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Ashley Barry
PhD student, 2018-present
Areas of interest: affect theory, feminist film criticism,
Madness Studies, and queer theory.
Stephanie Bonvissuto
PhD student, 2015- present
stephanie.bonvissuto@stonybrook.edu
PhD student, 2015- present
Areas of interest: gender/Sex, Identity Formation and Deployment, Embodiment and Body
Politics, Feminist Theory, Social Psych
ology.
Zoey Chu
PhD student, 2019-present
PhD student, 2019-present
Areas of interest:
gender and sexuality, critical ethnic studies, Taiwan studies, diasporic formations,
postcoloniality, nationalisms and imperialisms, circulation of knowledge, theories
of transnationalism.
April Clark
PhD student, 2020-present
april.clark@stonybrook.edu
Areas of interest: q
ueer theory, trans studies / trans of color critique, critical medical studies / feminist
science studies, history of science, history of psychology
Galia Cozzi Berrondo
PhD student, 2020-present
galia.cozziberrondo@stonybrook.edu
Areas of interest: tr
ansnational feminisms, Queer politics, Migration and mobility in Latin America, Queer
and transgender studies, de/coloniality, Latinx imaginaries, Performance studies
Annu Daftuar
PhD student, 2016-present
Areas of interest: Commercial Surrogacy in India, Globalization and fertility markets,
Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Reproductive Justice and Birth Justice movements,
Transnational Feminisms.
Andy Eicher
PhD student, 2015-present
PhD student, 2015-present
Areas of Interest: q
ueer and feminist theory; crip theory; critical disability studies; neoliberalism;
PrEP; gay/LGBT market; HIV/AIDS; queer visual cultures.
Jose Flores-Sanchez
PhD student, 2019-present
Areas of Interest: d
isability Studies, disability activism and organizing, Feminist Theory, Critical Race
Theory, Prison Abolition, Immigration, Latinx Studies, Sociology.
Hafza Girdap
PhD student, 2020-present
PhD student, 2020-present
Areas of interest: Feminisms and politics, f
eminism and Women
’
s Movements, Gender Equality in Muslim Context through Intersectional Lens, Women in Conflict and
Post-conflict Context, Dislocated Women and Their Interactions with Other Women from
Different Cultures, Religions, Ethnic Groups, Human Rights,
Women
’
s Rights, Youth Involvement in Restructuring the Society in terms of Feminism
Tasmia Haque
PhD student, 2019-present
Areas of Interest: sex
uality, feminism and queer theory, agency, trauma and mental health, critical race
theory, transnational activism.
Tara Holmes
PhD student, 2015-present
PhD student, 2015-present
Areas of interest: visual culture, queer theory, affect theory, and gender and sexuality
in horror films.
Jade Kai
PhD student, 2019-present
Areas of Interest: A
esthetic medicine, Black and African American studies, body/embodiment, care work,
decolonizing methodologies, kinship, queer and trans genders and sexualities.
Valerie Moyer
PhD Student, 2016- present
Areas of interest: critical sports studies, disability studies, queer and feminist
science studies, surveillance studies
Shruti Mukherjee
PhD student, 2014-present
Areas of interest: Anti-militarization movements in Manipur, anti-occupation, grassroots
women’s movements in Global South, contemporary anti-colonial movements, ethnography,
state sponsored violence, fascism, borders and citizenship, security state, secessionist
movements, self determination movements in Kashmir.
Alexandra Novitskaya
PhD student, 2014-present
PhD student, 2014-present
Areas of interest: feminist and queer theory; gender in political science; international LGBT activism;
gender and sexuality in Russia; John Stuart Mill; nationalism; ideologies and propoganda.
Francesa Petronio
PhD student, 2020-present
Areas of interest: p
ost-gay politics and identity; television studies; parasocial interaction; political
activism and social movements; the tactical polyvalence of discourse; alternative
media; adolescence; nostalgia & reactionary populism; critical theory and disability
studies; queer
studies.
studies.
Genie Ruzicka
PhD student, 2020-present
genevieve.ruzicka
@stonybrook.edu
Areas of interest: C
ritical Race Studies, the intersections between race, gender, and sexuality in pop
culture, television studies, consent.
Miranda Saenz
PhD student, 2017-present
Areas of interest: Indigenous Studies, Prison Abolition, Immigration, Chicanx/Latinx
Studies, Bio/Necropolitics- Sterilization and Surrogacy, Disability, Post/Decolonial
Literature
Desi Self
PhD student, 2019-present
Areas of interest: S
urveillance Studies, Critical Studies of Race, Philosophy of Sex, and Radical Pedagogy.
Yesenia Torres
MA student, 2020-present
yesenia.torres
@stonybrook.edu
Areas of interest:
LGBTQ+ Homelessness, Housing and Policy, Immigration, Queer and Feminist theory, Critical
Race Theory, Mental Health and Trauma, Sexuality/ Sex Work
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Melis Umut
Carlos Vazquez
PhD student, 2017-present
Areas of Interest:Critical Race Theory; Black and Latino Studies; Higher Education
Studies; Disability Studies; Queer Theory; Transgender Studies; Masculinity Studie
s
Lizbeth Zuniga
PhD student, 2020-present
Areas of Interest:
Critical Fat Studies; Fat Theory and the medicalization of fat bodies;
Queer Theory;
Critical Race Theory; Jotería Studies; Latinx/a and Xicanx/a Feminisms; Latinxs in
Labor Systems, Disability/Crip Theory.
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Rachel Corbman
PhD, 2019
Dissertation: “Conferencing on the Edge: A Queer History of Feminist Field Formation, 1969-89”
Committee: Victoria Hesford, Liz Montegary, Lisa Diedrich, Nancy Tomes, Kadji Amin, Jennifer
Nash
Benjamin Aaron
MA, 2019
Dissertation:
"Symbolic Codes and Discourses of Whiteness, White Femininity, and Neoliberal Femininity
in Pop Music."
Committee:
Liz Montegary, Nancy Hiemstra, Vicky Hesford
Yalda Nafiseh Hamidi
PhD, 2020
Dissert
ation:
"From Female Patriotism to Diasporic WomanhoodNegotiating Diaspora and Feminist Aspirations."
Committee: Mary Jo Bona, Nancy Hiemstra, Nikolaos Panou, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet
Margaret Hill
MA, 2018
Thesis, "Reproductive Constraint: The Face of Modern Motherhood in an Era of Global Climate
Change/Pollution and Neoliberalism"
Committee: Mary Jo Bona, Ritch Calvin, Kristina Lucenko
Joie Meier
MA, 2018
Thesis, "White Supremacy in the Northeast: Keystone United in Pennsylvania"
Committee: Nancy Hiemstra, Zebulon Miletsky
Placement, Ph.D. student in Gender Studies at Indiana University
Emily Whearty
MA, 2017
MA, 2017
Thesis, "Animating Food: Analyzing Choice, Control, and Disability"
Committee: Michele Friedner, Lisa Diedrich, Mary Jo Bona
Placement, Precinct Advocate at L.I. Against Domestic Violence
Laura Abbasi-Lemmon
MA, 2016
Thesis, "Experiencing and Knowing Pregnant Bodies: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Pregnancy
Texts"
Committee:
Lisa Diedrich, Liz Montegary, Michele Friedner
Placement, Ph.D. student in Women's Studies at UMD
