Northern Arizona University

   

Welcome to the Women's Studies Program at Northern Arizona University NAU’s Women’s Studies Program is interdisciplinary, with a particular focus on gender and the Colorado Plateau, US ethnic and indigenous women, and transnational feminisms.

\The program organizes yearly all-women Women on the Rapids trips on the Colorado and San Juan rivers, cross-lists classes with the Department of Applied Indigenous Studies and the Ethnic Studies Program, works closely with affiliated faculty across five colleges and 22 departments, programs and offices, and offers discipline-based and Women’s Studies courses that balance theory and activism, the local and the global, the humanities and social sciences, and the classroom and the natural world. We locate gender in space and place by examining the interactions of gender, race, class, ethnicity, nationality, sexuality and age.

In classrooms and conference sessions, on the river and in canyons, in our writing and discussions, on-line and face-to-face, we rediscover our histories, explore contemporary realities and empower ourselves to think critically, interrogate text, confront oppression and imagine possibilities.