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Make a gift to the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies online through the University of Minnesota Foundation.

For more information on ways to give, contact:

Portrait: Mary Hicks

Mary Hicks
CLA External Relations
220 Johnston Hall
101 Pleasant St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Email: hicks002@umn.edu
Phone: 612-625-5541

For other giving options, visit the U of M Foundation.

The Department of Women and Sexuality Studies is home to path-breaking feminist scholarship. GWSS faculty have made numerous distinguished contributions to the field and our graduates serve in some of the country's most prestigious departments.

Our outstanding faculty have received recognition from every professional association affiliated with our discipline as well as countless teaching awards. Our students mirror that excellence through their own research and study. Your gifts can help us build upon our impressive history.

Make a gift to the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies online through the University of Minnesota Foundation.

What Your Gift Can Do

Your tax-deductible gift provides our students with encouragement and financial support. It gives our faculty the resources to advance our understanding and knowledge of human communities. It gives our faculty the resources to advance our understanding and knowledge of gender, women, and sexuality.

Your contribution allows us to ensure:

  • A diverse and engaged undergraduate student body

    Although we are attracting better students than ever before, too many outstanding students choose other institutions. The deciding factor is often finances. Merit- and need-based scholarships are essential to our success in recruiting these talented students.

  • Excellence and competitiveness of our graduate program

    Faculty choose institutions that attract the best graduate students. We need to ensure the excellence and competitiveness of our graduate programs so that we can compete for the best faculty and emerging scholars.

  • A distinguished faculty

    Creating endowed chairs and professorships and supporting interdisciplinary research centers and programs will help us recruit and retain outstanding faculty.

This year we are focusing our attention on building the following funds to support our students and programs:

  • The Janet Spector Memorial Fund
    The Janet Spector Memorial Fund supports graduate student research in the Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies. Janet Spector (1944-2011) was a transformative archaeologist, a brilliant teacher, a dynamic chair of women's studies and a founder of the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies.
  • Hawthorne Hartung Women's Studies
    This fund provides unrestricted support for the department and enables us to sustain a lively intellectual culture for faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates through colloquia and speaker series. In addition to sponsoring a monthly speaker series, GWSS has inaugurated a colloquium, in collaboration with the Department of Political Science, on Gender, Sexuality, Power, and Politics.
  • Graduate Research and Fellowship Fund in Feminist Studies
    This fund supports books, fees, and tuition for graduate students.
  • Christina Grubba Memorial Scholarship
    This fund supports juniors and seniors of the department in participating in unpaid internships.
  • Friends of Women's Studies Scholarship
    This award based on student merit.