Travel Grants

• Lika Balenović: Lika Balenović is a doctoral candidate in comparative literature whose research focuses on French and English-language speculative feminist thought (philosophy and fiction) at the intersection of sex, gender, labor, and reproduction. Her specialty is in later twentieth to twenty-first century work with a particular interest in the philosophy and fiction of French feminist scholar, Monique Wittig, and her influence on American feminist thought, queer theory, and speculative fiction (1970s–present).
• Candace Hansen: Candace Hansen is a PhD candidate, drummer, educator, journalist, scholar, artist, and event producer currently studying and teaching at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and the UCLA Department of Gender Studies, writing for LA Times, Spin, and Los Angeles Magazine, and drumming for Alice Bag, dimber, Reckoner, and the Josie Wreck Noise Ensemble. Hansen believes in the power and potential of writing about culture, especially queer culture, as a tool of healing, recognition, and care that can push conversations from the critical lens of a fan writing for a more just world. Their forthcoming dissertation is rooted in their life as a queer punk drummer and explores how DIY trans and queer punk music and approaches to music-making are life-giving endeavors in dissonant time that exist in opposition to oppressive conditions and capitalist aesthetics.
• Nathan Hoffmann: Nathan Hoffmann is a PhD candidate in sociology and MS student in statistics at UCLA. He studies how state policies and other national institutions affect the decisions and well-being of immigrants. One thread of his research studies how changing state policies affect queer people’s decisions to migrate and form same-sex partnerships. In a second thread of research, he studies how migration and education policies interact to shape the educational outcomes of young migrants. He has published articles in Social Forces, International Migration Review, and other venues.
• Emily Kaner: Emily Kaner is a doctoral student at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health in the Department of Community Health Sciences. Her research prioritizes critical and feminist approaches to public health, with interests in the intersection of health and place, structural determinants of health, and understanding how work shapes health and wellbeing. Her previous qualitative and mixed-methods research explored how social and environmental factors influenced substance use and harm reduction practices. Kaner holds a master’s degree in city planning and a master’s degree in public health from the University of California, Berkeley.
• Delaney Knorr: Delaney Knorr (she/her) is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology interested in the intersections of race, health, and motherhood. Her dissertation explores the biological embodiment of discrimination on the placenta (a major factor in obstetric health disparities) as well as perinatal resilience factors.
• Rebeca Martínez-Tibbles: Rebeca Martínez-Tibbles is a history PhD candidate at UCLA, specializing in women in Colonial Mexico, race and religion, marriage, and the Atlantic World. Her current dissertation project explores how women used bigamy to form companionate marriages in a Roman Catholic society that denied individuals the right to divorce. Rebeca argues that bigamy offered women an opportunity for a better matrimonial life. She examines how honor and race influenced the trials of women, as well as how these characteristics affected why women committed bigamy. Rebeca has received numerous awards, fellowships, and grants, including the Fulbright Hays-DDRA Fellowship. Her dissertation project was made possible by this award, which allowed her to conduct archival studies in Mexico City, Mexico, and Seville, Spain.
• NaaKoshie Mills: NaaKoshie Mills is a PhD candidate in anthropology at UCLA and lecturer at Howard University. Her dissertation research examines the impact of race and racism in US foreign policymaking toward Sub-Saharan Africa, with a focus on the diplomatic lives of Black American career officers in the Department of State.
• Lori Pirinjian: Lori Pirinjian (she/her) is a PhD student in the UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures specializing in Armenian studies. Pirinjian’s research at UCLA centers around the 2017 domestic-violence law in Armenia and its representation of the ideological fluctuation being experienced by this state.
• Ludmila Porto: Ludmila Porto is a third-year PhD student at the Department of Gender Studies. Her research focuses on how knowledge is produced and transmitted through activism supported by transnational feminist networks based in the US, Brazil, and the Caribbean. She examines how activism responds to shared intersecting oppression in the Americas through the building of transnational feminist solidarities. Porto holds a master’s degree and a PhD in linguistics from the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. For the last few years, she has taught, researched, and published in applied linguistics, discourse analysis, and gender studies.
• Nicole Prucha: Nicole Prucha is a PhD Candidate in the Department of English at UCLA. A scholar of affect theory, queer of color critique, and performance studies, she studies the role of loss in queer survival and kinship formations. Her dissertation explores how minoritarian subjects embody and perform feelings of lostness, loneliness, and longing in order to imagine something else. Her work is heavily informed by her own experiences as a multiracial queer woman and is indebted to José Muñoz, Alice Walker, Nina Simone, and her mother.
• Anna Robinson-Sweet: Anna Robinson-Sweet is a third-year PhD candidate in the Department of Information Studies. Her dissertation research studies how communities impacted by incarceration create and use archives to imagine and enact abolitionist futures. As a scholar, organizer, and archivist, Robinson-Sweet seeks to uplift liberatory memory work. Robinson-Sweet is a graduate student researcher with the UCLA Community Archives Lab and organizes with the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition and Prison Library Support Network. Her research has been published in Archivaria, American Archivist, and Journal for Contemporary Archival Studies.
• Brenda Wang: Brenda Wang is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at UCLA. She is currently completing her dissertation, “Blindfold, Bandage: Beauty Projects in 20th Century Visions of Asiatic Racial Form,” which explores beauty as an embodied cultural project by which questions of desire, gender, and racial belonging are adjudicated. She received her BA in English literature from the University of Pennsylvania and her MPhil in modern and contemporary literature at the University of Cambridge. At UCLA, she has been the recipient of the Cota-Robles Fellowship.
• Rebecca Woofter: Rebecca Woofter is a PhD candidate in community health sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. She holds a bachelor’s degree in history and political science from Emory University and a master of public health in epidemiology and biostatistics from Washington University in St. Louis. Her research focuses on inequities in reproductive and maternal health, particularly access to and quality of reproductive healthcare. Her dissertation uses quantitative and qualitative methods to examine mental health and healthcare during pregnancy and postpartum.
• Wei Si Nic Yiu 姚煒詩 : Wei Si Nic Yiu 姚煒詩 (they/them) is a PhD candidate in gender studies at UCLA and a graduate of the Women and Gender Institute Master’s program at the University of Toronto, Canada. Their broad research interests include gender and migration, theories of care, queer theory, and Women of Color feminisms. Yiu’s current research project explores Chinese massage workers’ experience in the United States. Their work is informed and inspired by their own experiences of migration and care work as a queer Asian person in Hong Kong, Beijing, Toronto, and now Los Angeles.

View all 2023-2024 Award Recipients.

• Lauren Baczewski, Human Development and Psychology
• Sonya Brooks, PhD student, Health and Well-Being of Black girls
• Joana Chavez, Chicana/o and Central American studies
• Abbie Cohen, Urban Schooling Division
• Trinity Gabato, Asian American Studies
• Nohely Guzman, Geography
• Brenda Selena Lara, Chicana/o and Central American Studies
• Rebekka Michaelsen, History
• Pallavi Rudraraju, Asian American studies
• Supraja Saravanakumar, Community Health Sciences
• Laura Smith, World Arts and Cultures/Dance
• Jordan Thomas,  Clinical Psychology
• Yun-Pu Yang, Theater and Performance Studies

Read about the 2022-2023 CSW|Streisand Center Award Recipients on our blog.

