The Ph.D. Program - Department of Women's Studies

Established in 1989, Emory was the first university to offer the Ph.D. in Women's Studies; it remains the only Ws Ph.D. program supported by a private institution. Our program emphasizes a wide interdisciplinary range of comparative feminist theories and empirical perspectives as well as providing grounding in traditional disciplines.

The Ph.D. program offers a great deal of flexibility in shaping a student's curiculum and generative mentorship from diverse faculty. Students train in feminist pedagogies and teach within the Department. All students admitted to the Ph.D. program receive full funding for five years. We also offer a graduate certificate in WS for Ph.D. candidates from other programs at Emory.

Our program supports several distinctive interdisciplinary areas of study:

• Feminist and queer theory
• Race, difference, and justice
• Health, science, and embodiment theory
• Transnational, postcolonial, and political economies