International Women's Day 2025
Happy International Women’s Day!
Celebrate feminist change-makers with us and learn how CLA scholars
- Invest in women to accelerate progress—for everyone.
- Recognize and steward women’s stories.
- Confront the roots of inequality and pioneer creative responses.
CLA women leading with purpose
Many women peacebuilders face extremely dangerous situations daily and yet they are fiercely tenacious and persistent in their efforts to bring peace to their communities and countries.
Kathleen Kuehnast (PhD ‘97, anthropology)
UMN graduate programs empower students to explore issues personal to them. Writing studies PhD student Amy Harbourne uses her own experiences as research material.
Student body president Rahma Ali has a powerful message for the Class of 2028: community matters.
PhD candidate Linda Parranto Vital trades theory for practice, supporting domestic violence survivors and discovering her true calling in the process.
Read “Legal Lessons: A Political Scientist's Dive into Domestic Violence Advocacy"
Undergraduate Ella Curiel is intrigued by economics’ ability to use data to drive social change. She talks about her experience as an economics major.
Alumni of Notable Achievement recipient Kathleen Kuehnast uncovers the unseen roles of women in war and peacebuilding, shaping global policy and research on conflict and security.
Invest in #herstory
The Sara Evans Fellowship in Women's History supports outstanding University of Minnesota graduate students majoring in women’s history, helping to carry on the legacy of Professor Emerita Evans.
This Women’s History Month, help bring women’s history to life by making a gift in any amount to the Sara Evans Fellowship fund.
Bold, brilliant, and inspiring stories
Five CLA alumni have been selected as 2024 Women in Business honorees by the Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal. The award honors the most influential women in the Twin Cities, “including industry-leading executives, entrepreneurs and business owners.”
Read “Five CLA Alumni Selected as 2024 Women in Business Honorees”
The college's 2024 Dean's Medalist is challenging many of the inherently destructive practices of archaeology while centering representation and inclusion.
Alumni of Notable Achievement recipient Caroline Kent, a contemporary artist and MFA graduate, explores language and abstraction in her work. She’s a Pollock-Krasner Grant recipient and co-founder of The Bindery Projects.
Amanda Eastwood Chávez (BA ’05, Spanish and Global Studies, MPH ’11) is dedicated to creating a more equitable coffee industry, working to tackle climate challenges and promote fair trade.
Assistant Professor Jessica Lopez Lyman has been recognized for her outstanding commitment to community engagement.
Spotlight on Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies
CLA’s Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies promotes feminist scholarship, teaching, and programming that centers on the relationship between knowledge, power, and social justice. We push against established boundaries while providing a rich and rigorous education that asks students to view the world around them with a curious yet critical lens.
The department offers an undergraduate major and minor in GWSS, an undergraduate minor in GLBT studies, a doctoral degree in feminist studies, and a graduate minor in feminist and critical sexuality studies.
Learn with us
- ENGL 1003W: Women Write the World
- GWSS 1001: Gender, Power, and Everyday Life
- AFRO 3009: History of Women in Africa: 1500 to Present
- AFRO 3625W: Women Writers of Africa and the African Diaspora
- CHIC 3212: Chicana Feminism: La Chicana in Contemporary Society
- ENGL 3303W: Writing Differences: Literature by U.S. Women of Color
- ENGL 3352: Weird Books by Women and Gender-variant Writers
- GWSS 3002W: Gender, Race, and Class in the U.S.
- GWSS 3212: Chicana Feminism: La Chicana in Contemporary Society
- GWSS 3303W: Writing Differences: Literature by U.S. Women of Color
- GWSS 3406: Gender, Labor, and Politics
- GWSS 3408: Women and Gender in Modern America
- HIST 3349: U.S. Women's Legal History
- HSEM 3804H: Women who Rock (the Boat): Leadership and the Nobel Peace Prize
- JWST 3205: Women, Gender, and the Hebrew Bible
- SOC 3241: Sociology of Women's Health: Experiences from Around the World
- AFRO 4406: Black Feminist Thought
- PHIL 4622: Philosophy and Feminist Theory
- PSY 4501: Psychology of Women and Gender
- GWSS 4107: Feminist Methods
- GWSS 4406: Black Feminist Thought in the American and African Diasporas
Resources
Events
History Book Club Presents Elizabeth Dillenburg
This book provides a study of the Girls' Friendly Society to examine how the construction of girlhood was intricately tied to constructions of whiteness and ideas of empire. It uses correspondences, newsletters, scrapbooks, and photographs to reveal the often-overlooked role of girls in the British empire.