Fall 2021

• Jeanette Charles, History, History of Resistance, Revolution, and African Traditional Religions in Contemporary Venezuela
• Nicola Chavez Courtright, Anthropology, My Catwalk is the Streets: LGBTQ Political Emotions Under Salvadoran Populism
• Jessica Fremland, Gender Studies, Aesthetic Relationalities: Visual, Kinesthetic, and Sonic Resistance in the Remembrance of the Dakota War of 1862
• Alana de Hinojosa, Chicana/o and Central American Studies, Unruly Terrains of Struggle: Women-lead Barrio Activism during the Chamizal Land Dispute
• Kourtney Kawano, Education, Situating the Place of Kanaka ʻŌiwi Feminist Epistemology through Critical Feminist Literature
• Kira Maszewski, African American Studies, Black Women, Ultra-Processed Foods, and Heart Disease in the Los Angeles Area: A Longitudinal Cohort Study
• Slaveya Minkova, Cinema and Media Studies, Queer Gesture and Postsocialist Aesthetics in Levan Akin’s “And Then We Danced”

Spring 2022

• Charlotte Abel, Sociology, Reproductive Futurism During COVID-19
• Dani Heffernan, Anthropology, Changing Voices, Challenging Listeners: Trans Women Speakers’ Ideologies of Voice Modification and Perception
• Oraison Larmon, Information Studies, Trans Figural Records in Kiyan Willams’ Reflections
• Sara Schiff, Clinical Psychology, Peer Independent and Interactive Associations with Conduct Problems in Girls
• Gabriela Valencia, Education, The title of my conference paper is Miss Behave: Latina Sexual Citiznehsip in K-16 Educational Ecosystems
• Anna Watts, Playwriting, A List of Happenings at 1016 14th St. (Not Necessarily in Chronological Order)

Learn more about the 2021-2022 award recipients on our blog.

Fall 2020

• Zheyu Liang, Theater, Film and Television, Mother Love
• Bethany Murray, Social Welfare, A Case Study of Black-led Organizing in Minneapolis
• Indira Somani, Theater, Film and Television, Advance Film
• Cecilia Su’a, Asian American Studies, Return to Home: Studying Samoan Immigration and How Perceptions of the Homeland and the US are Affected

Learn more about the 2020-2021 award recipients on our blog.

Fall 2019

• Sarah Alkhaifi-Gonzalez, Nursing, Breast Cancer Screening Practices Among Immigrant Arab Women
  • Blog Post: Mammogram Screening Among Arab American Women
• Jennifer Cárcamo, History, Eternos Indocumentados: Central American Refugees in the United States
• Lia Cohen, International Development Studies, Sexual Harassment and Occupational Segregation: The Impact of Sexual Harassment on Women in Male-Dominated, Middle-Skilled Jobs
  • Blog Post: Sexual Harassment and Occupational Segregation: The Impact of Sexual Harassment on Women in the Trades
• Jaimie Crumley, Gender Studies, Freedom Feelings: Womanism, Black Feminism, and the Politics of Black Liberation
  • Blog Post: The Spirit of Revolution: One African American Woman’s Contribution to Abolitionism and Proto-Black Feminism in 1830s Boston, Massachusetts
• Jacqueline Davis, World Arts and Cultures/Dance, All the Stars in the Sea
• Zizi Li, Film, TV, and Digital Media, Controversies around Naomi ‘Sexy Cyborg’ Wu 机械妖姬: Transnational Feminist Encounters and its Digital Updates

Spring 2020

• Esther Claudio, Spanish and Portuguese, Antonio Altarriba’s El ala rota and Ana Penyas’s Estamos todas bien: A Gender Approach to Historical Memory
• Zama Dube, Theater, Film and Television, Liberatory Black Feminist Aesthetics: Envisioning a Decolonial Visual  Representation of “Blackwomanhood”
• Madison Felman-Panagotacos, Spanish and Portuguese, Latin American Transnational Feminisms in Times of #Me Too: Mobilizing Resistance throughout the Americas
• Mariam Rahmani, Comparative Literature, Gender in Translation: Posing the Question of the Queer via Contemporary Iran
• Tyrrell Shaffner, Theater, Film, and Television, The Dropout
• Heidi S. West, Health Policy and Management, Are wives of migrants in rural Bangladesh really “Left Behind”? A nuanced analysis of how spousal migration affects women’s healthcare utilization and mental, social, and general health

Fall 2018

• Clementine Bordeaux, World Arts and Cultures/Dance, ArtEquity – Art, Equity, Activism (CSW Awards 2019)
  • Blog Post: ArtEquity and Indigenous Conversations
• Magally Miranda, Chicana/o Studies, Tidy: A Case Study of Social Reproduction in the Gig Economy (CSW Awards 2019)
  • Blog Post: Domestic Workers: The Original Gig Workers
• Josephine Ong, Asian American Studies, The Colonial Boundaries of Exilic Discourse: Contextualizing Mabini’s Incarceration in Guåhan (CSW Awards 2019)
  • Blog Post: (Re)mapping Filipino Settler Claims to Place in Guåhan
• Amr Shahat, Archaeology, Archaeologies of diversity and interaction in Ancient Egypt (CSW Awards 2019)
• Tony Wei Ling, English, Disposable Fictions in Jamie Berrout’s Incomplete Stories and Essays (CSW Awards 2019)
  • Blog Post: Speculative-Speculative Fiction: Jamie Berrout’s Impossible Trans Literatures

Spring 2019

• Myra Jon Aquino, Theater, Film, and Television, Gender, Resistance, and Revolution in World War II Philippines (CSW Awards 2019)
• Elizabeth Dayton, Gender Studies, Nothing About Us Without Us: How Sex Workers are Shaping Their Own Narratives (CSW Awards 2019)
• Allison Fisher, Medicine, Mechanism of Adverse Interaction Between Iron and Inflammation During Pregnancy (CSW Awards 2019)
  • Blog Post: Rethinking Iron Supplementation During Pregnancy
• Kersti Francis, English, Reassembling Romance: Genre and Genre in Partonope of Blois (CSW Awards 2019)
• I-Chun (Jennifer) Lin, Epidemiology, Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Infection and Related Knowledge among Males in Taiwan: a comparison between heterosexual males and men who have sex with men (MSM) (CSW Awards 2019)
  • Blog Post: Dermatologists Are Deeply Into Skin but Dermatology Is Not Just Skin Deep
• Nada Ali Ramadan, Sociology, Gendered Transitions: the Case of Syrians’ Forced Migration to Egypt (CSW Awards 2019)
• Christine Vega, GSEIS, Mothers of Color in Academia: Fierce Mothering Challenging Spatial Exclusion Through a Chicana Feminist Praxis (CSW Awards 2019)

