The M.A. Program in Cultural Analysis and Social Theory (CAST) has been designed to further the interests of those students whose research and academic interests extend beyond the boundaries of single disciplines in science or humanities programs.

CAST focuses on analyzing culture and theorizing the social from an interdisciplinary and a multidisciplinary perspective, and brings together faculty with interdisciplinary and social science backgrounds, and theoretical and methodological commitments to the creative and critical ways of exploring reality that cultural analysis constitutes.

Our three full-time Women and Gender Studies members, Dr. Shahnaz Khan, Dr. Margaret Toye and Dr. Robert Diaz, are core members of the MA in CAST program.  The research and teaching projects of many of the other core faculty members in CAST are also informed by feminist, gender, and Women and Gender Studies oriented theories and methodologies.  A number of students holding a BA in Women and Gender Studies have gone on to complete an M.A. in CAST.