Initiative on Sexualities and Genders

Academics and Research

The Initiative on Sexualities and Genders is an incubator for emerging scholarship in LGBTQ Studies at Brown and beyond.

ISG builds scholarly community. Programs facilitate multi-directional conversations between experts, graduate students, and undergraduates about emerging scholarship, critical methods, and archival materials in LGBTQ Studies.

The Gender History Workshop (GHW) is a forum for graduate students at Brown University to get feedback on their writing on histories of women, gender, and sexuality. The workshop welcomes scholarship that lives at the intersection of “gender” and “history,” both terms broadly construed.
An undergraduate class that connects students to the gay past through hands-on experience with archival materials and connections to scholars and experts working in libraries, archives, and museums.