Fall 2017

• Hena Ashraf, Theatre, Film and Television, Kreuzberg (CSW Awards 2018)
  • Blog Post: Portraying Migrant Lives in Film
• Gracen Brilmyer, GSEIS, A Political/Relational Archival Approach: Applying Disability Studies’ Political/Relational to Archival Studies (CSW Awards 2018)
  • Blog Post: Why Disability Studies for Archives?
• Adva Gadoth, Epidemiology, Local risk factors of urogenital schistosomiasis amongst pregnant women in Kisantu Health Zone, Democratic Republic of the Congo (CSW Awards 2018)
• Rocío Garcia, Sociology, The Politics of Erased Migrations: Expanding a Rational, Intersectional Sociology of Latinx Gender and Migration (CSW Awards 2018)
  • Blog Post: Resisting the Violence of Ideology
• Adriana Guarro, Italian, Making Visible What Wasn’t: Portraying Female Friendship in the Epic (CSW Awards 2018)
  • Blog Post: Women’s Portrayals of Friendship in Renaissance Italy
• Johanna Kirk, World Arts and Cultures/Dance, Understanding the Pregnant Body through the Language of Prenatal Dance Fitness (CSW Awards 2018)
  • Blog Post: Reshaping the form and phenomenon of the pregnant body via prenatal dance fitness

Spring 2018

• Jessica Cook, English, George Eliot Study Week (CSW Awards 2018)
  • Blog Post: George Eliot’s Fraught Feminism
• Lillian Lu, English, Assuming Innocence: the Ingénue’s Vehicle for Satire in Frances Burney’s Evelina (CSW Awards 2018)
  • Blog Post: Innocence as a Vehicle for Female-Led Satire
• Stephanie Lumsden, Gender Studies, What’s in a Name?: An Examination of Historians’ Reluctance to Use the Word Slavery in the Context of California Indian Genocide (CSW Awards 2018)
  • Blog Post: What’s in a Name?: An Examination of Historians’ Reluctance to Use the Word Slavery in the Context of California Indian Genocide
• Sara Murdock, World Arts and Cultures, The Future of Education in Action: Aligning ideas with the world’s needs (CSW Awards 2018)
  • Blog Post: What’s identity got to do with schooling? Infinite Intersectionality within Quality Education
• Mariam Rahmani, Comparative Literature, What to do when sexuality doesn’t translate? The Pitfalls of Pronouns and Other Questions (CSW Awards 2018)
  • Blog Post: An excerpt from Mahsa Mohebali’s Negarān nabāsh (Don’t Worry), translated by Mariam Rahmani
• Veronika Rozhenkova, Education, Targeting Girls’ Education and Empowerment in Uganda (CSW Awards 2018)
• Jessica Shropshire, Psychology, Brief Exposure to Male vs. Female Dominated Groups Affect Visual Perceptions of Individuals Within the Group (CSW Awards 2018)
  • Blog Post: More than a Feminine Face: Gendered Perceptions of Women in Male-Dominated Academic Fields
• Melissa Whitley, Gender Studies, “My House…it’s Like a Tornado:” Black Women Mobilizing Against Subprime Foreclosure in Baltimore (CSW Awards 2018)
• Wendi Yamashita, Gender Studies, #VigilantLove: Grassroots Mobilizations of Japanese American World War II Memories (CSW Awards 2018)

Fall 2016

• Carla Kekejian, Human Development and Psychology, Armenian Women’s Sign Language
  • Blog Post: Harsneren: Language of the Armenian Bride
• Domale Keys, Education & Information Studies, Ogoni Women of Nigeria in the US: Migrating a Movement
• Natalia Konstantinovskaia, Asian Languages and Cultures, Women’s Appropriation of Male Language in Japanese and Russian Societies
  • Blog Post: Being Kawaii in Japan
• Stephanie Lumsden, Gender Studies, Land is not a Commodity: How the Commodification of Land Enables the Prison Industrial Complex
  • Blog Post: From Wilderness to Raw Material: How the Dispossession of Native Land Enables the Prison Industrial Complex
• Sayantan Mukhopadhyay, Art History, To Sir, With Love: Bhupen Khakhar at the Tate Modern
  • Blog Post: To Sir, With Love: Bhupen Khakhar at the Tate, London
• Shena Sanchez, Urban Schooling, Tracking and Discipline Shape the College-Going Engagement of Urban Girls of Color
  • Blog Post: Research, Mesearch: Educating Urban Black and Brown Girls
• Wakako Suzuki, German Literature and Japanese Literature, The Silenced Voice of the Modern Girl in Mizoguchi Kenji’s The Water Magician: Examining the Role of Women in Early Japanese Cinema
  • Blog Post: The Silenced Voice of the Modern Girl
• Emily Taing, International Development Studies and Asian American Studies, Cambodian Women and Remembering Across Generations: Refugees, Trauma, and Resilience
  • Blog Post: Trauma and Community Resilience Among Cambodian and Cambodian American Women in the US

Spring 2017

• Megan Baker, American Indian Studies, Promised Zone: Choctaw Economic Development & Political Ascendency in Oklahoma (CSW Awards 2017)
• Jennifer Blaney, Higher Education and Organizational Change, Examining the Relationship Between Introductory Computing Course Experiences, Self-Efficacy, and Belonging Among First-Generation College Women (CSW Awards 2017)
  • Blog Post: Decoding the Narrative on Women in Computing: A Case for Interdisciplinary Inquiry
• Elizabeth Dayton, Gender Studies, Nothing About Us Without Us: How Sex Workers are Shaping Their Own Narratives (CSW Awards 2017)
  • Blog Post: Lucid Noon, Sunset Blush: Femme Supremacy and the Politics of Wandering
• Rocio Garcia, Sociology, Sociology: Ideological Violence in the Political Borderlands: Historicizing Latinx Controlling Images (CSW Awards 2017)
  • Blog post: Imagining Utopias: Towards Latinx Feminist Thought
• Bianca Haro, Urban Schooling, The Role of Familial Female Capital in the Lives of Black and Latino Male (CSW Awards 2017)
  • Blog post: The Role of Women in the Lives of High Achieving Black and Latino Men
• Monique Magdaleno, Political Science, Internship at the National Women’s Law Center (CSW Awards 2017)
• Tiffany Naiman, Musicology, Selling Sex From Over the Hill: Madonna and the Vulnerability of Female Aging in Popular Music (CSW Awards 2017)
• Diana Porras, Urban Schooling, Latina Mothers of English Learners as Policymakers? Barriers and Opportunities toward Critical Participation in LCAP (CSW Awards 2017)

Fall 2015

• Hannah Carlan, Linguistic Anthropology, Proud to be Indian, Terrified as an Indian Woman: Violence, Culture, and Nation on Social Media in India
  • Blog Post: Beyond “Culture”: Feminist Activism in India since 2012
• Nury Chavez, Gender Studies, Sexual Harassment in Public Places: An Analysis of Latina’s Experience and Perspectives (CSW Awards 2016)
• Min Joo Lee, Gender Studies, Welcome to Korea: Television Dramas, Traveling, and Feminist Re-imagination of National Boundary
  • Blog Post: Finding the Romance of Everyday Locales through Fan-Tourists’ Gaze
• Jeffrey Roy, Ethnomusicology, Ethnomusicology of the Closet: The Ritual and Performance of ‘Coming Out’ at a Hijra Jalsa
  • Blog Post: Music and India’s Hijra Community
• Gwyneth Shanks, Theatre and Performance Studies, The Photographic Sphere: Spray Paint LACMA and Sighting a Chicana Public
  • Blog Post: Spheres of Debate
• Preeti Sharma, Gender Studies, Affective and Intimate Labor in LA’s South Asian Threading Salons (CSW Awards 2016)
• Nefertiti Takla, History, Marriage and Precarity in Interwar Egypt: The Gender, Sexual, and Class Politics of Nation-Building
  • Blog Post: Murder in Alexandria: The Gender, Sexual and Class Politics of Criminality in Egypt, 1914 – 1921
• Sharon Tran, English, The Political Aesthetics of Kawaii: On Asian Cuteness, Disability, and Affect
  • Blog Post: Hello Kitty Love/Hate: On Asian Cuteness, Disability, and Affect
• Alexandra Verini, English, ‘A New Kingdom of Femininity’: Medieval and Early Modern Female Alliance and Utopia
  • Blog Post: Spiritual Utopias: Researching Early Women’s Convents
• Melissa Whitley, Gender Studies, The Loan Forgiveness of Widows of Color: Anti-Black Financial Violence during the Subprime Foreclosure Crisis (CSW Awards 2016)

