Recent MA Projects

Degree Last Name First Name Project Title Committee
MA Black Christina Beyond the Knapsack: Critical Approaches to Whiteness in the Women's Studies Curriculum Beth Ash (chair), Laura Micciche, and Miriam Raider-Roth
MA Campanello Kimberly Eroticism at the Intersections: "Bi" Sexuality's Queer Queer FurturitiesJana Braziel; Beth Ash, Amy Lind
MA Cleary Krystal When the Bike(r) Breaks Down: Masculinity and Disability in the American Motorcycle Subculture Amy Lind (chair), Lisa Hogeland, and Erynn Casanova
MA Gilmore Kayte When you got this dog with you…you feel superior to everyone else: Pit Bulls as Masculine Accessories Andrea Kornbluh (chair), Adrian Parr, and Amy Elder
MA Grubbs Jenny The Intersectionality of Oppression: A Feminist Inclusion of Speceisism Lisa Hogeland; Jane Anderson, Adrian Parr
MA/JD HoUnKyong And on the Sixth Day the WTO Created Monsanto: Market Fundamentalism, Intellectual Property and the Construction of Corporate "Reproductive" Rights Olga Sanmiguel-Valderrama; Emily Hough, Wendy Eisner,. Kim Paice
MA Hughes Jayme Queer(ing) Virginity: Destabilizing Hegemonic Narratives of First Sexual Experiences Deb Meem (chair), Amy Lind, and Wendy Kline
MA Landis Jessica Critiquing Gender Binary in the Discourse of Sexual Assault Prevention Strategies in Higher Education Adrian Parr (chair), Barbara Rinto, and Bonnie Fisher
MA Leising Bridget Teacher, May I play with Gender? On Queer(ing) Pedagogy and the Role of Gender Identity in Women's Studies ClassroomsMichelle Gibson; Vanessa Allen-Brown, Laura R. Micciche
MA Meek Jane Being Queer is the Luckiest Thing: Investigating Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Identities and Student Groups Amy Lind; Annulla Linders, James Koschoreck
MA/JD Mize Derek Towards a Queer Youth Jurisprudence on Student to Student Harassment in Schools Deborah Meem; Michelle Gibson, Ronna Schneider
MA Moore Randi "Rethinking Respectability," Black Women, Postcolonial Resistance and the Politics of Respectability Nikki Taylor;Sharon Dean, Amy Elder
MA Morgan Jessica A Pawn in the Chess Game: The United Nations Millenium Development Goals and the Trading Away of Reproductive Health Anne Runyan; Kelly Moore, Lisa Hogeland, Amy Lind
MA/JD Nicolosi Lisa Lethal Abjection: Capital Punishment and Interpellation of the Lesbian Killer Deborah Meem; Annulla Linders, Jennifer Kinsley
MA/JD Prasad Sarvani The Essential Obstacle: Black Homophobia, Homosexual Racism, and Proposition 8 Deborah Meem; Beth Ash, Jack Harrison
MA Ramirez-Marchena Silenny Resisting Trade Agreements: Women's Organized Responses to CAFTA in Costa Rica Amy Lind; Kelly Moore, Olga Sanmiguel-Valderrama
MA Strasinger RachelBeyond Protest: Radical Imagination and the Global Justice Movement Beth Ash; Kelly Moore, Lisa Hogeland
MA Zippin Angela A Place You All Made Together: A Feminist Oppositional Decoding of Lost Joshua Chambers-Letson (chair), Lisa Hogeland, and Andrea Kornbluh