Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies: professors and courses

Course codes WGS

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Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies professors and instructors
Name	Teaches
Professors · 31
Kamran Ali CVProfessor	No classes listed this year
Megan Alrutz CVProfessor	No classes listed this year
Mary C Beltran Evaluations CVProfessor	WGS 324, WGS 324D, WGS 340
Keffrelyn D Brown CVProfessor	No classes listed this year
Simone Arlene Browne CVAssociate professor	No classes listed this year
Rosemary CandelarioAssociate professor	No classes listed this year
Karma Ruth Chavez CVProfessorsocial movements · queer of color critique · abolition · rhetoric	No classes listed this year
Lina Chhun Evaluations CVAssistant professorTransnational · feminist and queer methodologies · women of color feminisms · Southeast Asian American Studies	WGS 340, WGS 350
Jackie Cuevas CVAssociate professor	No classes listed this year
Ann CvetkovichProfessorqueer theory · affect studies · historical trauma · and public feelings	No classes listed this year
Amira Rose Davis Evaluations CVAssistant professor	WGS 301
Caroline Faria CVAssociate professorFeminist political and economic geographies · feminist methodologies · Africa and the African diaspora	No classes listed this year

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Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies professors and instructors, continued
Name	Teaches
Professors · 31
Thomas Garza CVAssociate professor emeritus	WGS 393
Lyndon K Gill Evaluations CVAssociate professorQueer aesthetics in the African Diaspora · the erotic · LGBT art and activism in Caribbean cultures · African-based spiritual traditions in the Americas	WGS 301, WGS 335, WGS 340
Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez CVProfessor	No classes listed this year
Laura G Gutierrez Evaluations CVAssociate professorLatinx performance studies · Mexican and Latinx visual cultural studies · queer theory · gender studies	WGS 301
Lauren Jae Gutterman CVAssociate professorHistory of Women · Gender and Sexuality · American Studies · LGBTQ Studies	WGS 335
Mike Hames-Garcia Evaluations CVProfessor	WGS 301, WGS 340
Sara Haq Evaluations CVAssistant professor of instructionPersian	WGS 305, WGS 335, WGS 379S
Vox Jo Hsu CVAssociate professor	WGS 335
Alison Kafer CVAssociate professor	WGS 340
Julie A Minich CVProfessor	WGS 340
Lisa L MooreProfessorEighteenth-century English and American literature · women’s literature · LGBT literature and culture · poetry and poetics	No classes listed this year
Lina-Maria M Murillo CVAssociate professorReproductive justice and care · Latina health activism · population control ideology · immigration	WGS 301
Nicole D Ramsey Evaluations CVAssistant professorBlack Central America · Performance and Diaspora Theory · Afro-Latinx and Caribbean Migration and Identity Formations · Hemispheric Black and Indigenous Feminist Thought	WGS 305, WGS 340S
Stacey K Sowards CVProfessor	No classes listed this year
Ashley Coleman Taylor Evaluations CVAssistant professor	WGS 356
Lisa B ThompsonProfessorAfrican American literature (1945-present) · Black theatre · memoir · performance studies	No classes listed this year
Enzo E Vasquez Toral CVAssistant professor	No classes listed this year
Pavithra Vasudevan Evaluations CVAssistant professor	WGS 340
Hershini YoungProfessor	No classes listed this year
Lecturers and instructors · 2
Jennifer N Henderson CVLecturer	WGS 335
Carolyn Waldrep Evaluations CVLecturer, Department of SociologyWork and organizations · family demography · gender · debt and consumer finances	WGS 301
Graduate and other instructors · 4
Shannon Potter Evaluations CV	WGS 301
Weston Richey CV	WGS 303
Ipek Sahinler Evaluations CV	WGS 303
Jennifer Sales Evaluations CV	WGS 340

Who teaches each course

Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies: who teaches each course
Course	Taught by
WGS 301	Amira Rose Davis, Lyndon K Gill, Laura G Gutierrez, Mike Hames-Garcia, Lina-Maria M Murillo, Carolyn Waldrep, Shannon Potter
WGS 303	Weston Richey, Ipek Sahinler
WGS 305	Sara Haq, Nicole D Ramsey
WGS 324	Mary C Beltran
WGS 324D	Mary C Beltran
WGS 335	Lyndon K Gill, Lauren Jae Gutterman, Sara Haq, Vox Jo Hsu, Jennifer N Henderson
WGS 340	Mary C Beltran, Lina Chhun, Lyndon K Gill, Mike Hames-Garcia, Alison Kafer, Julie A Minich, Pavithra Vasudevan, Jennifer Sales
WGS 340S	Nicole D Ramsey
WGS 350	Lina Chhun
WGS 356	Ashley Coleman Taylor
WGS 379S	Sara Haq
WGS 393	Thomas Garza

Bachelor’s degrees1 program

Women's and gender studies BA

Master’s degrees1 program

Women’s and gender studies MA

Pay after graduationUp to $57,300

Median pay after graduation by field
Field of study	1 year out	4 years out
Ethnic, Cultural Minority, Gender, and Group StudiesBachelor’s · Women's and gender studies	$41,500	$57,300

Median earnings of graduates who received federal student aid, from the U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard: 1 year out is 2020–21 pay (2022 dollars), 4 years out is 2019–20 pay (2021 dollars). Fields group related programs.

About the department

Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies is part of College of Liberal Arts, led by Dean David Sosa. Its course codes are WGS.

SourcesUT catalog, HB 2504

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