MA Alumni Listing
MA Alumni Listing
Halika, Amal Abou
- Committee: Joanna Regulska, Charlotte Bunch, Jennifer Jones
- Post-MA Employment/Education: Founder and Director, New Woman Foundation, Cairo, Egypt
- Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: Women's Studies
| Amal Abou Halika is a feminist and human rights activist from Egypt. She is a member of the Sterring Committee of the Arab regional Coalition "Equality Without Reservation" oN CEDAW and the planning committee of Musawah (Equality and Justice in the Muslim Family). She has published and conducted extensive research and advocacy in the field ofwomen's rights, particularly with regard to reproductiev health, violence against women, and female genital mutilation. She served on a number of international and regional boards and coalitions, and is a founding member of the New Woman Foundation, the Task Force Against Female Genital Mutilation, and the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights. |
Prasad, Sulekha
- Committee: Mary Hawkesworth, Marisa Fuentes, Radhika Balakrishnan
- Post-MA Employment/Education: Paid internship program at Kudumbashree, a poverty reduction program in Kerala, India.
- Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: Engendering the Common's Discourse with the Center for Women's Global Leadership (Rutgers University)
Sulekha Prasad is a graduate of Stony Brook University. She is of South Asian descent, but was born and raised in New York. She has been active in Women's Studies for eight years. Sulekha has worked for the Feminist Majority Alliance of Stony Brook University, Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Association of Stony Brook University, the New York Public Interest Research Group of Stony Brook University, and currently with SAKHI for South Asian Women and Code Pink. Her work has primarily focused on human rights violations of women. On a local level Sulekha has helped educate and orient women who are new immigrants to the U.S., through a program called SAKHI (an anti-domestic violence abuse center).
Parker, Jennifer
- Committee: Jocelyn Elise Crowley, Judith Gerson, Mary Trigg
- Post-MA Employment/Education: Child Protective Services Specialist I, Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, Austin, TX
- Thesis/Practicum: Thesis: A Look is Enough: Interviews with Mothers of Children with Autism
- RU Core Link: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/37545/
Jennifer Parker graduated with honors from Rutgers University in Camden with a B.A. in Women's and Gender Studies. During her undergraduate career, she was awarded a research grant with which she completed a project titled "Mothers of Autistic Children 1940-1978: From Refrigerator Mothers to Neurobiology". With the guidance of Dr. Laurie Bernstein, she inspected how past mental health professionals blamed mothers for their children's autism and traced the etiological shift of the disorder. Jennifer was awarded the Dean's Prize for Undergraduate Research and the Women's Studies Prize for her work on this topic. She participated in and completed the NEW Leadership program run by the Rutgers Center for American Women in Politics, which sparked her interest in women's participation in politics. Jennifer's academic and philanthropic interests are broad, including issues of disability, contemporary and historical constructions of motherhood, women's health, and women and work.
Burke, Jennifer
- Committee: Judith Gerson, Joanna Regulska, Jennifer Jones
- Post-MA Employment/Education: Pursuing PhD in Sociology at University of California - Santa Cruz
- Thesis/Practicum: Thesis: Representing Girl Zines: the Politics of Culture
Maple, Aimee
- Committee: Mary Trigg, Julie Rajan, Cynthia Daniels
- Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: The Doula Project: Comprehensive Reproductive Justice with the Doula Project (New York, NY)
Ditillio, Patricia
- Committee: Leela Fernandes, Harriet Davidson, Jennifer Jones
- Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: Institute for Women's Leadership at The College of New Jersey
Edens-Richardson, Ellen
- Committee: Mary Gossy, Jennifer Jones, Harriet Davidson
- Thesis/Practicum: Thesis: Christian Feminist Healing Rites: The Potential for Women's Healing in Christian Feminist Liturgies, Communal Worship Services, Group Studies, Devotionals, and Public and Private Prayer
Lobo, Lucy
- Committee: Mary Trigg, Julie Ragan, Radhika Balakrishnan
- Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: Culture & Human Rights with POKATUSA Peace & Development Program (Kenya)
Kagal, Neha
- Committee: Savi Bisnath, Mary Hawkesworth
- Post-MA Employment/Education: Pursuing Ph.D. at the School of Oriental and African Studies at University of London, UK under the supervision of Professor Naila Kabeer.
- Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: Social Protection Mechanisms: Protecting Rights & Promoting Equality? with the Center for Women's Global Leadership (Rutgers)
Neha Kagal has a Masters degree in Social Work from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai with a specialization In Public Health and Therapeutic Counselling. She has worked previously with HIV positive women facing violence, and women in prostitution in Mumbai. For the last three years Neha has been working as an Activist with a Trade Union of Ragpickers in Pune, India. Her work involves rights based advocacy with a focus on health and livelihoods. She is interested in issues related to women, violence and development in the Global South. She also enjoys exploring issues around sexuality, intimacy, caste and class.
Coan, Casely
- Committee: Mary Trigg, Stacy Klein, Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel
- Post-MA Employment/Education: Pursuing Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric/Writing Studies at University of Arizona (2013)
- Thesis/Practicum: Thesis: It feels (w)ri(gh)t(e) to me: Feminist Identity and Academic Writing
- RU Core Link: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/37379/
Casely holds a B.A. in English and Women's Studies from Vassar College.