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Doctoral Emphasis

Application to the Doctoral Emphasis Program in Feminist Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
2009-2010
 

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The Department of Feminist Studies, with almost sixty core and affiliated faculty members in over nineteen disciplines, serves as a model of interdisciplinary work and scholarly collaboration at UCSB. Through 2008, 44 students have graduated from UCSB having completed the doctoral emphasis; 11 more graduate in 2009. More than 31 other students currently participate in the emphasis. Feminist Studies doctoral emphasis students are required to complete successfully four seminars designed to develop critical and analytic understanding of feminist theory and pedagogy as well as the study of women, gender, and sexuality. Feminist Studies as an inter-departmental set of conversations and intellectual questions also supports a multifaceted undergraduate curriculum at UCSB; doctoral emphasis students are encouraged to apply to teach Feminist Studies courses as teaching assistants and associates as part of their training.

Applicants must first be admitted to, or currently enrolled in, a UCSB Ph.D. program participating in the Feminist Studies graduate emphasis:

Anthropology
Chicana/o Studies*
Communication*
Comparative Literature
Counseling, Clinical, & School Psychology
English
Film & Media Studies*
French
German
Hispanic Languages & Literatures
History
History of Art
Linguistics*
Music
Political Science
Religious Studies
Sociology
Theater Studies


[*Chicana/o Studies, Communication, Film & Media Studies, and Linguistics are in the process of affiliating.] Students enrolled in an affiliated program can submit an application for the doctoral emphasis at any stage of their work, though we encourage early application. Applications will be considered throughout the year.

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The Doctoral Emphasis Curriculum

Students pursuing the emphasis in Feminist Studies will successfully complete a program of four graduate courses that has been approved by the Director of the Doctoral Emphasis and will also include a member of the Feminist Studies departmental or affiliated faculty on their dissertation committees. Courses must fulfill the following requirements:

  1. Feminist Theories. A one quarter graduate seminar in interdisciplinary feminist theory offered by any department, including Feminist Studies 250 AA-ZZ.
      
  2. Issues in Feminist Epistemology and Pedagogy (Feminist Studies 270). A one quarter seminar that considers Feminist Studies as a distinct field. It offers an interdisciplinary exploration of feminist theories of knowledge production and teaching practices. Readings cover past and present critical debates and provide theoretical approaches through which to analyze interdisciplinary epistemological and pedagogical issues.
      
  3. Graduate Seminar in Feminist Studies (Feminist Studies 200-290 or 594 AA-ZZ). A one quarter seminar offered by a Feminist Studies faculty member on topics of central concern to the field.
    Or Research Practicum (Feminist Studies 280*). A cross-disciplinary seminar in which fundamental questions in contemporary feminist research practice are considered in light of students’ own graduate projects. (*in process of revision into 280A and 280B. One quarter will be required.)
      
  4. Topical Seminar. A one quarter graduate seminar that addresses topics relevant to the study of women, gender, and/or sexuality. This seminar must be taken outside the student’s home department; it may be fulfilled either by another graduate seminar in Feminist Studies or a seminar in another department.

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To apply, please submit the following materials:

  • Application Form (pdf), Letter of Application, and CV
    The letter should describe any relevant previous coursework, your anticipated research specialty in your home department, and its relation to interdisciplinary scholarship in Feminist Studies. (Lack of prior course work in Feminist Studies does not preclude admission, so long as a compelling statement of research interest congruent with the graduate emphasis makes the case.) In the letter and application form, please indicate your home department and include full contact information, including address, email, phone number(s), and perm number.
       
  • Letter of Recommendation
    A letter of recommendation from a UCSB faculty member should be sent, preferably by email, to Barbara Tomlinson, Director of the Feminist Studies Doctoral Emphasis: (btomlinson@femst.ucsb.edu).

Send application materials, preferably as attachments to an email to:

Barbara Tomlinson
Doctoral Emphasis Director
Department of Feminist Studies
4701 South Hall
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-7110
btomlinson@femst.ucsb.edu

Your application will be reviewed by a faculty committee within two weeks.

