The Women’s Studies department and faculty at the University of Maryland enjoy an international reputation for theoretical and methodological innovations and for their attention to curriculum transformation and transnational women’s and gender studies institution building. The Women’s Studies Program Fund supports the department as a whole.
Women’s Studies is an interdisciplinary field of inquiry analyzing structures of power, especially as they are grounded in gender, race, sexuality, ethnicity, nationality, ability, and other inequalities, and as they configure historical and contemporary struggles for social change. We see our department as a force for change in the world, change which strives to achieve intellectual freedom, social justice, and equality for all people.