Spring 2016

• Roanna Cheung, History, Flower Market: Representations of Working Women in Early Twentieth Century South China (CSW Awards 2016)
• Lina Chun, Gender Studies, Asian American Critique and Feminist Interventions: Re-reading the Psychosomatic Register and Hauntings in the Afterlife of the Cambodian Genocide (CSW Awards 2016)
• Rebecca DiBennardo, Sociology, From Pervert to Predator: Defining and Regulating the Sexually Violent Predator in California
  • Blog Post: Sex offenders are among the most harshly punished criminals in the state, but how often does the punishment fit the crime?
• Melissa Melpignano, World Arts and culture/Dance, Representation of femininity and women in Israeli society through the work of Israeli female choreographers (CSW Awards 2016)
• Esha Momeni, Gender Studies, Iranian Shi’i Collective Mourning Rituals: Negotiating Power at the Intersection of Shi’ism, Nationalism, and Popular (CSW Awards 2016)
• Catherine Nguyen, Comparative Literature, Migrating, Finding, Locating Little Saigons: Feminine Displacement and Memories in Baloup’s Little Saigon (CSW Awards 2016)
• Cassia Roth, History, He Said, She Said: Abortion Rumors and Power in Early-Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Blog Post: He Said, She Said: Abortion Denunciations and Male Power in Turn-of-the-Century Rio de Janeiro

Fall 2014

• Amanda Bailey, Anthropology, Trauma Stories and Transformations: Situating Turning-Point Narratives by Female Tribal College Students
• Sevi Bayraktar, World Arts and Cultures, Hip Hop with Darbuka: New Artistic Genres in Gentrified Istanbul
• Anne Fehrenbacher, Community Health Sciences/Public Health, Determinants of consistent condom use among sex workers in India
• Kimberly Mack, English, Dissertation research about black blueswomen
• Jennifer Monti, Spanish and Portuguese, “Sab, la mujer, y la esclavitud: cinco preguntas (y respuestas) para refuter el genero abolicionista”
• Alessandra Williams, World Arts and Cultures, Choreographing Decolonized Labor: The Social Movements of REALITY, Ananya Dance Theatre, and HIRE Minnesota in the Settler Colonial U.S.

Spring 2015

• Ariana Bell, Psychology, Healthy Implications of Intersectional Approaches to Race, Sexual Identity, and Gender Identity and Expression
• Brianna Goodale, Psychology, Stifling silence: How failure to confront increases stereotype threat among women in STEM
• Kathleen Lehman, High Education and Organizational Change, Understanding the Role of Faculty in the Computer Science Gender Gap
• Chantiri Resendiz, Chicano/a Studies, Coming Out of the Shadows: Queering Activist Performances, Finding Disruptions, and Letting the Wild Tongues Speak in the Immigrant Rights Movement
• Rosaleen Rhee, Musicology, Fatalistic Audiovisual Representation of AIDS in the Korean Popular Music Video “Loving Memory”
• Adelle Sanna, Italian, Mythic Revisionism in Sirene (Sirens) by Laura Pugno
• David Schieber, Sociology, Money, Morals, and Condom Use: The Politics of Health in the Adult Film Industry
• Preeti Sharma, Gender Studies, The Thread Between Them: Race, Gender, and Intimacy in Los Angeles’ South Asian Threading Salons
• Gitanjali Singh, Gender Studies, Desire, Sexuality and Bodies: Mothers and Daughters in Stockton, California
• Monica Streifer, Italian, Historical Revisionism on the Modern Italian Stage: Anna Banti’s Corte Savella (1960)
• Sharon Tran, English, The Senecan Lair: Art, Multitude, and the Oriental Captive Girl
• Anndretta Wilson, Theater and Performance Studies, Refusing to Serve: The Gospel Music Performance of Marion Williams
• Adriane Wynn, Health Policy Management/Public Health, A study to assess the acceptability and feasibility of screening and treatment of curable sexually transmitted infections during antenatal care at Princess Marina Hospital

Fall 2013

• Britt Ahlstrom, Psychology, The Influence of Socioeconomic Status on Women’s Eating Behavior and Health
• Amanda Apgar, Gender Studies, The Colonial Logics of Gendered and Racialized Subject Production in Israel and Palestine
• Julia Callander, English, Contagation, Circulation, and Closet in Arthur Mervyn
• Lina Chhun, Gender Studies, Towards a Critical Paradigm of Silence, Trauma, and the Body: Feminism and Affective Archives of Violence
• Nanar Khamo, French/Francophone Studies, C’est moi, moi seul: The Narrator’s Desire to Become Both Mother and Writer in Le Sari vert
• Savannah Kilner, Gender Studies, Femmephobia, Transmisogyny, and the Fictions of Queer Arrival
• Mzilikazi Kone, Political Science, Sex Worker Organizing in San Jose, Costa Rica
• Ryan Koons, Ethnomusicology, Through the Lens of a Baroque Opera: Gender/Sexuality Then and Now
• Patricia Morena, Psychology, Positive Affect Prospectively Predicts Decrease in Inflammatory Marker in Breast Cancer Survivors
• Catherine Nguyen, Comparative Literature, The Forgotten and the Disappeared: Missing the Vietnamese Immigrant in Contemporary Vietnamese Francophone Literature

Spring 2014

• Carolyn Abrams, Urban Planning, A Forgotten Dimension: The Significance of Power Dynamics in Assessing Female Employment and Empowerment in Urban Bangladesh
• Vincent Allen, Psychology, Examining the relationship between substance use and sexual risk behavior among low socioeconomic status Black men who have sex with men
• Skye Allmang, Social Welfare, Regulating the “Domestication” of Public Spaces in Mexico City: Lessons for Los Angeles
• Rebecca DiBennardo, Sociology, Understanding Racial and Ethnic Differences in Contraceptive Use Patterns in The Contemporary United States
• Ana Luna, Urban Planning, A Forgotten Dimension: The Significance of Power Dynamics in Assessing Female Employment and Empowerment in Urban Bangladesh
• Cassia Roth, History, Murdering Mothers: Infanticide, Reproduction, and the Law in Rio de Janeiro