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Core Faculty:

Janet Afary*, Ph.D., University of Michigan, Mellichamp Professor of Global Religions and Modernisms, Religious Studies and Feminist Studies: gender and women’s history, culture and sexuality in Iran and the Middle East
(* appointment is in process)

Jacqueline Bobo, Ph.D., University of Oregon, Professor: film/television, cultural studies, Black feminist cultural theory

Eileen Boris, Ph.D., Brown University, Hull Professor and Chair: gender, race, and class; feminist theory; labor studies; social politics; women, work, and welfare; women’s and gender history

Grace Chang, Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, Associate Professor: women of color, immigrant women, globalization studies, social justice movements for immigrant and welfare rights

Barbara Herr Harthorn, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, Associate Professor: gender, race, and health inequality; social construction of risk; science and new technologies; geographies of inequality

Ellie Hernandez, Ph.D., University of California, Assistant Professor: 20th Century American literature and cultural studies; Chicana/o and Latina/o literature and cultural production; gay/lesbian studies and queer theory; comparative sexualities

Mireille Miller-Young, Ph.D., New York University, Assistant Professor: black feminist theory, black sexual politics, the racialized political economy of sex work, and American film and visual cultures

Laury Oaks, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, Associate Professor: The politics of reproduction in the U.S. and Ireland; anthropology of health, medicine, and science; transnational social movements

Leila J. Rupp, Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College, Professor: women’s movements, sexuality, gay/lesbian history, women’s history

Barbara Tomlinson, Ph.D., University of California, Riverside, Associate Professor: feminist theory, rhetoric and feminist politics, cultural studies

Affiliated Faculty:

Paul Amar, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Law and Society: the race/sex politics of police brutality, authoritarian legacies, and security regimes in Latin America and the Middle East, particularly Brazil and Egypt

Ingrid Banks, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Black Studies: African American Studies, race and racism, Black feminist theory

Edwina Barvosa-Carter, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Chicana and Chicano Studies: social and political theory, Latino/a politics, multicultural democracy and citizenship

Aaron Belkin, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Political Science, and Director, Michael D. Palm Center: masculinity, violence, and sexuality in the military

Ann Bermingham, Ph.D., Professor, History of Art and Architecture: 18th and 19th –century European art, particularly British art

Silvia Bermúdez, Ph.D., Professor, Spanish and Portuguese: twentieth-century peninsular and Latin American poetry and politics, literary and cultural theory

Kum-Kum Bhavnani, Professor, Sociology: women, culture, and development; transnational activism; feminism and race

Gayle Binion, Ph.D., Professor, Political Science: public law, law and society, feminist jurisprudence

Maurizia Boscagli, Ph.D., Associate Professor, English: gender studies and feminist theory, the body, theories of subjectivity, British and European modernism, critical and cultural theory

Mary Bucholtz, Ph.D., Professor, Linguistics: sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, language, gender, and sexuality, African American English, Mexican and Chicano Spanish

Julie Carlson, Ph.D., Professor, English: British Romanticism, feminist and queer theories, social revolutions of the 1790s and 1960s

Sarah Cline, Ph.D., Professor, History, and Director of Latin American and Iberian Studies: Latin American history, Atlantic world history, comparative studies of gender, race, ethnicity, and colonialism

Patricia Cline Cohen, Ph.D., Professor, History: U.S. women's history, history of sexuality

Sharon A. Farmer, Ph.D., Professor, History: medieval women and gender, medieval towns, medieval poor, relations between western Europe and the east

Sarah Fenstermaker, Ph.D., Professor, Sociology and Director of the Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research: women and work, gender inequality, feminist epistemologies, ethnographic methods

L. O. Aranye Fradenburg, Ph.D., Professor, English: Medieval English and Scottish literature, critical theory, gender and sexualities, public humanities

Sabine Fruhstuck, Ph.D., Professor, East Asian Language and Cultural Studies and Director of the East Asian Cultural Center: Modern Japanese cultural studies; cultural sociology and the history of modern and contemporary Japan (theory and history of sexuality and gender, military-societal relations, violence and the state, visual culture)

Nancy Gallagher, Ph.D., Professor, History, and Chair of Middle East Studies Program: modern Middle Eastern and North African history

Bishnupriya Ghosh, Ph.D., Associate Professor, English: postcolonial theory and film; feminist theory and gender studies; literatures written in English

Avery Gordon, Ph.D., Professor, Sociology: social theory, race, gender, culture and art, radical theory and politics

Mary Hancock, Ph.D., Professor, Anthropology and History: South Asian anthropology and history, ethnohistory

Tania Israel, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychology; School of Education: gender issues, feminist psychology, LGBTQ issues, social justice, sexuality education and counseling

