Awards

SWS Stamp of Excellence in Gender & Feminist Studies

Our Graduate Program was recently recognized as the sixth most highly ranked department to receive the Stamp of Excellence in Gender & Feminist Studies from the Sociologists For Women in Society:

Recognizing the diverse subject matters involved in sociology, but also mindful of the central importance of scholarship on gender and inequality to a depth understanding of the social world and to creating a departmental climate that welcomes diversity, the SWS SEAL OF APPROVAL FOR GENDER SCHOLARSHIP is awarded to all those departments in which over 25 percent of the faculty name gender or inequality among their specialties.

Overall, a total of 24 departments, representing 21 percent of the sociology departments in the country, meet the standards for SWS approval in scholarship. The following departments win this seal (N=actual number of departmental faculty who study gender and/or inequality):

Syracuse University	54% N = 7
University of Nebraska- Lincoln	50% N = 6
University of Cincinnati	46% N = 5
Kansas State University	40% N = 4
University of California- Santa Barbara	37% N = 11
University of Kansas	35% N = 6
Georgia State University	35% N = 8
Brandeis University	33% N = 4
University of Nevada- Las Vegas	33% N = 5
University of California- Riverside	32% N = 6
University of Southern California	31% N = 5
Loyola University Chicago	31% N = 4
Rutgers, State University of New Jersey	30% N = 10
University of Massachusetts- Amherst	30% N = 6
State University of New York- Albany	29 % N = 5
University of Connecticut	29% N = 8
Vanderbilt University	29% N = 4
Ohio State University	27% N = 9
Purdue University	27% N = 6
State University of New York- Buffalo	27% N = 3
Iowa State University	27% N = 8
University of Maryland	27% N = 8
University of Pittsburgh	27% N = 4
Florida State University	26% N = 6

By contrast, 15 departments (13 percent) included not a single faculty member who listed gender as a research or teaching interest.

Report Card on Gender- and Women-Friendly Sociology Departments (Among PhD Granting Institutions)
Submitted to Sociologists For Women in Society (SWS) by: Sharon Hays and Barbara Risman with research by Evren Savci and Carey Sargent, University of Virginia, and Rena Cornell, North Carolina State University, August 2004