MA Alumni Listing

• Research Interests: Black Women's studies; media and popular culture; hip hop; sexuality; gender; the power of words/reinforcing images.
• Education: Spelman College with a BA in English.

Cultivating more emancipatory spaces in public education to bring forth the histories and narratives of queer students and students of color, outside the gender binary, which more closely reflect his own experiences both as a public school student, an education major, and a public school teacher.

• Research Interests: Globalization and multiculralism in Asia

• Education: Graduated from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor and received her BA in Psychology/Bio from Stony Brook University SUNY.
• Committee: Jasbir Puar, Julie Rajan, Carlos Decena, and Sylvia Chan-Malik
• Post-MA Employment/Education: Jasleen is currently pursuing a doctorate in American Culture at the University of Michigan, where she plans to expand upon this research.
• Thesis/Practicum: Thesis entitled, “Sikh Queer Community Navigates Invisibility as the ‘Terrorist-Monster.’”
• Dissertation: Her thesis explores certain dynamics that complicate the understanding of how Sikh queer groups relate to feminist and queer spaces within mainstream North American and the South Asian diaspora. Due to their racial, ethnic, and sexual differences from those groups, Sikh queer groups tend to be marginalized within mainstream and South Asian queer spaces. Jasleen’s research looks at the multiple aspects of this marginalization, including how the religious identity of queer Sikhs has complicated even further their agencies, especially in light of negative projections of the Sikh mainstream community as the “terrorist-monster” Other in the post-9/11 era.

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• Research Interests: Reproductive Rights; Gender-based violence; State Policy; Abortion access
• Education: 2015/B.S. in Nutritional Sciences/Rutgers University
• Job Placement: New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission
• Committee: Balakrishnan, Radhika (chair); McMahon, Sarah (internal member); Cooper, Brittney C. (internal member); Rutgers University; School of Graduate Studies
• Thesis/Practicum: "The ICPD and New Jersey: Bringing International Standards for Human Rights and Gender Equality to State Policy"
• RU Core Link: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/65115/

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• Research Interests: 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.
• Education: BS in Integrated Studies from Utah Valley University, emphases in Peace and Justice Studies, Sociology; Minor in Gender Studies.
• Committee: Balakrishnan, Radhika (chair); McMahon, Sarah (internal member); Cooper, Brittney C. (internal member); Rutgers University; School of Graduate Studies
• Thesis/Practicum: "Queer and gender-nonconforming partnership in the United States and implications for intimate possibility"
• RU Core Link: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/63138/

• Committee: Daniels, Cynthia (chair); Schuller, Kyla (internal member); Cohen, Ed (internal member); Mutcherson, Kimberly (internal member); Rutgers University; School of Graduate Studies
• Thesis/Practicum: "Choosing between reproductive health and health from coronavirus: the COVID-19 pandemic and barriers to abortion access"
• RU Core Link: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/65653/

• Committee: Cooper, Brittney (chair); Schuller, Kyla (internal member); Rajan, Julie (internal member); Rutgers University; School of Graduate Studies
• Thesis/Practicum: "Looking at Nothing Is Seeing Yourself": Speculative Podcasts and Fans Imagining Queer Radical Futures”
• RU Core Link: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/65919/

• Committee: Julie Rajan (Chair), Ethel Brooks, Charlotte Bunch
• Thesis/Practicum: Practicum, "Covid-19 and Violence Against Women: Interrogating the Humanitarian Model”

• Committee: Julie Rajan (Chair), Ethel Brooks, Kyla Schuller
• Thesis/Practicum: Practicum, “Political Attachments and the Temporal Now: The Non-Profit Industrial Complex and Rights-Centered Approaches in the Neoliberal State”