People

1998

1998

Chamsanit, Varaporn

  • Committee: Leela Fernandes, Charlotte Bunch, Barbara Balliet
  • Post-MA Employment/Education: Program Manager, Women's Wellbeing and Gender Justice Program, Thai Health Promotion Foundation PhD, Department of Anthropology, Australia National University
  • Thesis/Practicum: Thesis: Repositioning "Phooying Chao Baan": Perspectives and Struggles of Grassroots Women Activists in Thailand

Varaporn Chamsanit, PhD, is program manager of the Women’s Wellbeing and Gender Justice Program of the Thai Health Promotion Foundation, a nationwide, multi-sectoral program. Prior to this, she worked for over 12 years at the Center for Human Rights Studies and Social Development at Mahidol University, as faculty and then as acting director. She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the Australia National University, and her research interests include Gender, Sexuality and Human Rights; Culture, Religion and Human Rights; Human Rights Theory. She has most recently been engaged in research on topics such as the promotion and protection of the rights of women and children with the ASEAN Commission, and the study of sexuality in Thailand.

Fink, Jill

  • Committee: Cynthia Daniels, Mary Gossy, Harriet Davidson, Charlotte Bunch
  • Post-MA Employment/Education: Executive Director, Weavers Way Community Programs
  • Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: ACLU Practicum Experience with American Civil Liberties Union

Hanjian, Marcia

  • Committee: Jennifer Jones, Floyd Grave, Mary Gossy
  • Thesis/Practicum: Thesis: The Heroine Transformed: a Comparative Study of the Barber of Seville

Harzewski, Stephanie

  • Committee: Mary Gossy, Jennifer Jones, Barbara Callaway
  • Post-MA Employment/Education: Lecturer in English, University of New Hampshire PhD in English, University of Pennsylvania (2006)
  • Thesis/Practicum: Thesis: A Womb Divided: Theorizing Menstruation and Feminism
Stephanie Harzewski teaches contemporary British and American literature, and, more generally, British literature since 1800, as well as female sexuality and popular culture. She taught the first online course of the department and has contributed regularly to eUNH’s initiatives, whether piloting software or participating as a panelist in course development and pedagogy-related forums. Her book, Chick Lit and Postfeminism (University of Virginia Press, 2011), received critical acclaim internationally and was a bestseller (top-ten ranking in Amazon.com’s Nonfiction—Women Writers category); this project was supported by grants and fellowships from the Kosciuszko Foundation, AAUW, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the Romance Writers of America. Harzewski has published in peer review journals such as Contemporary Women’s Writing, The Age of Johnson, The Eighteenth-Century Novel, and Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, and several edited book volumes. She has served as a judge and judges’ chair for AAUW’s Grants and Fellowship division as well as a reviewer for Blackboard’s Exemplary Course competition. Harzewski received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania with a graduate certificate in women’s studies.

Jaidee, Thanya

  • Committee: Barbara Callaway, Mary Gossy, Barbara Balliet
  • Thesis/Practicum: Thesis: A Contemporary Feminist Critique of Psychoanalysis Through Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guatarri

Son, Juyeon

  • Committee: Leslie McCall, Barbara Callaway, Mary Gossy
  • Post-MA Employment/Education: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin PhD in Sociology, University of Oregon (2007)
  • Thesis/Practicum: Thesis: Economic Restructuring and Part-Time Pink-Collar Working Women in Korea
 After completing the MA in 1998, Dr. Son received a PhD in Sociology from the University of Oregon in 2007. She is a medical sociologist and she has published articles that examine issues such as health service utilization and immigrant incorporation, postpartum care, health disparities, transnationalism, and technology. Her current research interests are ageing, elderly care, and end-of-life decision making processes along the lines of class, race, and gender categories.