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Dissertation and Thesis List
2020
Morrison, Shannon (MA) Navigating Secret Societies: Black Women in the Commercial Airline Industry
Tobin, Erin Campy Feminisms: The Feminist Camp Gaze in Independent Film
2019
Branfman, Jonathan Millennial Jewish Stars: Masculinity, Racial Ambiguity, and Public Allure
Lee, Juwon (MA) The Globality of the Seoul Queer Culture Festival: Subverting the Neocolonial Queer Narrative
2018
Austin, Sierra Black Girl Genius: Theorizing Girlhood, Identity and Knowledge Production
Cumpstone, Tess (MA) Acts of Public Survival: The Role of Artivism in Exposing the Sexist-Ableist Nexus in Campus Rape Culture
Demiri, Lirika (MA) Stories of Everyday Resistance, Counter-memory, and Regional Solidarity: Oral Histories of Women Activists in Kosova
Rodriguez-Arguelles Riva, Sara Thickening Borders: Deterrence, Punishment, and Confinement of Refugees at the U.S. Border
Serpico, Jaclyn (MA) Age, Race, Parity, and Access to Same-Day IUD Insertion at Obstetrician-Gynecology Practices in Ohio: A Mystery Client Study
2017
Fuller, Denise A. Creating Resistance on the Border: Coalitions and Counternarratives to S.B. 1070
Isoke, Saidah (MA) “Thank God for Hip-hop”: Black Female Masculinity in Hip-hop Culture
Gabbard, Sonnet D. Old Ties and New Binds: LGBT Rights, Homonationalisms, Europeanization and Post-War Legacies in Serbia
Sengupta, Anindita The Desired Baby: Assisted Reproductive Technology, Secrecy, and a Cultural Account of Family Building in India
2016
DasGupta, Debanuj Racial Regulations and Queer Claims to Livable Lives
Livingston, Katherine G. Adoptee Access to Original Birth Certificates and the Politics of Birthmotherhood in Ohio, 1963-2014
Swenson, Haley S. Reproducing Inequality: Cooking, Cleaning, and Caring in the Austerity Age
Tai, Yu-Chen (W)holistic Feminism: Decolonial Healing in Women of Color Literature
Tu, Angela Wen-Chun (MA) The Construction of Legal Credibility for Rape Survivors Who Are International Students
2015
Husain, Taneem Empty Diversity in Muslim America: Religion, Race, and the Politics of U.S. Inclusion
Dean, MacRorie (MA) Affective Intervention: Beyond Campus Rape Prevention
Nieto, Nicole Recipes of Recovery and Rebuilding: The Role of Cookbooks in Post-Katrina New Orleans
2014
Chitnis, Varsha Sanjeev Women’s Lives, Women’s Stories: Examining Caste Through Life History Interviews in Baroda
Day, Allyson L. The Ability Contract The Ideological, Affective, and Material Negotiations of Women Living with HIV
Kaedbey, Dima Building Theory Across Struggles: Queer Feminist Thought from Lebanon
Rossie, Amanda New Media, New Maternities: Representations of Maternal Femininity in Postfeminist Popular Culture
2013
McKee, Kimberly Devon The Transnational Adoption Industrial Complex: An Analysis of Nation, Citizenship, and the Korean Diaspora
Roy, Raili ”Jagoron: Awakening” to Gender in Non Governmental Organizations in Contemporary Bengal
2012
Genetin, Victoria A. Shifting Toward A Spiritualized Feminist Pedagogy: Gloria E. Anzaldúa And Thich Nhat Hanh in Dialogue
Mkhize, Gabisile Promise African Women: An Examination of Collective Organizing Among Grassroots Women in Post Apartheid South Africa
Popielinski, Lea Marie Noncorporeal Embodiment and Gendered Virtual Identity
2011
Brown, Adriane J. Distinctly Digital: Subjectivity and Recognition in Teenage Girls' Online Self-Presentations (2011)
Kock, Stacia L. Towards Inclusion: Expanding And Challenging Citizenship Through Intersectional Antipoverty Activism (2011)
Linder, Kathryn E. Narratives of Violence, Myths of Youth: American Youth Identity in Fictional Narratives of School Shootings (2011)
2010
Brennan, Susan Catherine Cinematic Adaptation and the Problem of Citizenship: Mapping Women’s Diasporic Authorship in a Post-9/11 World
Cochran, Shannon M. Corporeal (isms): Race, Gender, and Corpulence Performativity in Visual and Narrative Cultures
Holmes, Christina M. Chicana Environmentalisms: Deterritorialization as a Practice of Decolonization
Mitchell, Anne Michelle Civil Rights Subjectivities and African American Women’s Autobiographies: The Life-Writings of Daisy Bates, Melba Patillo Beals, and Anne Moody
2009
Isbister, Dong The “Sent-Down Body” Remembers: Contemporary Chinese Immigrant Women’s Visual and Literary Narratives
Smith, Sarah Anne Love, Sex, and Disability: The Ethics and Politics of Care in Intimate Relationships
2008
Johnson, Lakesia Denise The Iconography of the Black Female Revolutionary and New Narratives of Justice
Schrock, Richelle D. Cultural Divides, Cultural Transitions: The Role of Gendered and Racialized Narratives of Alienation in the Lives of Somali Muslim Refugees in Columbus, Ohio