REGSS Vision Statement
As an academic unit at UW-Eau Claire, the Department of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (REGSS) coordinates intersectional teaching, research, and scholarship in the fields of critical Hmong studies, ethnic studies, women and gender studies, and LGBTQ studies. This is a unique academic program that incorporates feminist praxis – a practice informed by critical race and gender analyses.
REGSS is an interdisciplinary department that draws from the humanities, social sciences, arts, and natural sciences to examine lived experiences as they are impacted by and respond to systems of power/oppression. This interdisciplinary department incorporates critical methodologies and theories that provide students with the resources to employ intersectional and transnational analyses effectively while integrating theory with social justice activism.
In addition to developing critical feminist perspectives through their coursework and campus programming, our students apply theoretical frameworks learned in the classroom to real-life work and activist situations. Through their capstone seminar, all WGSS majors pursue an internship. During, they gain real-world experience by working with community non-profits.
Our core faculty, Dr. Ari Anand, Dr. Jo Kipgen, Dr. Rae Langes, and Dr. Kaozong Mouavangsou bring expertise in feminist and queer interdisciplinary and transnational scholarship to our department. Research and creative scholarship conducted by core faculty is reflected in their teaching and covers current, cutting-edge scholarship in the fields of Critical Hmong Studies, Ethnic Studies, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and LGBTQ Studies. Classes for our major, minor, and certificate programs equip students to critically analyze historical and current socio-political systems.