Fall 2012

• Vincent Allen, Jr., Psychology, Depression and identity-related stigma among Black bisexual men living with HIV
• Hsin-Chieh Chang, Community Health Sciences, The Triple Vulnerabilities of Age, Gender, and Class: Vietnamese Marriage Migrants Negotiating Social Recognition in Homeland and at Destinations of Immigration
• Megan Lorraine Debin, Art History, Bloody Body Doubles: Performance Against Violence in the Borderlands
• Jessica Martinez, Gender Studies, “Together We Thrives”: Discourses of Nationalism and Grief in the Wake of the Tucson Shooting
• Michael Nicholson, English, A Singular Experiment: The Creature as Feminist Scientist in Frankenstein
• Cassia Roth, History, Reproduction and the Limits of Democracy in Republican Brazil and Embodied Citizenship: Women’s Reproductive Practices and State Formation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1889-1930
• Benissa Salem, Nursing, At a Crossroads: Reentry Challenges and Healthcare Needs Among Homeless Female Ex-Offenders
• Elena Shih, Sociology, Governing Trafficking in Persons: Localizing Anti-Trafficking Policy in China and Thailand and The New Sex Trafficking: Moral Economies of Rescue

Spring 2013

• Naazneen Diwan, Gender Studies, Rewriting the Self: Muslim Women’s Expressions of State Violence, Healing and Justice in Gujarat, India
• Christina Larson, Psychology, Do Hormonal Contraceptives Alter Women’s Mate Choice and Relationship Functioning? Hypothesized Mechanism of Action
• Jacob Lau, Gender Studies, Sistership as Survival: Looking after Sylvia, Marsha, Queens and Exile
• Xi Song, Sociology, Educational Mobility in Multiple Generations: A Two-Sex Approach
• Claribel Valdovinos, Latin American Studies, Did You See What She is Wearing?: Fashion, Factories, and Femicide

Fall 2011

• Ellen Rae Cachola, Information Studies, Building a Secretariat from the Ground Up: The Case of the International Women’s Network Against Militarism
• Ann Fehrenbacher, Community Health Sciences, First, do no harm: Designing a model of trauma-informed care for survivors of human trafficking
• Nicole Goude, World Arts & Cultures, Jennie Ross Cobb, Cherokee Photographer
• Jeffrey Roy, Ethnomusicology, Invisible Goddesses: Identity Performance in Hijra Music and Dance
• Nefertiti Takla, History, Gender Violence and the Development of Modern Egyptian Patriarchy, 1882 – 1939
• Ravneet Tiwana, Education Studies, How Does Social Science Research Become Part of a Researcher’s Spiritual Journey?
• Alessandra Williams, World Arts & Cultures/Dance, African Young Women’s Personal Narratives of Land Restitution in South Africa

Spring 2012

• Kyoko Aoki, Information Studies, Inside/Outside Arts-in-Corrections: Using Oral History to Contextualize Community Collections in Institutional Archives
• Devin Flaherty, Anthropology, Imagining the Family, Imagining the Self: What Genetic Disclosure Can Tell Us about Identity, Closeness, and Kinship
• Tara McKay, Sociology, Assessing the emergence of same-sex sexualities as a global health priority: Social processes and new directions for research
• Caitlin Patler, Sociology, Undocumented, Unafraid and Unapologetic: Undocumented Youth, Civil Disobedience, and Redefining Belonging
• Adrienne Posner, Comparative Literature, The Temporality of Melancholia: Queer Thought in Our ‘Post-9/11 World’
• Nicole Robinson, Italian, Preliminary dissertation research at the Centro Studi Joyce Lussu in Porto San Giorgio, Italy and at the commemorative conference in honor of the 100th anniversary of Joyce Lussu’s birth
• Courtney Ryan, Theater & Performance Studies, Ecofeminism and Eco-Management in Personal Landscapes and A Pack of Forests

Fall 2010

• Tristan Inagaki, Psychology, An fMRI Investigation of the Provision of Social Support
• Christie Nittrouer, Theater & Performance Studies, Den Internationella Kvinnodagen (International Women’s Day Stand-up)
• Rana Sharif, Women’s Studies, Women in Conflict Zones: Memory and Violence-Militarized, Heroic Lives, and the Everyday
• Maya Smukler, Film, Television & Digital Media, Liberating Hollywood: Female Directors in the 1970s
• Maya Stiller, Asian Languages and Cultures, The Contestation of Sacred Space- About the Religious and Political Significance of a Female Mountain Deity in Korea

Spring 2011

• Roanna Cheung, History, Embodying Modernity: Female Nude Advertisements in a Cartoon Pictorial of Early Twentieth Century South China
• Melissa Millora, Education, Niche Institutions and the Public Good
• Luis Murillo, Anthropology, Partial Perspectives in Astronomy: Gender, ethnicity, nationality, and meshworks in building digital images of the universe
• Leila Pazargadi, Comparative Literature, The Mohajer’s Memoir: Investigating the Serialization of Iranian American Memoirs
• Vivian Wong, Information Studies, Documenting “home” in the diaspora: Memory, records, and identities in the archival imaginary

Fall 2009

• Negin Ghavami, Psychology, Examining the consequences of simultaneously belonging to multiple devalued groups, for example, being a black lesbian
• Evangeline Heiliger, Women’s Studies, Who’s Buying It? Ethical Consumerism and Shopping Cart Activism in a Throwaway World
• Allison Johnson, English, The human body in Civil War literature; the poetry of Sarah M.B. Piatt
• Heather Shpiro, Education, The development and implementation of HIV/AIDS education, particularly in regards to sexuality and gender roles, in secondary schools of rural Malawi
• Zeb Tortorici, History, Women at the Margins of the Unnatural: Abortion and Infanticide in Late New Spain
• Meher Varma, Anthropology, Indian Women’s Fashion in Postcolonial Era
• Fuson Wang, English, “Fear ye a mortal’s arm?”: Eleanor Anne Porden and The Institutionalization of the Scientific Epic

Spring 2010

• Hanna Garth, Anthropology, Household Food Acquisition and Consumption in Santiago de Cuba
• Christina Richieri Griffin, English, Alice Meynell’s Maternal Poetics: Writing the Rhythms of the Womb
• Robbin Jeffries, Sociology, “Ordering the Disordered: Determinants of Medical Decision-Making in Cases of Disorders of Sex Development”
• Jacob Lau, Women’s Studies, Editing and publishing Dr. Michael Dillon’s Memoir with a written introduction
• Marisa Pineau, Sociology, Breast Milk Banking Then and Now
• Gilda Rodriguez, Political Science, From Misogyny to Murder: Everyday Sexism and Femicide in Cross-Cultural Context
• Sara Stronovsky, World Arts & Cultures, Batuko Dances of Cape Verde: Women’s Tradition of Resistance at the Cultural and Geographic Crossroads
• Patricia Torres, Urban Planning, Intersectional Analysis of violence: Strategies to Decrease Violence and Increase Empowerment in the Lives and Communities of Women of Color
• Constanze Weise, History, Women as Religious Officeholders and Leaders in Cult Associations in the Ebira and Igala Kingdoms

Fall 2008

• Stephanie Amerian, History, Dorothy Shaver papers
• Alexandra Apolloni, Musicology, Performing the Beehive: Dusty Springfield, Amy Winehouse, and the politics of Racialized Voices AND In the Beginning, There Was Rhythm: Embodiment, Divinity, and Punk Spirituality in the Music of the Slits
• Young (Kate) Choi Hee, Sociology, Parental absence during childhood and intergenerational coresidence later in life: Differential impact of parent’s gender in the context of Mexican migration
• Lorelle L. Espinosa, Higher Education and Organizational Change, The Identity and Self of Women in STEM Fields
• Elizabeth Goodhue, English, Talking with the Dead: Sarah Fielding’s ‘History of Anna Boleyn’ and ‘The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia’
• Bongoh Kye, Sociology, Intergenerational Transmission of Women’s Educational Attainments in Korea – An Application of Multi-state Projection Models to Social Mobility
• Erica Love, Art, Re-assessment of spirituality and the sublime in modern art: an interview with Dr. Jane Dillenberger, author of The Religious Art of Andy Warhol
• Jennifer Moorman, Film, Television & Digital Media, The Royalle Treatment: Female Pornographers in the 21st Century

