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Dissertation Fellowship

 

This year's Dissertation Fellows

Siobhan King
New School University

Dissertation: Desire and the Reproduction of Race

Lilia Soto
University of California, Berkeley

Dissertation:

 

 

Past Dissertation Fellows

2004-2005 Scholars

Melissa Forbis
University of Texas at Austin, Anthropology

Dissertation: Gender, Autonomy and Indigenous Rights in Chiapas, Mexico

Emily Cheng
University of California, San Diego, Literature

Dissertation: Sentimental Journey: U.S. Feminisms and Transnational Adoption From East Asia

 

Francisca James Hernandez
Stanford University, Social and Cultural Anthropology

Dissertation: Globalization, Marginality, and the "Democratic Imaginary": Free Traders, Displaced Workers, and the Fair Share Movement on the United States

Judy Lee Rohrer
University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, Political Science

Dissertation: Haole Matters: An Interrogation of Whiteness in Hawai'i

 

2003-2004 Scholars

Jane Haladay
UC Davis, Native American Studies/Women and Gender Studies

Dissertation: "Love and Blood: Significant Women in Four Salish Novels"

Chikako Takeshita
Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Science and Technology Studies

Dissertation: "Negotiating Acceptability on Behalf of Women: The IUD and the Politics of Reproduction"

 

 

2002-2003 Scholars

Alison Kafer
Claremont Graduate University, Women's Studies and Religion

Dissertation: "Supercrips, Cyborgs, and Feminist Utopias: Toward a Feminist Disability Theory and Politics"

Mattie Richardson
UC Berkeley, African Diaspora Studies

Dissertation: "Critical Reconstructions of History: Black Lesbian Literature and Film"

2001-2002 Scholars

Kathy Glass
Literature, UC San Diego

Dissertation: Courting Communities: Black Female Activism in the Antebellum North, 1830-1860

Ellie Schemenauer
International Relations, Florida International University, Miami, Florida

Dissertation: Working Title: Women and Drug Trafficking in the Caribbean

2000-01 Scholars

Lynn Sacco
History, University of Southern California

Dissertation: Not Talking About "It": A History of Incest in the United States 1890-1940

Ruby Tapia
Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego

Dissertation: Conceiving Images: Racialized Visions of the Maternal

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1999-2000 Scholars

Maylei Blackwell
History of Consciousness, UC Santa Cruz

Dissertation: Mapping Multiple Insurgencies: Social Difference in Second Wave Women's Movements in the U.S. and Mexico

Maythee Rojas
English, Arizona State University

Dissertation: Traviesaduras Chicanas: Female Sexual Transgressions in Chicana Literature

1998-99 Scholars

Ednie Garrison
American Studies, Washington State University in Pullman

Dissertation: The Third Wave and Cultural Predicament of Feminist Consciousness in the U.S.

Laura Scott Holliday
English, UC Santa Barbara

Dissertation: Household Hints and Home Cooking: Technologies of the U.S. Kitchen, 1945-68

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