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GSWS/FQT is the premier site for scholarship on gender and sexuality at the University of Pennsylvania. Through the GSWS Program, our undergraduate major and minor and graduate certificate attract students across all disciplines. Through the FQT Center, we provide a home for sharing research, artistic and activist work related to queer, feminist and trans studies.

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Sep 24

The Foucault Century

Symposium

All day event

“What, do you imagine that I would take so much trouble and so much pleasure in…

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Beth Linker, GSWS Affiliate Faculty, Shortlisted for 2026 George Rosen Prize

Beth Linker, the Samuel H. Preston Endowed Term Professor in the Social Sciences and chair of the department of history & sociology of science in the School of Arts & Sciences, was shortlisted for the 2026 George Rosen Prize for her book, Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America.

July 20, 2026

Pilar Gonalons-Pons, GSWS Core Faculty, Wins Award from the American Sociological Association

Pilar Gonalons-Pons, the Alber-Klingelhofer Presidential Associate Professor of Sociology in the School of Arts & Sciences, has won the Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Section’s Devah Pager Outstanding Article Award at the American Sociological Association annual meeting.

July 20, 2026

Trans Oral History Project Featured in Omnia

The Philadelphia Trans Oral History Project captures the stories and memories of the city’s transgender community. Soon, a series of zines will bring that history to the public.

June 30, 2026