2015

• Committee: Mary Hawkesworth, Zakia Salime, Fakhri Haghani
• Thesis/Practicum: Domestic Violence: Challenges for Egyptian Women
• RU Core Link: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/46359/

Deyana Ibraham received a B.A. in Women's and Gender Studies and Sociology from Rutgers University in 2009. After graduation, she has held various positions at SHI International Corp. based in Somerset, NJ.

• Committee: Julie Rajan
• Thesis/Practicum: Gender, Women's Liberation, and the Nation-State: A Study of the Chinese Opera 'The White-Haired Girl'

As an undergraduate, Bo Jia majored in History. This not only taught her how to properly analyze facts and increased her knowledge, but it also painted a historical map of the many ups and downs that various countries' women's liberation movements had to navigate through. With her understanding of Gender Studies, she wrote a series of related papers. She also enrolled in a 3-month course at Peking University on Gender Studies, which made her realize that the common knowledge about gender is often misconstrued, as it is a very complex issue. Furthermore, in order to broaden her horizon in the current status of Women's Studies, she has done her internship in Dalian Women’s Studies Institute from July to Sept. 2009. After she graduated, she worked in Dalian Women’s Studies Institute from Sept. 2010 to Jan. 2011, which gave her the opportunity to understand the development process of Women’s Studies.

• Committee: Mary Hawkesworth, Brittney Booper, Carlos Decena
• Post-MA Employment/Education: Pursuing PhD in Feminist Studies, UC-Santa Barbara (2015)
• Thesis/Practicum: Latin@ Equality Alliance with Latino Equality Alliance (Los Angeles, CA)

Isabella graduated with a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2012 with a major in English and a minor in Feminist Studies. In her year off, Isabella worked on public outreach for Equality California, the largest and oldest LGBT lobbying organization in California. In this time, Isabella also worked for the Mayor of Los Angeles as the LGBT liaison intern. Her current research interests are the social ramifications of gender non-conforming individuals in Western cultures. Isabella hopes to eventually work with gender non-normative youth in the greater Los Angeles area.