Ursula R. Mahlendorf, Ph.D., Professor Emerita, Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies: German language and literature, comparative literature, women’s studies

Scott Marcus, Ph.D., Professor, Music: North Indian and Middle Eastern music and performance practice, Arab music theory, North Indian folk music, tuning and temperament, gender and music

Christina S. McMahon, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Theater and Dance: transformative performances of colonial history; race, gender, and sexuality in West Africa; performance-based ethnography; globalism and national identity formation in Africa

Claudine Michel, Professor, Black Studies, and Director of the Center for Black Studies Research: moral development among African American women and youth, multicultural education, religion, children's literature

Stephan Miescher, Ph.D., Associate Professor, History: nineteenth and twentieth-century social history of west Africa, colonialism, gender, masculinities, oral historiography, history of sexualities

Catherine Nesci, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, French and Italian: nineteenth-century French literature and cultural studies, literary theory, feminist and gender studies

Christopher Newfield, Ph.D., Professor, English: nineteenth and twentieth century American literature, literary and social theory, gender, sexuality, and race

Lisa Parks, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Film Studies: global media and broadcast history, cultural studies

Constance Penley, Ph.D., Professor, Film Studies: film history and theory, media studies, literary and rhetorical studies, cultural studies, feminist theory, science and technology studies, contemporary art

Ann Plane, Ph.D., Professor, History, and Director of Public Historical Studies: American colonial history, Native American history, history of women and the family

Linda Putnam, Ph.D., Professor, Communication: Negotiation and conflict management in organizations; discourse studies in organizations; gender and negotiation

Erika Rappaport, Ph.D., Associate Professor, History: modern Britain and its empire, modern European gender history, comparative consumer cultures

Horacio Roque-Ramírez, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Chicana and Chicano Studies: queer/LGBTQ community history and theory, Central American studies, oral history theories and methods

Chela Sandoval, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Chicano Studies: cyber and millennial studies, third space feminism, critical media theory and production, oppositional consciousness, social movement

Beth Schneider, Ph.D., Professor, Sociology, and Associate Dean of the Division of Social Sciences: sexuality, feminist studies, social movements, AIDS, health

Denise Segura, Ph.D., Professor, Sociology: gender, feminist studies, Chicano/a studies, race relations, work and community studies

Celine Parreñas Shimizu, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Asian American Studies: film and performance theory and production, theories of sexuality, Asian American cultural studies and transnationalism, feminist postcolonial studies and social theory

Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Ph.D., Professor, History of Art and Architecture: photography, contemporary art, nineteenth-century French art, feminist and critical theory

Ines Talamantez, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Religious Studies: Native American religious traditions and philosophies, religions of Mexico and Chicano religion, women and healing, religion and ecology

Verta Taylor, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Sociology: social movements, gender, feminist studies, sexuality, and health

France Winddance Twine, Ph.D., Professor, Sociology: gender, girlhood, racism/anti-racism, feminist theory, critical race theory, field research methods, multiracial/transracial families

Janet Walker, Ph.D., Professor, Film and Media Studies: film history and historiography, documentary film, film and ethnography

Mayfair Yang, Ph.D., Professor, Religious Studies and East Asian Languages and Cultures: anthropology of the state, modernity, China and Chinese diaspora in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, and the West

Xiaojian Zhao, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Chair, Asian American Studies: U.S. history, Asian American history, immigration, family, gender, and law

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2009 Graduates with a Doctoral Emphasis in Feminist Studies

DANIELLE BORGIA (LAFRANCE)
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Advisor: Silvia Bermudez Exp. Fall 2009
Specters of the Woman Author: The Haunted Fictions of Anglo-American, Mexican American, and Mexican Women

JENNIFER RILEY CALDWELL
THEATER & DANCE Advisor: Leo Cabranes-Grant Summer 2009
Whose Nation is It Anyway? WWII Soldier Shows Creating Government Issued (GI) Americans

SUSAN E. COOK
ENGLISH Advisor: Maurizia Boscagli Exp. Spring 2009
Subjects Incorporated: Forms of Inclusion in the Long Nineteenth Century
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of English, University of South Florida

SHARON DOETSCH-KIDDER
ENGLISH Advisor: Shirley Lim & Leila Rupp Exp. Summer 2009
The Spirit of Social Change: Love, Hope, Faith and Joy in Contemporary Activism

