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Students who concentrate in the University of Maryland History Department's Gender and Women's History field have the opportunity to undertake challenging coursework and pursue exciting research in gender history in collaboration with well-known scholars in the U.S., European, Latin American, East Asian, Middle Eastern, and African fields. Both graduate and undergraduate students of women's and gender history will find the program's intellectual support and scholarly resources to be without peer.

Students working in women's and gender history are members of a Department committed to excellence in teaching, research, and interdisciplinary scholarship.   They are also uniquely positioned to take advantage of the vibrant intellectual community of the University of Maryland, College Park, and the unparalleled governmental and non governmental resources of the Washington metropolitan region.