Gender Studies
The Gender Studies department seeks to interrelate and to bring together Women’s and Gender Studies emerging from a wide range of disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. The department is built with reference to the large and growing body of high quality research and critical theory being developed internationally in Women’s and Gender Studies in the last three decades. The complexity of gender is understood as a product of the often unequal entangling of global and local forces in the region. Developing integrative perspectives in Gender Studies means investigating the complex relations between the symbolic and the social order, the entangled relations between gender, race, and class, and the dynamics combining the (re)production of social persons and societies. Finally, focusing on gender in all of these senses implies developing self-reflective perspectives in Gender Studies. The critique of dominant patterns and global hierarchies in the construction of knowledge(s), social critique, and the development of an interrelated variety of perspectives on gender and in Gender Studies are of crucial importance in the endeavor to produce insights of regional and global relevance. With an important, but not exclusive, focus on Central and Eastern Europe, Gender Studies department seeks to contribute to the development of socially relevant knowledge based on these approaches, and to critically interrogate past and present developments related to gender in culture and society. For more information visit the Department of Gender Studies at CEU or download/print Department brochure.
Selected Areas of Research
Research areas for the Department of Gender studies include: feminist theories and epistemology; intersections with race, class and sexuality; local and transnational women's movements; comparative analysis; gender and (post) state-socialist societies; cultural studies; queer theory; globalization and post-colonialism; labor; literary studies; gender, nation and state. Click here for a list of department faculty.
