Doctor of Philosophy in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

The Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) program supports a generous and pluralistic understanding of scholarly research on women and gender in relation to other aspects of identity, including race, ethnicity, religion, class, disability, nationality, and sexuality. Emory was the first university to offer the Ph.D. in Women's Studies, establishing its program in 1990. It remains the only Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies PhD program supported by a private institution. The WGSS emphasizes a wide interdisciplinary range of comparative feminist theories and empirical perspectives as well as grounding in traditional disciplines.
Nationally and internationally women's, gender, and sexuality studies has grown into an important and well-established field of academic inquiry. Women's, gender, and sexuality are studied in relation to other important aspects of identity, including race, ethnicity, religion, class, disability, nationality, and sexuality. Women's, Gender, and Sexuality analyzes the ways in which social and institutional power is structured in part around social identities, and it examines the meanings attached to these identities through interdisciplinary lenses. This broader understanding has implications not only for what is studied but how it is studied. Emory scholars working in the study of women, gender, and sexuality reflect this development in their work, which covers a range of disciplinary and methodological approaches.

As part of the online application, upload a scanned transcript from each post-secondary institution you have attended, present school included. (This requirement applies to applicants who are or were enrolled at Emory.)

The transcripts must be issued by the registrar's office. Unofficial copies issued to the student are fine.

We will not accept printed web pages from the University's student information system. If you submit this, the processing of your application may be delayed.
If you want to upload an electronic transcript issued by your registrar's office, make sure we can open that document without passwords or other security information. If your electronic transcript has security features, you can print it, scan it, and then upload the scanned version this will remove security features like passwords or expiration dates.
Please do not send us transcripts, either by mail or email. For your application, we accept only transcripts attached to your online application. Later on, if you are admitted and accept, then you will need to submit official copies (sealed or sent to us directly from a university registrar). Until then, submit only the transcripts you attach to the online application.

Two special considerations apply mainly to international applicants,
Transcripts must be in English, or be accompanied by notarized translations (please upload both the original and the translation, combined into one file).
Applicants with transcripts from international institutions may want to consider submitting credential evaluation reports, some programs strongly encourage such evaluation reports