M.A. Student Profiles

M.A. Students

  • Brown, Caitlin

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    Gender and sexualities ; marriage and family policies; pregnancy and women’s agency; technologies of the self; neoliberal politics and effects on media and identity

  • Burnham, Jess

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    The multiplicity of queer and gender variant relational formations and practices; expansiveness of gender identity and expression; relation to embodiment and embodiments in relation; the slippage between monogamous and non-monogamous formations; queer and gender variant re-valuation of relationships; the re-envisioning sensual and sexual practices.

  • DiDato, Mariel

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    I’m interested in a number of different things related to my previous and current experience and knowledge base. I’d like study awareness-based prevention methods for sexual violence, but I am also interested in women’s growing role in leadership, the gender differences in leadership qualities, and the efficacy of those differences respectively.

  • Kong, Lili

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    Interdisciplinary Sexuality studies

  • Londres, Alli

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    Fan Studies, Trans Studies, Critical Race Theory, LGBT Histories, Pop Culture and Media Studies.

  • M., Rena

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    Transgender theory; transgender status in various parts of the world; sexuality outside of hetero and LGB ideas of human sexuality; alternative sexualities.

  • Mescal Gunstensen, Sheilagh

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    Using a feminist lens, exploring domestic and international Gender Based Violence rooted in Politics/laws; Religion, Patriarchy and White Supremacy.

  • Moroses, Allison

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    Women's studies; literature and suffrage; activism

  • Renshaw, Jessica

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    Gender and sexuality issues in K-12 education and music education; the fat/skinny dichotomy in Western cultures and the rise of the “curvy” woman; representations of gender and sexuality in popular culture and its effects on youth.

  • Ronga-Rubin, Sadie

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    Queer Theory & Transgender Studies; Transgender Poetics & Memoirs; Biopolitics; French Philosophy; Affect Studies; Critical Theory; Kinship Studies; Queer Trauma Healing and Healing Through the Arts

  • Sours, Emily

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    Girl Child; Grassroots Organizations; Gender-based Violence

  • Zhao, Ziyi

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    Women's studies combing theory and practice