These courses use identity as a category of analysis and as subject matter, examining how its social construction reflects and determines differentials of power and opportunity. Students analyze identity groups as social agents whose biological, socialized identities and experiences are shaped by—and help shape—systems of gender, race, ethnicity, socio-economic class, sexuality, and national power. This concentration is interested, above all, in the changing status of various identities over time and space.
Sponsored by: History and Society Division
Faculty Contact: Mary Godwyn
Concentration Coursework
Choose two (2) courses from the required list and choose two (2) additional courses, selected from either the required or the elective list, for a total of four (4) courses.