ANDREA FONTENOT
ENGLISH Advisor: Maurizia Boscagli Exp. Spring 2009
Perverse Genealogies: Modernism and the Making of Queer Publics

STACIE FURIA
SOCIOLOGY Advisor: Denise Bielby Exp. Summer 2009
Memoirs of Captain Fury: An Ethnographic Study of Gender and the Military
Assistant Professor of Social Justice, Department of Social Justice, Northland College

OSCAR GIL-GARCIA
SOCIOLOGY Advisors: Denise Segura & Laury Oaks Exp. Summer 2009
Representations of Race, Class and Gender in Transnational Guatemalan Forced Migrant Communities

APRIL ROSE HAYNES
HISTORY Advisor: Patricia Cohen Spring 2009
Riotous Flesh: Gender, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice, 1830-1860
Lancaster Dissertation Award, 2009
NEH Postdoctoral Fellowship (Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA), 2009-10
Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowship, (American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, MA), 2009-10

LASHAUNE JOHNSON
SOCIOLOGY & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT Advisors: Jon Cruz & Laury Oaks Exp. Summer 2009
In My Sisters' Shadows: Politics of Authenticity and Worthiness in African-American Breast Cancer Outreach

KATRINA KIMPORT
SOCIOLOGY Advisors: Verta Taylor & Jennifer Earl Exp. Summer 2009
The Meanings of Marriage: Gender, Sexuality and Heteronormativity in the 2004 San Francisco Same-Sex Weddings

BIANCA MURILLO
HISTORY Advisor: Stephan Miescher Exp. Summer 2009
Market Relations: Retailing, Distribution, and the Politics of Consumption in the Gold Coast/Ghana, 1930-75
Lausanne Postdoctoral Fellow in History, Willamette University, Salem, Oregon, 2009-11

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1994-2008 Graduates with a Doctoral Emphasis in Women's Studies

RACHEL ADAMS
ENGLISH Advisor: Maurizia Boscagli Spring 1997
Strange Company: Women, Freaks, and Others in Twentieth-century America
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

ELIZABETH ADAN
INDIVIDUAL Advisor: Abigail Solomon-Godeau Spring 2006
Matter, Presence, Image: The Work of Ritual in Contemporary Feminist Art
Assistant Professor of Art History, Department of Art and Design, California Polytechnic University at San Luis Obispo

ALMA ALFARO
SPANISH & PORTUGUESE Advisor: Timothy McGovern Spring 2004
Women Writers and Central American Literature: Politics, Sexuality, and Gender in the Writings of Daisy Zamora, Jacinta Escudos, and Lety Elvir
Assistant Professor of Spanish, Department of Modern Languages, Walla Walla College

JUDY BAUERLEIN
THEATER & DANCE Advisor: Catherine Cole Summer 2008
Nostalgic Bodies/Indelible Voices: Strategies of Representation in Feminist Solo Performance
Assistant Professor of Theater, Department of Visual and Performing Arts, California State University San Marcos

DENISE BAXTER
ART HISTORY (HISTORY OF ART & ARCHITECTURE) Advisor: Ann Bermingham Summer 2003
Fashions of Sociability in Jean-Francois de Troy’s Tableaux de Mode, 1725-1738
Assistant Professor of Art History and Affiliate of Women’s Studies, School of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas

STEPHANIE BROMMER
ANTHROPOLOGY Advisor: Mary Hancock Spring 2004
‘We Walk with Them’: South Asian Women’s Organizations in Northern California Confront Domestic Abuse
Senior Faculty, School of Arts and Sciences, and Coordinator of Communications Program, City University of Seattle

KARL E. BRYANT
SOCIOLOGY Advisor: Beth Schneider Summer 2007
The Politics of Pathology and the Making of 'Gender Identity Disorder'
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, State University of New York, New Paltz

SIMONE CHESS
ENGLISH Advisors: Richard Helgerson & Patricia Fumerton Summer 2008
‘Where’s your man’s heart now?’: Male to Female Crossdressing Plots in Early Modern Literature
Assistant Professor of English, Wayne State University

DANA M. COLLINS
SOCIOLOGY Advisor: Kum-Kum Bhavnani Spring 2002
Laboring Districts, Pleasuring Sites: Hospitality, ‘Gay’ Life, and the Production of Urban Sexual Space in Manila
Assistant Professor of Sociology, California State University at Fullerton

