{"id":4,"date":"2022-11-02T18:09:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T18:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/genderstudies\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2025-10-24T00:03:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T00:03:22","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/genderstudies\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h1>Welcome!<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n  \n    \n    \n  \n    \n    \n        \n    \n    \n  \n    \n    \n  \n    \n    \n  \n    \n  \n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--interactive-content-pane \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--interactive-content-pane\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"left\">\n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          About the Department\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n      \n    <div class=\"pagination-wrapper\">\n      <ul class=\"interactive-content-pane-pagination\"><\/ul>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <div class=\"right\">\n          <div class=\"swiper\">\n        <div class=\"swiper-wrapper\">\n                      <div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n              <h3 class=\"pane-title\">\n                The basics\n              <\/h3>\n                                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>A dynamic interdisciplinary program, Gender and Sexuality Studies at USC offers its majors, minors and graduate certificate students a heady intellectual environment, a sense of community, and unparalleled personalized attention. Our curriculum explores the myriad ways gender and sexuality impact politics, intimate life, culture, the workplace, athletics, technology, health, science, and in the very production of knowledge itself. Our courses emphasize that gender is not a freestanding category, but rather one that takes shape through its intersection with other relations of power, including sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, nationality, and religion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                          \n  \n                          <\/div>\n                      <div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n              <h3 class=\"pane-title\">\n                GSS internship\n              <\/h3>\n                                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>GSS encourages and fosters \u201creal world\u201d experience beyond the classroom through our internship program, open only to majors. Through our community internship programs, students gain course credit for valuable gender-related work experience at a range of organizations, including women\u2019s health clinics, the world\u2019s largest international LGBT archive, Hollywood studios and other sectors in the creative industry, as well as in non-profit and social justice organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                          \n  \n                          <\/div>\n                      <div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n              <h3 class=\"pane-title\">\n                Our faculty\n              <\/h3>\n                                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>Drawn from across the university, our faculty consists of leaders in their fields of specialization, including popular and public culture, LGBTQ studies, sports and gender, reproductive rights, class and social movements, politics and government, and new medical technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                          \n  \n                              <ul>\n                                            <li>\n                                \n<div class=\"f--field f--link\">\n\n    \n    \n  \n<a \n  class=\"link\"\n  href= https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/genderstudies\/faculty\/\n  target=\"_blank\"  aria-label=\"Read more about Meet our faculty\"  \n>\n    Meet our faculty \n  <svg version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" x=\"0px\" y=\"0px\" viewBox=\"0 0 35 35\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 35 35\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><polygon fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" fill=\"#FC0\" points=\"19.3,27.5 29.3,17.5,19.3,7.5 16.3,10.4 21.4,15.4 6.7,15.4 6.7,19.6 21.4,19.6 16.3,24.6 \"\/><\/svg>\n<\/a>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        <\/li>\n                                    <\/ul>\n                          <\/div>\n                      <div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n              <h3 class=\"pane-title\">\n                Location\n              <\/h3>\n                                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>Located in the heart of Los Angeles, our university and department occupy a predominantly Black and brown neighborhood. Our department remains committed to both maintaining and forging deep connections and collaborations with our surrounding community, through mutual care and mutual aid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                          \n  \n                          <\/div>\n                      <div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n              <h3 class=\"pane-title\">\n                Why GSS\n              <\/h3>\n                                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>By necessity, gender and sexuality studies departments, so hard-won as our own and others have been across the world, were built not only to provide an institutional home for research centering women, people of color and sexual minorities, but also to build worlds: to provide spaces that would give our students and communities respite and refuge from gendered, racialized and sexualized oppression. This is something our department has provided for our students and surrounding community at USC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                          \n  \n                          <\/div>\n                      <div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n              <h3 class=\"pane-title\">\n                Our alumni\n              <\/h3>\n                                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>We are tremendously proud of our alumni who continue the work of building worlds in a range of fields including communications and media, the arts and education, business and non-profit organizations, politics, social justice and government, as well as in the law, health, and athletics. 