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Department of Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Faculty

Tatiana Cruz, Associate Professor and Chair of Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Interdisciplinary Program Director of Africana Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Becky Thompson, Professor and Undergraduate Program Director of Sociology
Suzanne Leonard, Professor
Dawna M. Thomas, Professor (on leave Fall 2025 semester)

Overview

The Department of Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies provides an institutional home for interdisciplinary inquiry at Simmons University. It houses four allied undergraduate programs in Africana Studies, Migration Studies, Sociology, and Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, as well as a Master's program in Gender and Cultural Studies.

RGS programs express Simmons's commitment to understanding the power of culture to shape identities, lived experiences, inequities, and opportunities. They encourage work across disciplines and draw on a range of faculty expertise from across the University.

 

• Africana Studies (BA)
• Programs in Sociology
• Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (BA)
• Africana Studies (Minor)
• Law and Justice (Minor)
• Migration Studies (Minor)
• Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (Minor)
• Africana Studies Course Descriptions
• Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Course Descriptions