On behalf of Interim Provost and Vice-Principal (Academic) Tom Harris and Dean Barbara Crow, I am pleased to inform you that Dr.

The Rose Award was created to honor Harold M. Rose, who was a pioneer in conducting research on the condition faced by African Americans.

Renowned sex researcher Sari van Anders is joining Queen’s University as the Canada 150 Research (C150) Chair

Katherine McKittrick, Associate Professor of Gender Studies, has been named to the Royal Society of Canada’s (RSC) College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists program.

On October 18, 2016 Katherine McKittrick was named the inaugural recipient of the Ban Righ Foundation Mentorship Award for her continuing mentorship of students at Queen’s and

We would like to welcome our new Department Head, Samantha King, from the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, who starts her five year term January 1, 2016

We would like to welcome our new faculty member, Trish Salah, who started July 1st, 2015.

The Department of Gender Studies stands in sorrow with our Indigenous neighbors, students, staff and colleagues in these terrible days. We send our sympathy to the families of the 751 Indigenous children and adults whose remains have been revealed on the grounds of the ;Marieval Indian Residential “School” in SK, barely one month since the discovery of the remains of the children at Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation.

The Department of Gender Studies at Queen's University is a signatory to the following statement of solidarity with Palestinian Feminist Collective.

The Department of Gender Studies would like to express its great sorrow and anger about the horrific mass murder of three generations of a Muslim family in London, ON. We have no tolerance for Islamophobia or white supremacist hatred and violence. As we mourn the lives lost to yet another despicable racist attack, we stand by all the Muslim members of our communities. We call on Queen’s University and our political leaders —municipal, provincial and federal—to develop a strategy to eradicate anti-Muslim racism, to make our campus and our society safe and welcoming for Muslims.