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A survey of our certificate alumnae\/i shows that a Gender and Sexuality Studies Graduate Certificate can help you find a job in or out of academe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                      <\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n          \n                                      \n                \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/genderstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/128\/2023\/03\/iStock_000003469166Small-Affiliates-768x432.jpg\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/genderstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/128\/2023\/03\/iStock_000003469166Small-Affiliates-768x432.jpg 768w\"          data-sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 23vw, (min-width:768px) 39vw, 83vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n          \n          <div class=\"text-container\">\n            \n                            <h3>\n                  \n                    Affiliates &#038; Resources\n\n                                  <\/h3>\n            \n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>The Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies is closely affiliated with the Center for Feminist Research and the Consortium for Gender, Sexuality, Race and Public Culture, both of which offer programming and opportunities for students and faculty at USC working in the areas of gender and sexuality.<\/p>\n<p>GSS also offers the Tedesco Scholarship for undergraduate and graduate students in our programs and multiple fellowship opportunities open to students across the University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                      <\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n  \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n        \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--stacking-cards \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--stacking-cards\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n            <div class=\"header-container\">\n                                \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          Featured Faculty\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n            \n                                \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>Our Core Faculty comes from over 10 different departments and schools across the University. Get to know our faculty today!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n    \n            <div class=\"cards-container\">\n            \n                <div class=\"card\">\n\n                    <div class=\"title-description\">\n\n                                                      \n<div class=\"f--field f--cta-title\">\n\n    \n  <h3>\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/oneka-labennett\/\" \n         target=\"_blank\"                 class=\"\" \n      >Oneka LaBennett<\/a>\n      <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                                                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>Oneka LaBennett is Director of USC\u2019s Black Studies Center, and Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and Gender and Sexuality Studies. LaBennett is the author of several books, including <em>Global Guyana: Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond<\/em> (NYU Press 2024), which was shortlisted for the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. LaBennett\u2019s OpEds and public commentary on figures such as Vice President Kamala Harris, Beyonc\u00e9 and Jay-Z, Rihanna, and Nicki Minaj have appeared in platforms such as <em>Ms. Magazine<\/em>, <em>Newsweek<\/em>, <em>The Guardian<\/em>, <em>Politico<\/em>, and NBCNews.com. At USC, LaBennett also serves as Faculty Chair of the Africana Research Cluster. Previously, she was Associate Professor of Africana Studies and a Faculty Fellow with the Atkinson Center for Sustainability at Cornell University. She also conducted oral history research on art and culture in the Bronx with a focus on Bronx women\u2019s contributions to hip hop music in her capacity as Director of American Studies and Research Director of the Bronx African American History Project at Fordham University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                    <\/div>\n\n\n                    \n                        \n                            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n        <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/oneka-labennett\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Read more about Oneka LaBennett\">\n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img decoding=\"async\"\n                            src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/genderstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/128\/2025\/10\/LaBennett-2025-square-768x432.jpg\"\n          srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/genderstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/128\/2025\/10\/LaBennett-2025-square-768x432.jpg 768w\"          sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 23vw, (min-width:768px) 39vw, 83vw\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n      <\/a>\n  \n\n<\/div>\n\n                    \n                <\/div>\n\n            \n                <div class=\"card\">\n\n                    <div class=\"title-description\">\n\n                                                      \n<div class=\"f--field f--cta-title\">\n\n    \n  <h3>\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/diana-blaine\/\" \n         target=\"_blank\"                 class=\"\" \n      >Diana Blaine<\/a>\n      <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                        \n                                                        \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>Diana Blaine teaches in the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies where she also serves as Director of Undergradute Studies. Her research and publications examine representations of death in media, including analysis of corpses in advertising, literature, news, films and television. Besides thanatology, Blaine studies other representations of gender and the body, including abortion, yoga, and celebrity. For better or worse, she sees everything through the lens of mortality. Blaine has published a multitude of book chapters and had her work published in <em>Mississippi Quarterly<\/em> and <em>The Conversation<\/em>, amongst others. Previously, Dr. Blaine was a Fellow at the NEH Institute, Columbia University. 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