The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality

The Center is here for everyone! Check out this recent interview with our Faculty Director Daisy Delogu about the CSGS in UChicago News 🩵

How UChicago’s Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality ‘is here for everyone’ Faculty director Daisy Delogu discusses the Center’s decades-long impact on the campus community

Join us on Wednesday, May 1 at 4:30pm for our 2024 Distinguished Alumni Lecture: TreaAndrea Russworm, “Utopian Funk: What Video Games Can Teach Us About Failed Utopias &Black Arts"

Professor Russworm received her PhD in 2008 from the Department of English Language and Literature, University of Chicago and is the Microsoft Endowed Chair and a Professor in the Interactive Media & Games Division at the University of Southern California.

Learn more and RSVP at

2024 Distinguished Alumni Lecture: TreaAndrea M. Russworm, “Utopian Funk: What Video Games Can Teach Us About Failed Utopias and Black Arts” 2024 Distinguished Alumni Lecture TreaAndrea M. Russworm, Ph.D. Professor in the Interactive Media & Games Division at the University of So...

Are you a University of Chicago PhD student who wants to be part of an incredible intellectual community that focuses on gender and sexuality?

Apply today for our 2024-25 Residential + Dissertation Fellowships!

Applications due March 15. Learn more and apply at https://csgs.info/Fellowships

Thanks to all 80+ of you who showed up for our Trans-Healthcare in Practice panel this week! This panel brought experts together to discuss centering the needs of trans and gender expansive people in health care practice.

Special thank you to our panelists: Brandon Baird (MD, laryngeal surgeon and Co-Director of the Voice Center at UChicago Medicine), Michelle Lemelman (MD, pediatric endocrinologist at UChicago Medicine), Dan Rowell, AB ’11 (MSN, RN at Howard Brown), and Noopur Shah (MA/LCPC at For Real Therapy).

Thank you to all who joined us yesterday for our Valentine’s/Galentine’s/Palentine’s Study Break! We LOVED seeing your beautiful craft creations and hope you enjoyed your mocktails and waffles 💕

Come for the waffles, stay for the crafts at our study break tomorrow from 4:30-6pm!

Behold this exact (feelings) replica of the CSGS!

The Center has many glittery things to offer undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff, and the community! From many programs that are free and open to the public, to funding for scholars working on gender and sexuality at all levels, we’ve got a lot to offer.

Here are three easy ways to learn more about us:

1. Visit our space!
On campus? Stop by 5733 S University Ave to say hello. The Center has a large, quiet, and wi-fi reliable lounge that makes an excellent study space alternative to the Reg.

2. Join our email list!
Get one weekly email on Mondays showcasing our events and funding opportunities PLUS events, jobs, funding, internships and more from all over in one handy digest.

3. Poke around our website!
Explore our calendar, affiliated faculty members, fellowship and internship opportunities, and much more at gendersexuality.uchicago.edu

Our 2023 OUTstanding Speaker Series lecture “Great Society Transsexualism: On the Political Economy of Transition” by Professor Jules Gill-Peterson is now available on our YouTube channel! Watch at

Jules Gill-Peterson, “Great Society Transsexualism: On The Political Economy Of Transition” OUTstanding Speaker SeriesJules Gill-Peterson, “Great Society Transsexualism: On The Political Economy Of Transition”Thursday, November 2, 2023The escalating...

Professors Michele Goodwin (Georgetown), Dorothy Roberts (University of Pennsylvania), and Mary Ziegler (UC Davis) at the University of Chicago Law School on October 10, 2023.

Video of their conversation with Professor Geoffrey Stone—“After Dobbs: Reproductive Freedom, Justice, and the Power of the State”—is now on our YouTube Channel! Watch it now at https://youtu.be/T2gsfzxptbQ

Join us next Thursday, November 2 at 5pm as we welcome Jules Gill-Peterson (Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University and the author of Histories of the Transgender Child) for our 2023 OUTstanding Speaker Series lecture, “Great Society Transsexualism: On the Political Economy of Transition”:

The escalating political violence accompanying trans people’s hypervisibility is often framed as a front in a “culture war,” even a distraction from capitalist crises of stagnant wages, inflation, and record wealth inequality. The dominant defense of trans people’s rights, meanwhile, shrinks the real conditions of their existence into private matters of psychology and medical gatekeeping. Instead of responding by idealizing trans precarity as resistance to gender norms or state power, this lecture critically traces the genealogy of these frames by reconsidering the concept of “transition” through its political economic function, one forged in the 1960s and through intense alignment with the Great Society welfare state.

This event is free and open to the public. RSVP requested at https://csgs.info/Gill-PetersonRSVP (linked in bio), but not required to attend.

Please join UChicago Alumni Pride and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality for a special presentation, “Coming out to vote: The political identities of the LGBT community” by Prof Andrew Proctor (MAPSS, Political Science) on Friday, May 19 from 12:30-1:30 pm at the CSGS (5733 South University Ave).

Lunch will be provided! Learn more and RSVP at https://csgs.info/proctor

Join us today at 5!

We are thrilled to welcome Paul Lisicky, Associate Professor, MFA Program in Creative Writing and English Department, Rutgers University and author of "Later: My Life at the Edge of the World," to campus this week!

Join us this Thursday at 5pm for the inaugural Lauren Berlant Memorial Lecture | Paul Lisicky, “Later and Sooner: The Long Legacy of HIV” - full details can be found at csgs.info/LisickyLecture

Lisicky will also lead a writing workshop--"On Urgency"--on Friday, April 14 at 12:30pm. RSVP is required at https://csgs.info/lisicky

Both events are free and open to the public, and will be held at 5733 S University Ave - we hope you can join us!

Want to spend the summer working on gender and/or sexuality issues? The CSGS will give you $5000 for an 8-10 week unpaid summer internship!