Spring 2009

• Bradley Thomas Benton, History, “Montezuan’s Nieces: Sixteenth-Century Indigenous Noble Women from Tetzcoco, New Spain”
• Vivian Davis, English, Archival Research to be Conducted for an Article and Dissertation Chapter on Charlotte Lennox, eighteenth-century novelist, playwrite, and critic
• Malik Gaines, Theater & Performance Studies, Efua Sutherland’s African Personality: Ghanaian Drama and International Liberation
• Erin von Hofe, Comparative Literature, Battles, Rodas, and the Street: Competition, transformation, and Gender in Bgirling/Bboying and Capoeira
• Andrea F. Jones, English, The Trials of Margery Kempe: Women and the Law in Late-Midieval England
• Thun Luengsuraswat, Asian American Studies, Sean Dorsey’s performance: “Uncovered: The Diary Project”
• Mirasol Riojas, Cinema and Media Studies, Latinas in Feature FilmProduction – Texas filmmaker, Josey Faz
• Elena Shih, Sociology, Humanitarian Work: The Moral Economy of Women’s Work in the Transnational Anit-Trafficking Movement
• Sabah Firoz Uddin, Women’s Studies

Fall 2007

• Laura Foster, Women’s Studies, Patent Law Borders at the Crossings of Indigenous Self-Determination and Biotechnology Research in South Africa
• Hannah Garth, Anthropology, Gender Play: Notes on a Manny Pacquiao Fight
• Elizabeth Raisanen, English, Intersecting Discourses of the Pregnant Body in Anna Letitia Barbauld’s “To a Little Invisible Being who is Expected Soon to Become Visible”
• Wu Ingrid Tsang, Art/Interdisciplinary Studio, Researching the life of Qui Jin (a Chinese revolutionary, poet, and founder of the first women’s newspaper) at her former residence-turned-museum in Shaoxing
• Sara Wolf, World Arts and Cultures, Renegade Gender: Theorizing the Female Body in Extreme Motion
• Kristin Yarris, Anthropology, The Pain of Thinking Too Much: Dolor de Cerebro and Social Hardship Among Rural Nicaraguan Women

Spring 2008

• Anna Corwin, Anthropology, The Body in the Abbey: Socialization into Embodied Communication among Catholic Nuns in the US and France.
• Wendy DeSouza, History, Mysticism and Homosexuality in Early Twentieth-Century French Orientalism
• Jennifer Flores Sternad, Art History, Etcetera: the International Errorist in Panel on the Body and Militant Art Practice and Activist Artist Collectives in South America
• Esther Friedman, Sociology, Education of Children and Differential Mortality of Parents: Do Parents Benefit from Their Children’s Attainments?
• Jennifer Guzman, Anthropology, Communication in Health Encounters: Mapuche Grandmothers’, Mothers’, and Children’s Interactions with Pediatricians
• Katie Oliviero, Women’s Studies, Some Boundaries of Activist Body-Politics: Corporeal Determinism and Conservative Performance
• Robert Summers, Art History, Archival research of Vaginal Davis’s ‘zines and videos

Fall 2006

• Hope Marie Childers, Art History, South Asian Art History: The Visual Culture of Opium in British India
• Lida Jennings, GSEIS and Educational Leadership Program, Young Women and College Choice: The Impact of Recruitment Strategies and Applicant Perception as Factors in Enrollment Trends at Women’s Colleges
• Suzanne Lye, Classics, The Goddess Styx and the Mapping of World Order in Hesiod’s Theogony
• Candace Moore, Critical Studies in Film, TV, and Digital Media, Queer female representation in television (1950s-present)/early queer organizations, publications, and media criticism
• Sarah Simons, Public Policy, Girl’s eduction in rural Pakistan
• Melissa Sodeman, English, “Charlotte Smith, Wandering and the Novel”

Spring 2007

• Rosemary Candelario, World Arts and Cultures, The Missing Dance: Contemporary Devadasis and HIV
• Julie Kazdan, History, Historical Examination of late nineteenth century Italian women’s movents
• Karen Lindo, French/Francophone Studies, Slashing ‘la logigue et la raison’ in Maryse Conde’s Celanire cou-coupe
• Kimberly Robertson, Women’s Studies, “Nits Make Lice”: American India Breastfeeding, Genocide, and Transnational Processes
• Nadia Sanko, Spanish and Portuguese, New Portrayals of the Afro-Caribbean Woman; the Performativity of Eroticsm, Geder, and Race in Circum-Caribbean Literature and Film of the 1900’s
• Zeb J. Tortorici, History, Contra Natura: Sin, Crime, and “Unnatural” Sexuality in Colonial Mexico, 1600-1800

Fall 2005

• Amy Adrion, Film and TV, Serving 7th Grade
• Esther Baker, World Arts and Cultures, “Tekre/Change”: Raising Awareness about HIV/AIDS through Performance
• Xochitl Flores-Marcial, History, The Zapotec Women of Colonial Oaxaca: A Social and Cultural History
• Natalie Joy, History, “That injured class of our fellow beings”: Women, Abolition and Opposition to Indian Removal, 1828-1838
• Sharmila Lodhia, Women’s Studies, Re-Imagining the Boundaries of Violence in a Transnational Age: The Challenge of Feminist Legal Advocacy
• Dana Murillo, History, The Role of Women in the Colonial Silver Mining District of Zacatecas, Mexico
• Stephanie Van der Wel, Musicology, Country Music’s Representation of Working Class and Rural Femininity
• Kimberly White, English, Insularity, Christianity, and Paternalism in the Writings of Phillis Wheatley

Spring 2006

• Rene Almeling, Sociology, Medical Markets in Genetic Material: Comparing Egg and Sperm Donation
• Emily Carman, Film and TV, Female Film stars and Their Labor (as Actors/Stars) in the American film Industry of the 1930s
• Gloria Gonzalez, Sociology, Health, Body Image and Adolescent Girls
• Ilana Johnson, Anthropology, Gender and Urbanism in Prehistory
• Jill Mitchell, Medical Anthropology, Construction of Meaning in the Experience of Breast Cancer
• Julie Nack Ngue, French/Francophone Studies, Illness and disability in Francophone African and Caribbean women’s writing – “‘Outing’ Colonial Discourses of Disability and Normalization in Francophone Immigrant Narratives”
• Stephen On, Political Science, Women in Multiculturalism and Human Rights; Human Trafficking
• Leila Pazargadi, Comparative Literature, Iranian Women’s Issues – “Violating the Veil: Usurping the Veil from the Sacred Space in Iran and France”
• Nora Zepeda, Spanish and Portuguese, Representations of the Woman’s Body in Spain’s Golden Age Literature
• Jiayun Zhuang, Theater, “Miss China”: the Hypervisible Body on the Global Stage

