Student Experience


Gender and Women's Studies Students in Action

Over the past six years, students in Gender and Women's Studies classes have taken an active role on and off-campus. They have:

  • Presented original research papers, documentaries, theses at Moving Worlds: A Colloquium (celebrating 100 years of women’s education at Connecticut College)
  • Worked with incarcerated women at York Correctional Facility as part of GWS 295: Training for Transformation
  • Organized a teach-in against bullying and homophobia on university campuses across the United States in collaboration with the LGBTQ center
  • Taken a field trip to NYC to watch the Broadway play "In the Heights"
  • Attended the Bryn Mawr international conference "Heritage and Hope: Women’s Education in the Global Context" to celebrate its 125 years in existence
  • Joined in deliberations on Sustainable Development at the United Nations, expertly guided by noted Salvadorian human rights activist Marta Benavides
  • Taken a six-day road trip with Professors Segrest and Walker-Canton from New London to New Orleans to study the effects of Hurricane Katrina close-up and to join in the rebuilding efforts
  • Put in a garden on campus as part of Earth Day 2007
  • Organized a conference applying human rights principles to campus sexual assault in a way that opened up spaces for dialogue and action (2008)
  • Organized performances of The Vagina Monologues for consecutive years, raising thousands of dollars for women's causes and raising consciousness about sexual assault
  • Used CONNSharp grant money to work with Professor and Chair Mab Segrest on her research on the state mental hospital/asylum in Milledgeville, Georgia, as it manifests the relationship between race/class/gender/sexuality, definitions of insanity, and practices of commitment of those genuinely mentally ill, and those merely socially deviant

Contact Information:
Phone
860-439-5379
Fax:
860-439-5333
Email mmseg@conncoll.edu

Department of Gender & Women's Studies
Connecticut College
Box 5266
740 Williams Street
New London, CT 06320