WGS 3500 - Chin 2025: Welcome
Welcome
Welcome to the UVA Library Portal for WGS 3500: Decolonial Feminist & Queer Historical Methods. This Portal links to some of the resources you'll be using in your research project for this course, and methods of contacting your librarians for support.
Your Librarian
Your Librarian is Erin Pappas
Each school/department at UVA is assigned a research librarian. 
Connect with Erin for help with your assignments. This service is available to all students. Meeting with a librarian early in your research process can help you save time and research more efficiently.
Erin can help with: locating academic sources, brainstorming research topics, developing search strategies, capstone/thesis/dissertation planning, identifying relevant databases/journals for your research and literature reviews, and citation management. Meetings take place online via Zoom.
Your Librarian
Your Librarian is Cecelia Parks.
Cecelia is a librarian who primarily works with undergraduate students, especially in first-year writing and the Engagements. She is also a scholar of Southern queer history and is excited to work with you on your projects for this class. Schedule an appointment using the button below, or email her at cecelia@virginia.edu.
Librarians can help with any part of your research process: brainstorming a research topic or question; creating a search strategy; finding, evaluating, and organizing your sources; integrating your sources in your writing; and creating appropriate citations. No question is too basic! Librarians can meet with you in-person or online via Zoom.
Ask a Librarian
Miscellaneous Research Tools
- Research LogYou can use this research log to keep track of the sources you find and how you found them.
- Download Zotero (Citation Management Software)Zotero is a free tool that can help you manage your sources and create in-text citations and bibliographies.
- Zotero tutorialThis tutorial walks you through downloading, setting up, and using Zotero.
Search Virgo
Search for academic articles
Academic databases contain peer-reviewed articles, scientific papers, reports, and more. These are some of the most frequently-used databases for WGS research.
- America: History & Life (1964-present) This link opens in a new windowCovers the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to present with records from 2,000 English-language journals published worldwide. Includes book reviews.
- Education Full Text (1983-present) This link opens in a new windowSearch for articles and reviews from English-language periodicals and yearbooks about all aspects of education. From 1994 has abstracts, from 1996 has full text of major articles from selected journals. See Education Index Retro for 1929-1983.
- LGBTQ+ Source This link opens in a new windowLGBT Life with Full Text is the definitive database for LGBT studies. It provides scholarly and popular LGBT publications in full text, plus historically important primary sources, including monographs, magazines and newspapers. It also includes a specialized LGBT thesaurus containing thousands of terms.
- Project MUSE This link opens in a new windowProject MUSE hosts more than 800 journals and more than 90,000 books covering the humanities and social sciences from nearly 400 leading university presses, scholarly societies, and related publishers.
- SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new windowSocINDEX with Full Text offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. These include abortion, criminology and criminal justice, demography, ethnic and racial studies, gender studies, marriage and family, political sociology, religion, rural and urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, sociological history, sociological research, sociological theory, substance abuse and other addictions, violence and many others.
- Women's Studies International This link opens in a new windowFind journal articles, books, conference proceedings, reports, theses & dissertations, documents and other materials on all aspects of women's studies.
Special Collections at UVA
The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library holds more than 16 million objects including manuscripts, archival records, rare books, maps, broadsides, photographs, audio and video recordings and more.
Collections are particularly strong in American and British literature, the history of Virginia and the southeastern United States, the history and archives of the University of Virginia, sporting books and manuscripts, World War I, bibliography and book arts (including fine press books, pop-up books, artists’ book, and typography).
We welcome you to visit Special Collections on the first floor of the Harrison Institute/Small Special Collections Library, one floor down from the main entrance. See current hours and a map of Library locations.