MA Alumni Listing
MA Alumni Listing
Wisniewski, Tara
- Committee: Samira Kawash, Arlene Stein, Beth Hutchison
- Post-MA Employment/Education: Senior Director of Corporate Development, Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers, NYC
- Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: Mapping Feminist Theory and Litigation: Minors' Sex, Privacy Rights, and the Issue of "Consent" with Center for Reproductive Rights (NYC)
| Tara Wisniewski completed her M.A. in May 2005. She began work at the Center for Reproductive Rights in 2001 as a Development Associate and was promoted to Foundation Relations Manager in 2005. She later served in positions at Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan New Jersey and the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. In addition to this work, she also has a husband and a daughter. |
Bent, Emily
- Committee: Joanna Regulska, Mary Trigg, Mary Hartman
- Post-MA Employment/Education: Assistant Professor, Department of Women's and Gender Studies, Pace University, NYC
- Thesis/Practicum: Thesis: Differential Consciousness and the (Re)Translation of Women's Leadership Programs: From Theory to Practice and Back Again
| Dr. Emily Bent earned a doctorate in Global Women's Studies from the National University of Ireland, Galway in 2013. Her dissertation explored girls' political subjectivity and agency at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. She also holds a BA from The College of New Jersey. Her research interests include girls' political agency, youth activism, feminist theories, girls' human rights, third and fourth wave feminist activism, and transnational and global girlhoods. |
Grossman, Suzanne
- Committee: Joanna Regulska, Mary Gossy, Ethel Brooks
- Post-MA Employment/Education: Depty Director of Career Services & Alumni Affairs, Baruch College School of Public Affairs, New York, NY Private Career Consultant
- Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: Ireland and Abortion: An Analysis of a Social Movement with the Irish Family Planning Association (Dublin, Ireland)
| Suzanne Grossman is a Brooklyn-based writer, job search coach, and women's leadership specialist. She is a founder of Love Your Job (LYJ), a series of classes and workshops that support women in achieving fulfilling work at the compensation they deserve. She also advises college students, teaching them practical skills and sharing information on how to make the leap to satisfying careers. Suzanne has held professional roles at Omega Women's Leadership Center, Institute for Women’s Leadership at Rutgers University and Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership. Suzanne has a BA in Psychology from Tufts University in addition to an Master’s degree in Women's and Gender Studies from Rutgers University. She has worked at the Irish Family Planning Association in Dublin and the Center for Reproductive Rights in NY. Suzanne is an avid Irish music fiddle player and one of the original founders of the Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls. |
Bhargava, Valsala Kumar
- Committee: Joanna Regulska, Charlotte Bunch
- Post-MA Employment/Education: Executive Director, Kudumbashree State Poverty Eradication Mission, Kerala, India
- Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: Center for Rural Studies and Development (Anantapur, India)
Valsala Kumar Bhargavi is a feminist activist and a civil servant working for the Government of Kerala, India. She served as the Director of the Social Welfare Department in charge of Women and Children in Kerala state for 3 years and was subsequently appointed as Secretary of the Statutory Women's Commission of Kerala for 2 years. In 1999, she was the recipient of the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship awarded by the US Government for mid-career professionals with proven track record of leadership. Under the auspices of the Humphrey Fellowship, she completed a Master's in Planning and Urban Development at the Bloustein School of Rutgers University. After completing her M.A. in Women's and Gender studies at Rutgers, she went on to pursue a PhD in the department, which she completed in 2011.
Yu-Lee, Jiwoon
- Committee: Ethel Brooks, Joanna Regulska, Mary Hawkesworth
- Post-MA Employment/Education: Pursuing PhD in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at University of Washington
- Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: Intersections of politics of identity, politics of location, and politics of translation in transnational feminist practices with Femininst Journal IF (Seoul, South Korea)
Jiwoon Lee holds a B.A. in English from Kongju National University and is currently Jiwoon is currently undertaking dissertation field research on feminized janitorial labor in Seoul, South Korea. Her research juxtaposes 1970’s female factory workers’ struggle in the export industry with the contemporary struggle of female janitorial workers under the neoliberal labor regime, attempting to explain the changing gendered and racial division of labor, particularly looking at the rhetoric of labor struggles and legal reforms. Areas of her study include Marxist theories, transnational feminisms, studies on intimacy and modernity, and critiques of neoliberalism.
Montegary, Elizabeth
- Committee: Mary Hawkesworth, Louisa Schein, Ethel Brooks
- Post-MA Employment/Education: Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory, Stony Brook University
- Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: Transnational Feminisms and Virtual North America with Centre on North American Politics and Society (Ottowa, Ontario)
| Liz Montegary received her Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from the University of California, Davis and her M.A. in Women’s and Gender Studies from Rutgers University. Her research and teaching interests include feminist and queer cultural studies, transnational American studies, LGBT activist movements, the militarization of everyday life, and mobility, dis/ability, and the body. |
Pipes, Kristen
- Committee: Mary Hawkesworth, Joanna Regulska, Mary Gossy
- Post-MA Employment/Education: Purchasing Coordinator, KLW Plastics (Monroe, OH) Assistant Director, Women's Center, Miami University Corporate Programs Director, Institute for Women's Leadership & Institute for Women and Work (Rutgers University)
- Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: The Lilith Camp Program: The Context of Adolescence, Effective Strategies, and Future Steps with The Lilith Camp Program (Turkey)
Ragonese, Marisa
- Committee: Judith Gerson, Joanna Regulska, Mary Gossy
- Post-MA Employment/Education: Research Assistant, CUNY Graduate Center and Silberman School of Social Work, Hunter College Adjunct Instructor, Silberman School of Social Work, Hunter College Program Director, Queens Community House (Forest Hills, NY)
- Thesis/Practicum: Thesis: No Man's Land: Lesbians, the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, and Camp Trans
| Marisa Ragonese is pursuing a PhD in Social Welfare at CUNY Graduate Center. Prior to the M.A. at Rutgers, Marisa received a B.A. in Women's and Gender Studies from NYU. |
Richardson, Sharice
- Committee: Dee Garrison, Barbara Balliet, Mary Hawkesworth
- Post-MA Employment/Education: Assistant Dean of First Year Students, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers University
- Thesis/Practicum: Thesis: Locating Female Participation in American Indian Uprisings in South Dakota and Nebraska, 1972-1973
Smith, Amanda
- Committee: Elizabeth Grosz, Mary Hartman, Barbara Balliet
- Thesis/Practicum: Thesis: Fake-ing It: Toward a Genealogy and Appropriation of a Discourse on the Female Orgasm