Founded in 1972, UNC Greensboro's program in Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies is one of the oldest in the nation. The program offers an interdisciplinary liberal arts education that critically engages students in considering the complexities of gender and sexual identity and women's lives historically and in the contemporary moment. Coursework further helps students understand how gender intersects with other important social identities, like nationality, sexuality, race, class, ethnicity, and ability.<br><br>PROGRAM DISTINCTIONS<br>Faculty awards include the John Hope Franklin Best Book in American Studies, the American Educational Association's Choice Best Book Award, the Conference on College Composition Association's Outstanding Book Award, the Southeastern Medieval Association's Best First Book Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Humanities Center.<br>Faculty author and contribute to books on topics including U.S. feminisms and transnational feminisms, the relationship between human rights discourse and visual representation, eroticism in medieval Christianity, trans performance and critical ecology, the role of gathering in African American art, social movements, and Latin American women's activism, and gender and European musical modernism.