An international university with students from some 100 countries and faculty from more than 40, CEU offers small, seminar-style courses and a student/faculty ratio of 7:1. CEU is accredited in the United States and Hungary.
CEU’s Department of Gender Studies attracts students from a range of disciplines in the social sciences and humanities, and focuses on integrative and comparative approaches to gender studies. Programs aim to critically examine past and present developments related to gender in culture and society. The curriculum in the department emphasizes interdisciplinary scholarship, such as gender and post-socialist studies, nationalism, queer theory, cultural studies, transnationalism, and international political movements.
Programs Offered
- Master of Arts in Gender Studies (One Year)
- Master of Arts in Critical Gender Studies (Two Years)
- Joint European Master’s Degree in Women’s and Gender Studies—GEMMA (Two Years)
- European Master’s Degree in Women’s and Gender History—MATIL DA (Two Years)
- Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative Gender Studies
Selected Areas of Research
- Globalization and postcolonialism
- Gender, nation, and state
- Labor market gender inequalities
- Queer theory
- Feminist theories and epistemology
- Gender and former state socialist societies
- Bioethics, biopolitics, and posthumanism
- Women’s literature
- Women’s history
