Gender Studies University of Cyprus

Inaugurated in 2012, in parallel with the Gender Studies Center and the Unesco Chair in Gender Equality, the PhD Program in Gender Studies is the only PhD program in women's studies in Cyprus. The goal of the Program is to equip graduates with the necessary knowledge, mind attitudes and research frames and skills that would enable them to grow into academic scholars and leading policy and political figures in the fields of gender, women's and sexuality studies. It aims to the integration of feminist theory, gender-focused research, and case-study experience; engagement in reflective learning on theories concerning the social, historical and discursive constitution of gender, sexuality and the axis gender/sexuality; investigation and interrogation in multiple fields of life of the ways patriarchy, misogyny and heteronormativity interrelate and work together in defining and regulating the private/public binary, kinship, sociality and social relations; analyzing from a gender perspective both suppressing and productive forms of power and biopolitics, in transnational and multicultural contexts; mapping and critically analyzing the rationalities of gender and their operation in the construction and disciplinarity of knowledge; applying gender and sexuality as categories of historical and social analysis; theorizing and applying in research and writing structural and political forms of intersectionality; engaging in critical feminist and/or queer genealogies of disciplines, epistemic certainties, canons, archives and policy frames in order to address silenced exclusions, entrenched certainties; foregrounding more inclusive, just and vital forms of knowledge, social organization and political solidarity.

The program further aims to deepen students' knowledge and expertise in research approaches employed for the study of gender and sexuality such as philosophy and theory, literary analysis, critical discourse analysis, policy analysis, ethnography, genealogy, with the ultimate goal of producing knowledge. The interdepartmental composition of the faculty and the partnership, both at the level of instruction and research, with international scholars and networks, encourages and fosters feminist, queer and intersectional research in and across fields of studies such as: to education studies, history, classics, literature, cultural studies, animal studies, philosophy, human rights, management and organization analysis, politics, and area studies such as postcolonial, critical race and globalization studies.

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