MA Alumni Listing

• Committee: Mary Hawkesworth
• Post-MA Employment/Education: Pursuing Ph.D. in Sociology at Indiana University (2014)
• Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: Politicizing Global Health Inequailty

Amelia holds a B.A. in Sociology from Penn State, and she worked as an AmeriCorps Youth and Community Outreach Coordinator with the American Red Cross, Greater Steuben Chapter prior to her time at Rutgers.

• Committee: Mary Hawkesworth
• Post-MA Employment/Education: Pursuing Ph.D. in Sociology at Columbia Univeristy (2014)
• Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: Epistemologies Incarnate: Organizational Systems for Prison Abolitionists with Justice Now (Oakland, CA)

Joss Greene received his B.A. from Scripps College with a dual major in History and Gender & Women's Studies. His most exciting intellectual work has arisen at the synthesis of his political, creative, academic interests. In his undergraduate years, these projects included examining the racialized citizenship discourses circulating around people with HIV/AIDS and exploring the erasure of race and class differences in the positioning of transgender students as a threat to "shared womanhood" at women's colleges. After graduating college, Joss began working at a San Francisco high school, performed a new dance piece about privilege and representation of trans experience, and deepened his commitment to grassroots queer politics.

• Committee: Louisa Schein, Abena Busia, Julie Rajan
• Post-MA Employment/Education: Pursuing Ph.D. in Gender Studies at Indiana University (2014)
• Thesis/Practicum: Thesis: The Displays, Silences, and Aesthetic Possibilities of Museum Fashion's Gendered Geopolitics
• RU Core Link: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/44110/

Daniela Gutiérrez was born in Bogotá, Colombia, where she lived most of her life, except for her elementary school years, when she lived in Piscataway, NJ, and Raleigh, North Carolina. For her bachelor's degree, she majored in Literature, particularly researching gender issues in 19th century French and English, and 20th century Latin American authors.

• Committee: Joanna Regulska, Barbara Callaway, Harriet Davidson
• Post-MA Employment/Education: Faculty of Political Science and Director of the Center for Gender and Politics, University of Belgrade PhD in Political Philosophy, Rutgers University
• Thesis/Practicum: Thesis: Gender Perspectives on the Reconstruction of Political Identities in Yugoslavia

Daša Duhaček holds a PhD in Political Philosophy from Rutgers University. She is the Coordinator of the MA program in Gender Studies and and the Director of the Center for Gender and Politics at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade. She also founded and coordinates the Belgrade Women’s Studies Center. Gordana is currently Director of the Course in Feminist Criticism at Inter-University  Center IUC - Dubrovnik. She taught at the Rutgers  University, USA, Central European University (CEU) in  Budapest, Hungary, and others. Her research areas include feminist  theory and political philosophy.

• Committee: Judith Gerson, Mary Trigg, Marisa Fuentes
• Thesis/Practicum: Thesis: Prevention or Perpetuation: An Analysis of Youth Sexual Violence Prevention Programs
• RU Core Link: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/42367/

• Committee: Louisa Schein, Barbara Callaway, Sherry Gorelick
• Post-MA Employment/Education: Professor, Bangmok College of Basic Studies, Myong Ji University, Seoul, South Korea PhD, Women's Studies, Clark University (2000)
• Thesis/Practicum: Thesis: The Relationship Between Feminis and Nationalism in Korea

Insook Kwon is a Professor in the College of Bangmok Basic Studies at Myongji University, South Korea. She received her doctoral degree in women’s studies at Clark University. Her research interests are masculinities,women and militarism, and state-centered nationalism. Currently, she is working on a new project regarding military nurses.

• Committee: Julie Rajan
• Post-MA Employment/Education: Pursuing Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, FL (2015) Women with Pride Coordinator, Pride Center in South Florida
• Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: Personal Narratives: Finding Universality in Our Lived Experiences with the Tyler Clementi Center (Rutgers)

Roya received a B.A. in Psychology with double minors in Substance Abuse and Women and Gender Studies from Ramapo College of NJ. After completing her M.A., she worked as the Women with Pride Coordinator at the Pride Center in South Florida. Roya was accepted into the Clinical Psychology PhD program at Nova Southeastern University and will begin her studies Fall 2015.

• Committee: Nancy Hartsock, Harriet Davidson
• Thesis/Practicum: The Building of Graduate Programs in Women's Studies

• 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: Sherry Gorelick, Louise Barnett, Dawn Esposito, Barbara Callaway
• Post-MA Employment/Education: Administrative Public Information Specialist, Department of Homeless Services, New York City
• Thesis/Practicum: Not Quite White, Not Quite Black

Barbara Brancaccio served as the Executive Deputy Commissioner for Public Information at the New York City Department of Social Services/Human Resources Administration. As the agency’s chief spokesperson and communications director, Brancaccio serves as liaison to the Mayor’s press office and is a principal advisor to the agency’s Commissioner. Prior to her appointment in 2006, Brancaccio was Executive Director for WomenCare Inc. and College and Community Fellowship, two nonprofit organizations for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women. Brancaccio served as the Treasurer of the Advisory Board for Bayview Correctional Facility and is a Founding Board Member for the Learning Center for Women in Prison, a college program sponsored by Bard College for women incarcerated at the facility. Additionally, Brancaccio curated the Film Festival at the 10th National Roundtable for Women in Prison,and produced Surviving Justice: The Women in Prison Film Showcase, held in 2001 at Anthology Film Archives in New York City. Brancaccio began her career as Special Assistant to New York City Council Member Ronnie Eldridge, and in 2005 she was the Campaign Manager for New York City Council member Margarita Lopez, a candidate for Manhattan Borough President. With Joshua Zeman, she co-directed the documentary Cropsey (2009).