Resources
Learn more about resources available in Merrimack College’s women’s and gender studies programs.
Field Studies and Internships: Learning Beyond the Classroom
Our students are encouraged to take their learning beyond the classroom walls, into the field, where they are mentored by their professors. We encourage fieldwork, internships and directed studies.
WGS Podcast
Living Out Loud: Storytelling for Social Change is the official podcast of Women’s and Gender Studies at Merrimack College and is hosted by the department’s chair and assistant professor Debra Michals.
Helpful Links
National and International Organizations
- AAUW American Association of University Women
- Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Incite: Women, Gender Non-Conforming, and Trans people of Color Against Violence
- International Gender Studies Project
- National Organization for Men Against Sexism
- National Organization for Women in Boston
- National Women’s Studies Association
- Women’s and Gender Studies Graduate Programs
- University LGBT Programs
- Women’s Rights/Human Rights
WGS Affiliated Student Groups
Additional Links for Majors and Minors
- Code Pink: Women for Peace
- Feminist Majority
- Feministing
- Intersex Society of North America
- Paul Kivel
- Transgender Law and Policy Institute
- United American Indians of New England
Partners in the Community
Some of the organizations and groups we have collaborated with include:
- Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico
- Anne Bradstreet community group in North Andover
- Bosque del Apache Nature Reserve in New Mexico
- Elena Ortiz – of Okay Owingeh (original name of San Juan Pueblo) Northern New Mexico- Southwest executive director of Road Scholar and Vice Chair of the Alfonso Ortiz Center, UNM
- Fite Ranch in San Antonio, New Mexico
- Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition
- Merrimack People for Peace
- Navajo Nation in New Mexico and Utah
- Ramson Lomatewama, Hopi Pueblo artist, teacher
- Red Hats in North Andover
- Stephanie and Matthew Mitchell- Environmentalists and SW Jewelers in New Mexico
- The Gallup Cultural Center in New Mexico
- The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in New Mexico
- Zuni Pueblo in New Mexico
Selected national conferences and events we have helped co-sponsor:
- Eighth Annual Women and Policy Symposium, Lawrence, Massachusetts
- Northern Lights Film Festival, Newburyport, Massachusetts
- The International Transpolitics, Social Change and Justice Conference, City University of New York University
- Transgender Film Festival, Provincetown, Massachusetts
- Transecting the Academy, National conference at Brown University