Hurry – applications are due Monday, February 27! Apply at https://csgs.info/SummerIntern

Are you or someone you know a UChicago student working to advance the interests of the LGBTQ+ community? Nominate them (or yourself!) for the UChicago LGBTQ+ Community Engagement Award – a $500 prize

Nominations are due Monday, February 27! https://csgs.info/LGBTQAwardNom

Today from 4:30-6pm, join us at the Center for a Galentine’s/Palentine’s study break! We’ll have waffles 🧇, crafts 🖍️and a raffle 🎟️ - vegan and gluten-free options!

Join us virtually on Monday, February 6 at 5pm for the second virtual panel in our Changing Women in a Changing Society @ 50 series titled, “The Sociology of Work: An Intersectional Lens.”

This panel will feature three speakers:
Margaret Chin, Professor of Sociology at Hunter College/CUNY and the CUNY Graduate Center.
Christine Williams, Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin.
Adia Harvey Wingfield, Professor of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis

The panel will be moderated by Sigrid Luhr, Visiting Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of Illinois Chicago.

This virtual event is free and open to the public, but registration is required at csgs.info/work (link in bio)

Join us next Thursday (January 19) at 5pm for our 2023 Iris Marion Young Distinguished Faculty Lecture! Waldo E. Johnson Jr. (Professor, University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice and Vice Provost) will deliver the lecture “Dismantling Social Difference for Advancing Justice.”

This event is free and open to the public. For more information and to RSVP, please visit csgs.info/Johnson

Join us next week on Wed, Dec 7 at 6pm CST for a virtual panel discussion on "The Sociology of the Family" featuring Marbella Eboni Hill (Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford Impact Labs), Allison Pugh (Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia), and Rin Reczek (Professor of Sociology at the Ohio State).Moderated by Jaclyn Wong (Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of South Carolina).

This event is free & open to the public, but registration is required at csgs.info/SocFamily (link in bio)

Next Thursday at 5pm, we are thrilled to welcome UN Independent Expert Victor Madrigal-Borloz to campus for our inaugural OUTstanding Speaker Series lecture, “From Wars Against Diversity to Inclusive Peace: Violence and Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity In Armed Conflict.”

The OUTstanding speaker series is a collaborative effort between the Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality and the UChicago Alumni PRIDE network designed to bring LGBTQ rights activists and practitioners to our campus.

Victor Madrigal-Borloz is a Costa Rican human rights lawyer and the UN Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. During his tenure at the U.N., Madrigal-Borloz has been noted for focusing his mandate on investigating a broad and intersectional range of issues facing LGBT communities around the world, including conversion therapy, criminalization, socio-cultural exclusion, anti-trans rhetoric, and the outsized impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on vulnerable LGBT and gender-diverse populations. Madrigal-Borloz is a senior visiting researcher at the Harvard Law School’s Human Rights Program and former member of the UN Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture.

This event is free and open to the public. RSVPs are appreciated! https://csgs.info/Madrigal-Borloz (ink in our bio)

Next Thursday at 5pm, we are thrilled to welcome UN Independent Expert Victor Madrigal-Borloz to campus for our inaugural OUTstanding Speaker Series lecture, “From Wars Against Diversity to Inclusive Peace: Violence and Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity In Armed Conflict.”

The OUTstanding speaker series is a collaborative effort between the Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality and the UChicago Alumni PRIDE network designed to bring LGBTQ rights activists and practitioners to our campus.

Victor Madrigal-Borloz is a Costa Rican human rights lawyer and the UN Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. During his tenure at the U.N., Madrigal-Borloz has been noted for focusing his mandate on investigating a broad and intersectional range of issues facing LGBT communities around the world, including conversion therapy, criminalization, socio-cultural exclusion, anti-trans rhetoric, and the outsized impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on vulnerable LGBT and gender-diverse populations. Madrigal-Borloz is a senior visiting researcher at the Harvard Law School’s Human Rights Program and former member of the UN Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture.

This event is free and open to the public. RSVPs are appreciated! https://csgs.info/Madrigal-Borloz

OUTstanding Speaker Series: Victor Madrigal-Borloz, “From Wars Against Diversity to Inclusive Peace: Violence and Discrimination Based on Sexual ... The OUTstanding speaker series is a collaborative effort between the Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality and the UChicago Alumni PRIDE n...

Join us tomorrow, Wednesday, October 26 at 5pm at the CSGS as we welcome Professor Ramzi Fawaz ()!

Professor Fawaz will be delivering the talk “Queer Love on Barbary Lane: The Serial Experience of Coming Out of the Closet with Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City” as part of our LGBTQ Studies Speaker Series.

For a full description of the talk, please visit the link in our bio. Co-sponsored by

Next Thursday at 5pm, join us at The University of Chicago Law School for Geoffrey R. Stone, “The Constitutional Right To Abortion: Past, Present, And Future”.

In this talk, Prof. Stone will discuss the history of abortion pre- Roe v. Wade, and the circumstances surrounding the 1972 decision. He will draw on his unique insights from the vantage point as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. at the time of the decision. He will then look at the legal and political developments between Roe and Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the 2022 decision that overturned Roe. He will end with his thoughts on the Court’s decision in Dobbs and what we might expect for the constitutional right to abortion in the future.

A reception will follow. RSVPs are appreciated, but not required to attend at https://csgs.info/StoneRSVP

Our Autumn 2022 newsletter is hot off the presses! Visit https://csgs.info/2022Autumn to view the ✨interactive PDF ✨

WE'RE HIRING! The CSGS is looking for people with a passion for gender and sexuality studies for a variety of positions.

Full descriptions of these positions, as well as instructions on how to apply, can be found at https://gendersexuality.uchicago.edu/about/jobs.shtml