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Department of Women’s and Gender Studies

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Alumni

Our graduates work to further the activist tradition by serving local, state, national, and global communities as well as acting as a resource and guide for issues related to gender and sexuality. 

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Email us at wgst@sc.edu with a headshot and short description of your experience in the WGST program and how it has influenced your work today!

 

Alumni Spotlight

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Emma Galluccio

There's so many different outlets that you can find in WGST if you apply yourself in the ways that you want. When you're studying Women's and Gender Studies, it helps to figure out a specific avenue which you want to apply yourself. Through WGST, I realized I really liked advocacy, working on a client basis, and being able to get to know somebody's story individually and help them learn and grow.  That's why I decided to pursue case management. There is so much meaningful work out there. It's a matter of how you apply yourself. There are so many opportunities, and I feel like the Department of Women's and Gender Studies does such a good job of entertaining all those other interests that you can pair with the degree.

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Austina Wolverton

I was awarded the Women and Gender Studies Certificate and I love having this background. I work at the university and part-time at a homeless shelter and the knowledge I learned in this program allowed me to be more compassionate, and it allowed me to be a better advocate for women and diverse backgrounds. I would not trade the experiences learning from absolute rockstars in their field or the incredible friendships I gained for anything.

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Amanda Masterpaul

As a 2007 graduate from the WGST program, I was integrally involved with the Women's Well-being Initiative where I used Theatre of the Oppressed as a feminist intervention with local schooling partnerships and within the juvenile arbitration program. I recall taking classes with Lynn Weber and Deanne Messias, reveling in each critical conversation we had. I'm grateful for the WGST department because it opened pathways within the non-profit sector and in higher education. I am currently a Lecturer in the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Coastal Carolina University where I merge the disciplines of intersectional feminism, artistic activism, and social justice into my teaching, participatory research, and community-centered initiatives. 

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Marcia D. Taylor

The experience of being selected to participate in the Women of Color Leadership Project (National Women's Studies Association) was definitely facilitated by my enrollment in the Women's and Gender Studies graduate certificate program.  Earning the certificate has added depth to my social work practice, as well as to my current position in higher education, where I am training future social workers.

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