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2002

2002

DeVries, Judith

  • Committee: Nancy Hewitt, Jennifer Jones, Josephine Diamond
  • Thesis/Practicum: Thesis: Examining the Margins in the Life and Thought of Jane Addams

Miller, Jennifer

  • Committee: Belinda Davis, Jennifer Jones, Margaret Marsh
  • Post-MA Employment/Education: Associate Professor, Historical Studies, Souther Illinois University (Edwardsville, IL)
  • Thesis/Practicum: Thesis: When Boy Meets Girl: The De-Politicalization of Fraternization in the American-Occupied Zone of Germany, 1945-1947

Puente, Carolina Núñez

  • Committee: Ben Sifuentes-Jaragui, Jennifer Jones, Mary Gossy
  • Post-MA Employment/Education: Associate Professor, Department of English, Universidade de Coruña (Spain)
  • Thesis/Practicum: Thesis: The Feminist Dialogics of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Meridel Le Sueur: Gender, Genre, and the (Female) Subject
Carolina undertook the M.A. degree at Rutgers while in the midst of a Ph.D. program in Spain. Upon completion of the M.A., she returned to Spain to complete her doctorate, and then held a postdoc position in the English Deparment at the University of La Coruña, Spain. She was also a fellow at the John F. Kennedy Institut für Nordamerikastudien at Freie Universität (Berlin), and was a postdoc professor and fellow in the Bakhtin Centre at the Univseristy of Sheffield, where she taught her first graduate seminars on Feminism and Gender Studies.
 

Valenti, Jessica

  • Committee: Mary Hawkesworth, Ethel Brooks, oanna Regulska
  • Post-MA Employment/Education: Writer, columnist, founder of Feministing.com
  • Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: Feminist Organizing? An Examination of a Global Campaign in the United Nations' Commission on the Status of Women with the Women's Environment and Development Organization's Gender and Governance Program
Jessica Valenti is a blogger, feminist writer, and founder of Feministing.com. She is the author or co-author of four books on women's issues, including Full Frontal Feminism (2007), He's a Stud, She's a Slut (2008), The Purity Myth (2009), and Why Have Kids? (2012). Her work appears in Ms., The Nation, The Washington Post, Alternet, and The Guardian. In 2011, The Guardian named her one of their "top 100 women" for her work to bring the feminsit movement online.
 

Weintraub, Amy

  • Committee: Particia Roos, Mary Hawkesworth, Joanna Regulska
  • Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: Domestic Violence Support Groups: Theories and Observations with Women Aware, Inc. (New Brunswick, NJ)

Yang, Fu-Chia

  • Committee: Mary Gossy, Mary Hawkesworth, Judith Gerson
  • Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: WOW's Café Theater with Women's One World