SUZANNE CRAWFORD (O’BRIEN)
RELIGIOUS STUDIES Advisor: Ines Talamantez Spring 2003
Body as Battleground: Health, Gender, and Embodiment Among American Indian Communities of Washington State
Associate Professor of Religion and Culture, Chair of Global Studies Program, Pacific Lutheran University

BETH CURRANS
RELIGIOUS STUDIES Advisor: Dwight Reynolds Summer 2007
Performing Gender, Enacting Community: Women, Whiteness, and Belief in Contemporary Public Demonstrations
Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies Program, College of William and Mary

SUSAN E. DALTON
SOCIOLOGY Advisor: John Sutton Spring 1999
We are Family: Understanding the Structural Barriers to the Legal Formation of Gay and Lesbian Families in California

SANDRA DAWSON
HISTORY Advisor: Erika Rappaport Winter 2007
Islands of Leisure: British Holiday Camp Culture in Peace and War, 1919-1954
Instructor, Department of History, Northern Illinois University

MADELYN DETLOFF
ENGLISH Advisor: Julie Carlson Fall 1997
Production of the Past: Re-visionary Historiography in the Writings of H.D., Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf
Associate Professor of English, Director and Associate Professor of Women’s Studies, Miami University of Ohio

SYLVANNA M. FALCON
SOCIOLOGY Advisor: Denise Segura Spring 2006
‘Where are the Women?’: Transnational Feminist Interventions at the United Nations World Conference Against Racism
UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Women’s Studies Department, University of California, Riverside

BARBARA C. FRANTZ
GERMAN Advisor: Ursula Mahlendorf Spring 1995
Gertrud Kolmar’s Prose: Stories about Inferiority, Violence, Social Importance, Maternal Bonds and the Boundaries of Self: A Social-psychological Study
Associate Professor of German, Modern Languages and Literatures, California Polytechnic at San Luis Obispo

LORENA GARCIA
SOCIOLOGY Advisor: Denise Segura Spring 2006
Beyond the Latina Virgin/Whore Dichotomy: Investigating the Sexual Subjectivity of Latina Youth
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois, Chicago

JULIA GARRETT
ENGLISH Advisor: Richard Helgerson Spring 2004
Community and Intimacy in English Witchcraft Discourse
Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies, Randolph-Macon College

AMELIA (MOLLY) GEORGE
SOCIOLOGY Advisor: Sarah Fenstermaker Fall 2008
Expert Service Work: Gender, Intimate Labor, and the Pursuit of Professional Legitimacy

SARA ELIZABETH GEREND
ENGLISH Advisor: Maurizia Boscagli Summer 2004
Spectral Modernity: Ghosts of Empire in the Early Twentieth Century
Assistant Professor of English, Department of English and Modern Languages, Purdue University North Central

LAURA GRINDSTAFF
SOCIOLOGY Advisor: Beth Schneider Spring 1996
Airing Dirty Laundry: Behind the Scenes of a Daytime Television Talkshow
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California, Davis

LAURA HOLLIDAY
ENGLISH Advisor: Shirley Lim Spring 2004
The Frying Pan and the Fire: Gendered Citizenship and the American Kitchen from the Postwar Era to the Family Values Campaign

GLYN HUGHES
SOCIOLOGY Advisor: Beth Schneider Fall 2004
SportCo Branding: Management Culture, and Subjectivity in U.S. Sports Media
Director, Office of Common Ground, University of Richmond

PATRICIA CLARE INGHAM
ENGLISH Advisor: Aranye Fradenburg Summer 1995
Sovereign Fantasies: Arthurian Romance and the Making of Britain
Associate Professor of English and Medieval Studies, Indiana University

JOHARI JABIR
RELIGIOUS STUDIES Advisor: Rudy Busto Summer 2007
One More Valiant Soldier Here: Music, Masculinity, and Manhood in the Black Religious Imaginary
Assistant Professor of Black Popular Culture, Department of African American Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago

SUSAN KELLER
ENGLISH Advisor: Maurizia Boscagli Summer 2008
Making Up Modernity: Fashioning the Feminine in Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Culture
Lecturer, College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

CAROLYN HERBST LEWIS
HISTORY Advisor: Leila Rupp Fall 2007
Coitus Perfectus: The Medicalization of Heterosexuality in the Cold War United States
Assistant Professor of American and Women’s History, Louisiana State University

