Aerial shot of the Academic Quad.
The Gladys Sakowich Campus Center, the heart of campus activities.
The Collegiate Church of Christ the Teacher is the spiritual center of the Merrimack College community.
Mendel Center and the Moseley Wrought Iron Arch Bridge.
Whether it’s winter, spring, or anything in between, Merrimack’s beautiful campus is enjoyed by all.

Women’s and Gender Studies

The Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS) program is an interdisciplinary program that includes: women’s studies, feminist studies, gender studies, masculinity studies and sexuality studies. The program is committed to a multicultural curriculum that integrates diverse perspectives. Women’s and Gender Studies courses emphasize interactive learning in which student involvement, critical thinking, and personal insight are encouraged and made relevant in the learning process.

The Women’s and Gender Studies program at Merrimack College equips students with the analytic skills to integrate insights from a variety of fields enabling them to become conversant with a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches and apply them to the study of gender.

Women’s and Gender Studies students examine the social, cultural and scientific construction of gender; the dynamics of gender relations; processes of social change; and the intersection of gender with race, ethnicity, class, nation, and sexuality. Our program combines courses offered by faculty in the Women and Gender Studies Program and courses offered by affiliate faculty from 13 departments and programs across the Merrimack Campus.

Students select from courses that focus on cultural understandings and representations of gender, sex, race and ethnicity in film, media and advertising, gender and the law, cross cultural, global and historical characterizations of gender and gender movements, literary narratives about gender, economic aspects of gender and ethical, psychological, political and sociological dimensions of gender. Students in WGS can gain experience off-campus in courses that take learning out of the classroom into the field where students experience firsthand diverse cultures and landscapes in different areas like the desert southwest.

Gordene MacKenzie

Gordene MacKenzie - Women's and Gender Studies
Director, Associate Professor Dr. MacKenzie is conducting research for a book and filming a documentary on Evelyn Fite and ranching women and cowgirls in San Antonio, New Mexico. She also is the producer and host of GenderVision, an educational talk show broadcast on cable television about Gender Difference and Progressive Politics.