Fall 2004

• Azza Basarudin, Women’s Studies, Organic Feminism within Islamic Thought and Memories of Islam: (Re)Imagining Muslim and (Re)Defining Faith
• Yelena Furman Slavik Languages & Literatures, Textual Bodies: the Prose of Valeriia Narbikova
• Carolyn Kendrick, Spanish and Portuguese, The Return of the Warrior Women
• Marisol Perez, Spanish and Portuguese, Another Way to See: A Chicana Perspective on Rosario Castellanos
• Sabah Uddin, Women’s Studies, Organic Feminism within Islamic Thought
• Sarah Welchans, Social Welfare, Correlates of Weapon Use in Domestic Violence Incidents Reported to Law Enforcement among Heterosexuals Couples

Spring 2005

• Epifania Amoo-Adare, Education, Asante Women’s Sense of Place in an Urbanizing World
• Ning An, Epidemiology, Ethnic and Gender Differences in Cigarette Smoking Prevalence among Six Major Asian American Sub-populations in California
• Begum Basdas, Geography, Not yet: Lesbian Mobilities and Activism in Istambul
• Brandi C. Brimmer. History, Poor Black Women in North Carolina during the Late Nineteenth Century
• Amy M. Denissen, Sociology, The Micro-politics of Sexual and Gender Harassment
• Nicole Jenine Horejsi, English, Exoticizing the English and Domesticating the Foreign
• Dorothy Kim, English, Reading Women: Literacy, Exoticism & Textual Communities in 13th Century Britain
• Crishan Lin, History, Through Passing
• Sarudzayi M. Matambanadzo, Women’s Studies, Engendering Sex: Birth Certificates, Biology & the Body in Anglo American Law
• Anne Meredith Stiles, English, Harley Granville Barker’s Effeminate Heterosexuals
• Mellissa Heatherly Wither, Public Health, Pregnancy and Childbirth in East Bali

Fall 2003

• Epifania Amoo-Adare, Education, Critical Spatial Literacy ….Asante female household transformation…
• Deirdre Cooper Owens, History, 19th Cnt African American women’s roles within family units and…
• Erin von Hofe, Comparative Literature, Women of Capoeira: Where are we in the Roda?
• Amina Humphrey, Education, Reading Race, Reading Gender: Picture Books About Hair and Skin
• Sonja Myung Kim, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Contested Bodies of New Women: Her “Improved” Clothing in 1920s Korea
• Tomomi Kurokawa, Education, The Politics of Gender among Japanese High School Teachers… and Women Teachers’ Resistance…
• Elisa Mandell, Art History, The Birth of Angels: Role of Spanish Queens in Establishing the Foundation of …
• France Nguyen, Social Welfare, HIV/AIDS in Viet Name: Exploratory Research in HIV Vaccines and Commercial Sex Workers
• Dennis Tyler, English, An Uneasy Alliance: Examining Multi-Ethnic Female Unions and Black-Jewish Tension in Alice Walker’s Meridian
• Maria Estela Zarate, Education, Live-in Maid Wanted: Takes Initiative, Speaks English, Hard-working

Spring 2004

• Xochitl Marina Flores, History, The Zapotect Communities of Colonial Oaxaca: Women, Family & Children
• Dorothy Kyung Hi Kim, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Women’s Devotional Networks in Thirteenth-Century Britain
• Dana Velasco Murillo, History, Race, Class & Gender in Colonial Zacatecas, Mexico
• Emily Musil, History, Legacy of Female Political Activist, Minerva Bernardino
• Jennifer Lynne Musto, Women’s Studies, Cartographies and Hierarchies of Flesh: Monocultural Sexualities & Ecologies of Sex Work Space
• Katy Maribel Pinto, Sociology, Patriarchy or Egalitarianism: Mexican American Parents & Their Children
• Manushag Powell, English, Parrots & Periodicals: Women and the Domestic Exotic in Eliza Haywood’s Parrot and its Forerunners
• Whitney Vincent Strub, History, American Feminist Responses to Pornography, 1968-1980
• Huey Bin Teng, History, Family, Migration and Gender in Fujian, China
• Sabah Uddin, Women’s Studies, The Woman Question: The Ghandian Perspective

Fall 2002

• Rene Almeling, Sociology, A Comparative Study of Egg Donation and Sperm Donation
• Shirin Ershadi, Women’s Studies, Globalization, Justice and the Trafficking of Women and Children
• Karen Grumberg, Comparative Literature, Jewish Women and the Wild Place in Allegra Goodman’s Novel
• Margaret Kuo, History, Litigious Husbands and Runaway Wives
• Carol Medlocott, Geography, Gender, the Civilizing Impulse and the American Roadside Landscape
• Tanya Merchant, Ethnomusicology, Reclaiming Oriental Identity: Images of Women in Uzbek Ethno Pop
• Tu-Uyen Nguyen, Community Health, Specific Strategies for Cultural Tailoring of Breast and Cervical Cancer programs
• Carolina O’Meara, Musicology, ’Shouting Out Loud’: The Breakdown of Rock’s Masculinities
• Marisol Perez, Spanish and Portuguese, Past and Present Struggles: Yreina Cervántez’s Chicana Feminist Geneology
• Elizabeth Vanderven, History, In the Name of the Mother: the Development of Women’s Education

Spring 2003

• Angelica Afanafor, Art History, Grave Matters: The Representation of Women in Funerary Offerings in Pre-Columbian West México
• Esther Marian Baker, World Arts and Cultures, Performing Rural Exodus and Immigration: A Collaborative Choreography Project in Dakar, Senegal
• Kate Bartel, Musicology, Portal of the Skies: Music as Devotional Act in Early Modern Europe
• Brandi Brimmer, History, African American Households and the State
• Gabriela Fried, Sociology, From Mothers to Children: Pedagogies of Horror, A Case Study of the Intergenerational Transmission of Traumatic Memories of Disappearance during the Uruguayan Dictatorship and Transition (1973-2000)
• Alison Harvey, English, Letter, Manuscripts & Working papers of Emily Lawless and the cousin novelists of Edith Somerville and Martin Ross (pseudo. of Violet Martin)
• Shana Lutker, Art, Freud and Me: Identity and Feminism after Sigmund and Anna Freud
• Lisa Tran, History, Concubinage as Adultery: The Public Debate and the Legal Rationale

Fall 2001

• Anna Aizer, Economics, Home Alone: Maternal Employment, Childcare and Adolescent Behavior
• Epifania Amoo-Adare, Education and Information Studies, Critical Spatio-temporal Literacy and the Politics of Urban Space
• Amanda Botticello, Film & TV, Depression Trajectories in Bereaved Caregivers of Elders with Dementia
• Haung-Ja Chung, Anthropology, Commodified of Sexuality and Eroticized Ethnicity: Korean Hostess Club Workers in Japan
• Elizabeth Guillory, Sociology, African American Female Faculty and Professional Identity Formation
• Hillary Haley, Psychology, Is Racial Discrimination Gender-Blind? A Test of the Subordinate Male Target Hypothesis
• Sandra Irlen, Education, Adolescent Girls’ Conversations About Moral Dilemmas Presented in Teen Television Dramas
• Lisa Kay Kasmer, English, Catherine Macaulay and the Female Public Intellectual and Figuring Eighteenth-Century Female Intellectuals
• Teresa Lingafelter, Urban Planning, Gender, Labor and Housing/Community Policy
• Olivia Mather, Musicology, Modal Alternation, Subjectivity, and Hildegard’s Sequences
• Mrisol Ramos-Lum, Information Studies, Elite and Emancipated Women Representation in Colonial Spanish Puerto Rico During the 19th Century
• Elena Shulman, History, Soviet Maidens in the Socialist Fortress: The Khetagurovite Movement in the Soviet Far East 1937-39
• Catherine Taylor, Community Health Sciences, Attitudes About Domestic Violence Intervention: a multi-ethnic, California Study
• Carol Ann Wald, English, Ethnographic Studies of Two Robotics Laboratories Headed by Women

