MA Alumni Listing
MA Alumni Listing
Miele, Julie
- Committee: Barbara Balliet, Ed Cohen, Harriet Davidson
- Post-MA Employment/Education: Assistant Principal, NYC Department of Education, Sunset Park High School, NYC
- Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: Media Literacy with Girls, Inc. (NYC)
Julie Miele came to Rutgers from Glendale, New York, where she has lived for most of her 28 years. She is a graduate of Hunter College of the City University of New York, where she earned a Bachelor of the Arts in English and Secondary Education in 1999. While at Hunter, Julie began her career as a teacher, tutoring at the college's Writing Center and instructing an undergraduate writing course. For the last five years, she has been a high school teacher in New York City teaching English Language Arts both to American students and to foreign students for whom English is a second language. Her professional goal is to combine her background in education with her interest in gender studies to teach others - particularly women - to read literature, to write, to think critically, to appreciate the history of women and to understand and overcome the challenges that women face today. Her interests include reading, writing, traveling, the media, and all things natural. Julie conducted her practicum at the Girls Inc Media Literacy Program in New York City.
Woodruff, Elizabeth
- Committee: Mary Hawkesworth, Harriet Davidson, Elizabeth Grosz
- Thesis/Practicum: Thesis: Writing the Body in Literature and Art
In the spring of 2001 Elizabeth graduated from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington with a BA in Global Development Studies. Eager to apply a critical feminist lens to areas of inquiry imbued in analyses of commodification, power, and resistance, Elizabeth began work in the Women's and Gender Studies Department at Rutgers as a member of the first incoming class of Ph.D. students in the fall of 2002. Since then, Elizabeth decided to pursue an M.A. degree and received it in October. Her area of sustained study is the corporeality of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. She began field-work in Mexico in the summer of 2004 supported by a grant from the North American Mobility Project. She is deeply committed to contributing to feminist writings on embodiment, especially as they relate to theories of resistance and pedagogy. She has taught the W&GS undergraduate introductory course and a theory course. She is currently attempting to integrate her research interests and academic training with a career in radio journalism as a form of creative praxis. Elizabeth is the mother of a budding feminist; two-year-old River Woodruff.
Bain, Amy
- Committee: Cynthia Daniels, Sue Carroll, Jane Junn
- Post-MA Employment/Education: Senior Policy Associate, Center for Women Policy Studies, Washington, D.C.
- Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: Creating Asian Women Space on the Rutgers Campus
Amy Bain received a B.A. from UC Berkeley. After completing her M.A., she worked as an International Advocacy Officer with the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women in Bangkok.
Collard, Andrea
- Committee: Jennifer Jones, Samira Kawash, Stacy Klein
- Thesis/Practicum: Thesis: On Her Knees: Eros and Elation in the Life of Mary of Egypt
| Andrea Collard graduated in January 2005 with a Master of Arts in Women's and Gender Studies, and a Certificate in Medieval Studies. She defended her thesis in December 2004. Andrea has worked as an adjunct professor of English at Middlesex County College in Edison, New Jersey, and also as a data entry operator at Rutgers University Alumni Records and Gifts Processing. She looks forward to eventually pursuing a PhD in an interdisciplinary field; she has a myriad of interests, and she hasn't settled on one area as yet. | |
Dahl, Ingrid
- Committee: Ethel Brooks, Judith Gerson, Mary Trigg
- Post-MA Employment/Education: Director of Next Gen Programs, Bay Area Video Coalition
- Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: "I Want to Rock Out!" On Acting Rather than Appearing: The Rock n' Roll Camp for Girls with Rock n' Roll Camp for Girls (NYC)
| Ingrid directs all Next Generation (youth) programs at BAVC. Formerly a program officer of youth media and editor-in-chief of Youth Media Reporter at the Academy for Educational Development, Ingrid has extensive knowledge of the youth media field as an intermediary, leading a National Youth Media Summit in 2009 and the GFEM Investing in Youth Media funder briefing. She also has a history of working with youth on the ground, launching a middle grade "Youth Create Media Project" throughout the boroughs in New York City and Newark, NJ; and, she is a founding member of the Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls (Brooklyn, NY) where she teaches girls expression/empowerment through music and collaboration. Dahl lectures nationally and internationally on youth media, gender and music, and social change. She has also taught courses at Rutgers University on imagery and culture, media and pop culture, as well as created her own course on Riot Grrrl and public speaking at the Barnard Center for Research on Women. |
Khshieboun, Sana
- Committee: Louisa Schein, Jasbir Puar, Charlotte Bunch
- Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: Women, War and Peace with UN Development Fund for Women
Mawenya, Jemima
- Committee: Meredith Turshen, Dorothy Hodgson, Charlotte Bunch
- Post-MA Employment/Education: Meeting Planner, American Public Transportation Association, Washington, D.C.
- Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: Women and Inheritance Laws in Tanzania with International Senior Lawyers Project (NYC)
Merelan, Simpdy
- Committee: Cheryl Clarke, Wesley Brown, Harriet Davidson
- Post-MA Employment/Education: Crisis Services Manager, DC Rape Crisis Center, Washington, D.C.
- Thesis/Practicum: Thesis: Speaking the Unspeakable: Trauma, Memory, and Articulations of Black Women's Subjectivity in the Works of Edwidge Danticat, Gayl Jones, and Toni Morrison
| Simpdy Merelan, a Haitian-American woman from Neptune, New Jersey, graduated from Rutgers University with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Africana Studies in 2002 and an M.A. degree in October 2005. As Department of Justice Grant/Sexual Assault Response and Prevention Program Coordinator, Ms. Merelan coordinated sexual assault prevention efforts at Bowie State University. She was also responsible for conducting sexual and dating violence outreach on campus. Prior to Bowie State University, she served in various student and academic affairs capacities. She acted as an Academic Counselor for Mercer County Community College, Residence Director for Rutgers University - Douglass College Office of Residence Life, a Residential Director for the Upward Bound Program at University of Maryland-Baltimore County, and a Part-time Lecturer for the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Rutgers University. Ms. Merelan also served as a volunteer domestic violence and sexual assault victim advocate for a non-profit organization that provides resources to those affected by domestic violence and sexual assault, Womanspace, Inc. |
Shipley, Amber
- Committee: Susan Carroll, Mary Hawkesworth, Judith Gerson
- Post-MA Employment/Education: Director, Barbary Coast Consulting, San Francisco, CA
- Thesis/Practicum: Thesis: Practical Theory and Feminist Politics: An Analysis of Feminist Political Organizations and the Current Women's Electoral Movement
| Amber Shipley graduated from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington in 2000 with a degree in politics. She spent the next four years working with nonprofit organizations in Seattle and New York including: Women's Funding Alliance, Washington Community Alliance for Self-Help (CASH), SMARTgirls, Girls Incorporated, and SeattleWomen.org, an organization she founded. Amber also managed the re-election campaign for a State Representative in Washington State and participated in a nine month program for future Democratic leaders. These experiences helped develop her interest in women and politics, which she pursued as a Master's degree student in the Women's and Gender Studies program. Amber also received a Master's in Public Policy with a concentration in Women and Public Policy and worked with Center on Women and Public Policy at the Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota. |
Lochner, Rosalie Siemon
- Committee: Harriet Davidson, Mary Gossy, Jasbir Puar
- Post-MA Employment/Education: Visiting Instructor, Department of Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University
- Thesis/Practicum: Thesis: No One is Never the Other: Translation and an Ethics of Cohabitation in Difference
| Rosalie Siemon Lochner earned a B.A. degree in Philosophy from Boston University, and has M.A. degrees in Women’s and Gender Studies from Rutgers University and in Philosophy from DePaul University, where she is completed her Ph.D in 2013. Her dissertation is titled: “Arendt and Spivak: A Feminist Approach to Political Worlding and Appearing.” Her work concentrates on political, ethical and feminist issues. She also works on questions related to child agency in medical ethics. Her M.A. theses considered the ethical dimensions of Martin Heidegger and Gayatri Spivak and the ethical and political margins in Sophocles’ Antigone. She enjoys reading and contributing to food blogs, hiking with her family, and distance running. |