MA Alumni Listing
MA Alumni Listing
Herman, Karen
- Committee: Leela Fernandes, Lynn Warner, Jennifer Jones
- Post-MA Employment/Education: Founder and President, Sky Mountain Wild Horse Sanctuary (Tesuque, New Mexico) PhD in Social Work, Rutgers University
- Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: Feminist Teaching in the Social Work Classroom: One Path for Educating Extraordinary Social Workers
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Karen has worked in academia and community and governmental organizations as an adjunct professor, clinician, researcher, and administrator to promote action on poverty, violence, animal and human rights, and for progressive social change. She has extensive experience in research, strategic planning, program development and evaluation, teaching, and fund development. Karen currently serves as the director of sexual assault services for New Mexico. She is the author of Art, Violence, & Social Change: Challenging Violence Against Women and Girls Through Entertainment Education (2008). |
DasGupta, Ria
- Committee: Daniel Goldstein, Radhika Balakrishnan, Yana Rogers
- Post-MA Employment/Education: Director, Global Village and Peer Academic Leaders program, Douglass Residential College, Rutgers University.
- Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: Women’s Rights as Human Rights and the "End of History:" Contextualizing the Proceeding of the Strategic Conversation on Addressing Gaps in the Defense of Women Human Rights Defender with Women Human Rights Defenders: International Coalition
Ariana 'Ria' Dasgupta is a Douglass Alumna. She has worked as a Program Assistant at the Center for Women's Global Leadership and as an adjunct professor at Brookdale Community College and Georgian Court University. Ria is also co-foudner and principal dancer with Kalamandir Dance Company. She currently directs the Global Village and Peer Academic Leaders program.
Brafman, Rebecca
- Committee: Mary Trigg, Yana Rodgers, Julie Rajan
- Post-MA Employment/Education: Resident Physician in Emergency Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY.
- Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: Tackling Adversity: The Transformative Power of Rugby on the Lives of Teenage Girls with New York Rugby Club (New York, NY)
Rebecca Brafman holds a B.A. from Columbia University in Women's Studies and an M.D. from Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University. She is currently a resident physician in emergency medicine at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Rebecca is also a member of the U.S. Women's Eagles rugby team, a team of U.S.A. Rugby.
Kindley, Nora
- Committee: Jasbir Puar, Jennifer Jones, Judith Gerson
- Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: Lesbian Herstory Archives: Looking at "Theory" in Relation to a Lesbian Feminist Space with Lesbian Herstory Archives (Brooklyn, NY)
Kenney, Sharon
- Committee: Mary Gossy
- Thesis/Practicum: Thesis: Girl Talk: Use of the Internet and the Adolescent Female Body as an Alternative Space of Discourse
Westra, Jennifer Moberly
- Committee: Cynthia Daniels, Susan Carroll, Jennifer Jones
- Post-MA Employment/Education: Administrative Assistant, Community Colleges of Spokane Foundation (Spokane, WA)
- Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: The Politics of Feminism with American Civil Liberties Union
Mukherjee, Mohini
- Committee: Beth Hutchison, Linda Steiner, Jennifer Jones
- Post-MA Employment/Education: Associate Director for International Student Services, Global Affairs, Rutgers University
- Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: Non-Governmental Organizations and their Capacity to Facilitate Social Change: The Empowerment of Women in Musabani, India with The Socio Economic Educational Development Society (Tamilnadu, India)
| Mohini Mukherjee first came to Rutgers as an international student in 1999 to pursue her graduate education after the completing her undergraduate major in English from India. She earned two Master's degrees from Rutgers -- Women's Studies and Human Resource Management. Mohini has worked in various capacities within Residence Life and student services offices at Rutgers before joining the Centers for Global Advancement and International Affairs as an International Student Adviser in August 2006. In her current role as Associate Director for Student Services, she executes the Center’s regulatory compliance responsibilities as they pertain to international students and oversee the coordination of the Center’s student services and programs, including our cornerstone International Student Orientation program. |
Landers, Jessica
- Committee: Ed Cohen, Ethel Brooks, Louisa Schein
- Post-MA Employment/Education: olunteer Coordiantor, Concho Valley Rape Crisis Center, San Angelo, TX. Campaign Associate, United Way Worldwide, San Angelo, TX. On-Call Advocate, Concho Valley Rape Crisis Center, San Angelo, TX
- Thesis/Practicum: Thesis: The Modern Vampire Phenomenon Paradox: Simultaneous Contradictions and Unlimited Limits
- RU Core Link: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/31111/
Jessica Landers received a B.A. from Indiana University in Psychology, Gender Studies, and Human Sexuality. After completing her M.A. at Rutgers, she worked an an on-call advocate at a rape crisis center in Texas and as a campaign associate for the United Way.
Dlamini, Thuli
- Committee: Cheryl Clarke, Judith Gerson, Yana Rodgers
- Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: Spotlight on Girls with Women & Girls in the Media
Chetty, Tara
- Committee: Angelique Hauderud, Ethel Brooks, Yana Rodgers
- Post-MA Employment/Education: Executive Director, Fiji Women's Rights Movement
- Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: Imagining Women Human Rights Defenders: Neoliberalism, NGOs and Transnational Feminist Activism with Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition (Center for Women's Global Leadership
Tara Chetty is a feminist activist from Suva, who has a long history of engagement with the Fiji Women’s Rights Movement. She was a former FWRM Management Board member, Young Women’s Working Group member and a former Communications Officer. Tara left the Movement in 2009, to pursue a Master of Arts in Women’s and Gender Studies in the United States, on a Fulbright scholarship. In the course of her academic research, she worked with the Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition (WHRDIC), then based out of the Centre for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL) at Rutgers University. After graduation in 2011, Tara returned to Fiji and human rights work in the Pacific, with the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Pacific Regional Office.