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The Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies is located on the first floor of the Rabb Graduate Center.
Mailing Address
Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
MS 082
Brandeis University
415 South Street
Waltham, MA 02453-2728
For questions or concerns related to WGS, please contact WGS Chair Professor Sabine von Mering.
Department Administration
Sabine von Mering
Chair
Director, Center for German and European Studies (CGES)
Center for German and European Studies
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Expertise: Climate Activism, German Action on Climate Change, Antisemitism on Social Media, Jewish-German Dialogue, German as a Foreign Language, German and European Culture
Peter R. Kalb
Undergraduate Advising Head (UAH)
Cynthia L. and Theodore S. Berenson Chair of Fine Arts and Associate Professor of Contemporary Art, and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
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Expertise: Modern and contemporary art
Gowri Vijayakumar
Director of Graduate Studies Spring 2026
Associate Professor of Sociology, and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
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Expertise: Gender, sexuality, transnational social movements, development, labor and labor movements, feminist theory, HIV/AIDS, ethnographic and interview methods, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa
