challenging everyone to… Read More

Theologian Catherine Keller will be the speaker for the Divinity School's Antoinette Brown Lecture March 24 at Benton Chapel. Read More