
What do you do? I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the Brown University School of Public Health.
How did the GNSS concentration shape your career? Completing the GNSS concentration as an undergraduate student at Brown prepared me to investigate issues of health and well-being from a critical, interdisciplinary, and intersectional…

What do you do? I am a PhD candidate in Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
How did the GNSS concentration shape your career? My GNSS concentration shaped how I approach epidemiologic research and population health. Courses in feminist theory taught me to interrogate power structures and to see each person as more than a data point, an essential perspective when analyzing…

What do you do? I am an Assistant Professor of English in the Composition, Rhetoric, and English Studies Program at the University of Alabama.
How did the GNSS concentration shape your career? The GNSS concentration opened both intellectual and professional doors for me. I took a first-year seminar called “Bodies Out of Bounds,” which introduced me to the interdisciplinary study of gender, race…

What do you do? I am the Manager of Academic Programs at the Institute of Fine Arts at NYU.
How did the GNSS concentration shape your career? My concentration in Gender and Sexuality Studies has been a great benefit to me in my professional life. I often joke that a degree in GNSS is a very “Brown” degree to get, but I firmly believe that my studies in the theories related to gender and sexuality honed…

What do you do? I am pursuing my PhD in Clinical Psychology at Harvard University.
How did the GNSS concentration shape your career? The GNSS concentration played a pivotal role in shaping my research interests in psychology. It helped me bridge disciplines by integrating perspectives on how social structures, norms, and contextual factors influence emotional development and mental health…

What do you do? I am an Associate Professor in the School of Social Welfare at the University of Kansas and the Director of the Center for LGBTQ+ Research and Advocacy.
How did the GNSS concentration shape your career? Through concentrating in GNSS, I fell in love with interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the world and engaging in social justice advocacy…

What do you do? I am a Professor of English and Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington.
How did the GNSS concentration shape your career? I majored in Women’s Studies when an undergraduate at Brown and returned at the end of my graduate studies to take up a postdoctoral fellowship at the Pembroke Center. My career as a feminist scholar and teacher…