MEIKA LOE
SOCIOLOGY Advisor: Beth Schneider Spring 2002
(De)constructing the Viagra Phenomenon: Claims, Markets, and the Science of Sex
Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, Colgate University

MARTHA MCCAUGHEY
SOCIOLOGY Advisor: Constance Penley Fall 1995
Physical Feminism: An Ethnographic Study of the North American Women’s Self-Defense Movement and Its Transformation of Gender Ideology
Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Director of Women’s Studies, Appalachian State University

JESSICA O’KEEFE
THEATER & DANCE Advisor: Catherine Cole Spring 2008
Under Construction: Contemporary American Transgender Theatre
Program Director, Women’s Center, University of California, Santa Barbara

ANASTASIA N. PANAGAKOS
ANTHROPOLOGY Advisor: Mary Hancock Summer 2003
Romancing the Homeland: Transnational Lifestyles and Gender in the Greek Diaspora
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Cosumnes River College

SARAH (WATSON) PARSONS
ART HISTORY (HISTORY OF ART & ARCHITECTURE) ADVISORs: Ann Bermingham & Abigail Solomon-Godeau Fall 2004
Imagining Empire: Slavery and British Visual Culture, 1765-1807
Associate Professor of Canadian Art History, Department of Visual Arts, York University

STACEY ROBERTSON
HISTORY Advisor: Pat Cohen Spring 1994
Parker Pillsbury, Anti-slavery Apostle: Gender and Religion in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Radicalism
Associate Professor of History, Chair of History, Director Women’s Studies Program, Bradley University

JENNIFER ROGERS
SOCIOLOGY Advisor: Kum-Kum Bahvnani Summer 2008
The Ma(i)ze of Globalization: Free Trade, Gender, and Resistance in Oaxaca
Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Nanotechnology in Society, University of California, Santa Barbara

JEANNE SCHEPER
ENGLISH Advisor: Maurizia Boscagli Summer 2005
Moving Performances: Traversing Trans-Atlantic Modernism, 1892-1940
Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies, University of California, Irvine

MARK SCHULLER
ANTHROPOLOGY Advisor: Mary Hancock Fall 2007
Killing with Kindness? The Impacts of International Development Aid on Participation and Autonomy within Women’s NGOs in Post-Coup Haiti
Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Anthropology, York College, City University of New York

EVE SHAPIRO
SOCIOLOGY Advisor: Beth Schneider & Verta Taylor Fall 2005
The Disposable Boy Toy: Identity Transformation in a Drag King Community
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Westfield State College

CYNTHIA STAVRIANOS
POLITICAL SCIENCE Advisor: M. Kent Jennings Summer 2008
The Politics of Motherhood: Maternal Frames in Women's Political Action
Instructor of Politics and International Affairs, University of Northern Arizona

PARISSA TADRISSI
SPANISH & PORTUGUESE Advisor: Silvia Bermudez Spring 2006
‘Realismo Sucio,’ Women, and Youth Culture in Contemporary Spain: Care Santos’ Narratives of Identity Formation
Assistant Professor of Spanish, Department of Hispanic Studies, College of Charleston

JESSICA TAFT
SOCIOLOGY Advisor: Avery Gordon Spring 2008
Growing Up and Rising Up: Teenage Girl Activists and Social Movements in the Americas
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Davidson College

MOLLY TALCOTT
SOCIOLOGY Advisor: Kum-Kum Bhavnani Summer 2008
Claiming Dignity, Reconfiguring Rights: Gender, Youth, and Indigenous-led Politics in Southern Mexico
Assistant Professor of Social & Behavioral Science, Arizona State University

SARAH MCFARLAND TAYLOR
RELIGIOUS STUDIES Spring 1999
Sisters of Earth: Catholic Nuns Rehabilitating Religion at Genesis Farm
Associate Professor of Religion, Northwestern University

BARBARA TREPAGNIER
SOCIOLOGY Advisor: Kum-Kum Bhavnani Spring 1996
Silent Racism in White Women
Professor of Sociology, Texas State University, San Marcos

SARAH WHEDON
RELIGIOUS STUDIES Advisor: Catherine Albanese Fall 2007
Hands, Hearts, and Heads: Childhood and Esotericism in American Waldorf Education
Lecturer, Department of Humanities, Newbury College