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Women's and Gender Studies (WGS)

Emma Teng and Helen Elaine Lee

Helen Elaine Lee and Emma Teng to head SHASS academic units

Dean Deborah Fitzgerald announces leadership appointments in Women's and Gender Studies and Global Studies and Languages.

May 29, 2015

(From left) Anne McCants, Ina Lipkowitz, and Emma Teng of MIT at the symposium, "Consuming Food, Producing Culture," held at MIT.

At MIT, food for thought

Symposium uses cuisine to explore immigration, identity, and politics.

February 11, 2015

MIT dome with four community member photos superimposed, including Chuck Vest at right

Women's and Gender Studies "Women-in-STEM Edit-a-thon" honors former MIT President Charles Vest

April 30, 2014

Sally Haslanger is a professor of philosophy at MIT and director of the program in Women's and Gender Studies.

Q&A with MIT philosopher Sally Haslanger

What is ‘natural’ and what is ‘social’?

February 25, 2013

Lerna Ekmekcioglu, McMillan-Stewart Career Development Assistant Professor of History at MIT

Preserving culture

MIT historian Lerna Ekmekcioglu explores how women preserve Armenian cultural identity.

January 22, 2013