Spring 2002

• Matthew J. Christensen, Comparative Literature, Spielberg’s Friendly Slave Revolt: Men’s Cross-Cultural Sentimental Bonds and the Promise of Racial Integration in Amistad’s America
• Cynthia Diane Culver, History, Gender and Generation on the Pacific Slope Frontier, 1840-1900
• Magdalena Edwards, Comparative Literature, Elizabeth Bishop and Clarice Lispector: Postmodern Voyages to and from 20th Century Brazil
• Cynthia M. Garcia, World Arts & Cultures, Representations of Latin American Women in ‘Baile Popular’: An Analysis of Local Responses to the MTV Reality Show ‘Road Rules: Latin America’
• Galadriel Mehera Gerardo, History, Oscar Lewis and Mexican Machismo
• Judith R. Katzburg, Health Services, Access to Preventive Services for Latina Immigrants: The Roles of Citizenship and Acculturation
• Alison Rice, French/Francophone Studies, Translating Faith: Abdelkebir Khatibi’s ‘La Memoire Tatouee’
• Kristen Schilt, Sociology, ’I’ll Resist With Every Inch and Every Breath’: Girl Zine-Making as a Form of Resistance
• Elena Shtrmoberg, Art History, Afro-Brazillian Gender (Mulatta) Identity in Bahia, Brazil
• JoAnn Staten, World Arts & Cultures, Break the Silence: Art and HIV/AIDS in Suriname
• Laura Talamante, History, ’Among the Victims of Tyranny is a Wife’: The Republican Family and Divorce in Marseille
• Danielle Van Dobben, World Arts & Cultures, Embodying the Exotic: The Performance of ‘The Gypsy’ among American Belly Dancers
• Acacia Warwick, Art History, Prefabricated Desire: Surrealism, Mannequins, and the Fashioning of Modernity
• Theresa Renee White, Education, Media as Pedagogy and Socializing Agent: Influences of Feminine Aesthetics in American Teen-Oriented Films and Magazines on African American Adolescent Female Social Identity

Spring 2001

• Rae Agahari, History, Yong Soon Min’s ;Defining Moments, 1992:; Ambivalence in Representation
• Emily Arms, Education, Producing Girls and Boys: Teachers’ Constructions of Gender in Single Gender Classrooms
• Claire Barnes, Geography, Internment of Prostitutes During World War I
• Kate Bartel, Musicology, ‘As good as an ABBA song’: ‘Dancing Queen,’ Subjectivity, and the Virtual Body
• Annelie Chapman, Slavik Languages & Literatures, Gender Expression in Slavic Advertising Discourse
• Xiaoping Cong, History, Using Schools to Reconstruct the Rural Community: The Social Program of Village Teachers’ School, 1927-1937
• Karina Eileraas, Women’s Studies, Postcolonial subjectivity and the ethics/problematics of nationalist ‘community,’ especially as discussed in the works of Assia Djebar and Jacques Derrida in the context of Algeria revolutionary nationalism
• Azadeh Farahman, Film & TV, Festival Films, National Cinemas and International Markets and From Rape to Reverence: An Unprecedented Female Type in Bahram Beiza’i’s ‘Killing Rabids’
• Lisa Kay Kasmer, English, The ‘Publicity’ of the Private Sphere within Jane Porter’s ‘The Scottish Chiefs’
• Catherine Lee, Sociology, Race-ing and (En)gendering the Nation: Chinese and Japanese Women’s Immigration and the Control of Sexuality, 1870-1920
• Andrea Mansker, History, Celibacy and the Superior Being: Secondary Education for Girls in 19^th Century France
• Andrea Reyes, Spanish and Portuguese, The Essays and Journalistic Work of Rosario Castellanos
• Christine Sellin, Art History, The Republic of Housemaids: Images of Servants in Seventeenth Century Netherlandish Art
• Catherina A. Taylor, Community Health Sciences, The Nature of Newspaper Coverage of Homicide
• Loli Tsan, Roman Linguistics & Literature, Fragmentation and the Writing of the Medieval Body
• Jennifer Uhlmann, History, Gender, Ideology and the Law in the International labor Defense Movement, 1925-1947
• Jacqueline Warwick, Musicology, ‘Look Here, Girls, and Take This Advice’: Feminism and Mainstream 60’s Pop
• Tami Williams, Film & TV, The Life and Films of Germaine Dulac

• Beth Allen, Art History, After the ‘Male Gaze’: Cindy Sherman, Madonna, and Feminism in the 1990s
• Epifania Amoo-Adare, Education, Understanding Education’s Role in the Politics of Space: Developing Critical Spatial Literacy as Women
• John P. Bowles, Art History, Research on African-American, Feminist and Conceptual Art
• E. Tsekani Browne, History, ‘Defending the Manhood of Race’: The Early Anti-Lynching Activism of Ida Wells and the National Politics of Gender, 1880-1920
• Xiaoping Cong, History, Localizing the Global, Nationalizing the Local: The Role of Teachers’ Schools in Modernizing China, 1897-1949
• Maria DePrano, Art History, Italian Renaissance Medals from a Gender Perspective
• Lloys Frates, History, Memory of Place, the Place of Memory: Race, Gender and Space in Late Colonial Lourenco Marques
• Susie Han, Asian American Studies, Hanbok: A Symbol of Korean American Identity and Culture
• Kristen Hatch, Film and Television, ‘Playing Grown-Up’: Girls Impersonating Adults, from Vaudville to Hollywood
• Lisa Kramer, English, Women Writing History in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century
• Bayard Lyons, Anthropology, The Cultural Construction of Male Adolescence in Turkey
• Chloe Michaelopoulous, Latin American Studies, Las Mujeres de Rap: Music as an Ideological Tool in Contesting Ideas of Race and Gender
• Jessica Millward, History, ‘I Never Did Have Any Slaves to Grow’: Slave Women and Gynecological Resistance in the Antebellum South
• Valentina Pagliai, Anthropology, Like Romeo and Juliet Upside Down: Empowering Gendered Voices in Tuscan Community Theater
• Anite Revilla, Education, Latina/o Critical Race Theory (LatCrit) in the Field of Education: A LatCrit Approach to Understanding Feminist Latina Student Activism
• Anne Sheehan, English, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Antebellum Medical and Literary Authority
• Marc Siegel, Film and Television, The Gossip of Images in Lesbian Videos
• Cynthia Miki Strathmann, Anthropology, Agency and the Reconstitution of Power: Sports Fans, Viewing Pleasures, and the Athlete as ‘Cultural Woman’
• Julie Townsend, Comparative Literature, Women’s Artistic Identity: Travel, Exile, and History in de Staël and Hermans
• Jacqueline Warwick, Musicology, Fleshing Out Bilitis: Constructions of Girlhood in Debussy’s Song Cycle