Women's and Gender Studies Program
The University of Montana's Women's and Gender Studies program grew out of student interest and grassroots activism, forces that continue to make the program thrive."
- Women’s and Gender Studies courses employ cutting edge scholarship to explore how sex, gender, and sexualities intersect with personal identity, politics, culture, history, globalization, and more.
- You can find women’s and gender studies courses in almost every department in the College of Arts and Sciences.
- Women’s and gender studies encourages students to think critically and envision justice for all peoples.
Undergraduate Student Amanda White
Amanda White
Hometown: Spokane, WA
Major: Social Work
Minor: Women's and Gender Studies
Advisor: Anya Jabour (internship advisor)
Amanda is doing an internship with Mountain Home Montana, a home for teen mother and their babies. As their Public Relations Coordinator, she is creating displays, a packet of resources, and tabling at local events in order to raise awareness about teen pregnancy and Mountain Home. Amanda’s work with Mountain Home Montana exemplifies the Women’s and Gender Studies Program’s commitment to community service and social justice.
Undergraduate Student Emily Bulger
Emily Bulger
Hometown: Great Falls, MT
Major: English Literature and Creative Writing
Minors: Women's and Gender Studies and Spanish
Advisor: Katie Kane and Anya Jabour
Emily’s research focuses on globalized media as a purveyor of American ideals about what it means to be beautiful. In the age of globalization, rapidly growing numbers of people are relating themselves to others in profoundly new ways, but popular skin whitening creams, growing incidences of eating disorders, and surgical procedures to create Western facial and body features serve as the vehicles for achieving a kind of mimicry. Using Ania Loomba's definition of hegemony, or "power achieved through a combination of coercion and consent," Emily hopes to analyze American hegemony in the context of the spread of Western beauty ideals as well as the seemingly growing desire to "go Anglo" and its possible effects on women.
Adrienne McKelvey
Adrienne McKelvey
Major: History
Minor: Women’s and Gender Studies
Adrienne is a full-time student at the University of Montana. She will complete her minor this year and graduate in 2008. Currently she is completing a three-year internship at the United States Attorney’s Office. She hopes her foundation in History and Women’s Studies will lend insight into the legal career she is pursuing.
Extracurricular Activities: Adrienne enjoys being active, hiking and spending time with her friends and family. She is also in Model United Nations and will be traveling with a delegation from UM to New York this Spring
Future Plans: Adrienne plans to attend law school.
Lisa Teberg
Lisa Teberg
Major: Psychology
Minor: Women's and Gender Studies
Lisa will be graduating Spring 2007. She has been able to marry her studies in psychology with her women's and gender studies in her current employment at a women's substance abuse recovery and transitional home.
Extracurricular activities: Lisa volunteers at a local middle school, mentoring students in a homework group for the Flagship program.
Future plans: Lisa will be pursuing graduate studies in psychology, but will maintain a focus in women's and gender studies.
“I am fortunate and thankful for the opportunity to be a part of the Women's and Gender studies program at the University of Montana.The program has an inspiring group of professors and faculty and offers a wide range of interesting courses. Choosing to declare a Women's and Gender studies minor has been one of the best decisions I have made in my academic career at the University of Montana.”
