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M.A. and Ph.D. Students
Kai Breaux
PhD student, 2019-present
Areas of interest:
de/coloniality, critical medical studies, transnational feminism, bio/necropolitics,
gender-sex binary, queer and transgender theory, critical race studies
Ashley Barry
PhD student, 2018-present
Areas of interest: affect theory, feminist film criticism,
Madness Studies, and queer theory.
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: Transnational
feminism, gender politics in East Asian societies
Annu Daftuar
PhD student, 2016-present
Areas of interest: women of color feminisms, reproductive justice movements, feminist
theories and epistemologies, decolonizing methodologies.
Andy Eicher
PhD student, 2015-present
PhD student, 2015-present
Areas of Interest:
Queer 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:
Disability Studies, Disability activism and organizing, Feminist Theory, Critical
Race Theory, Prison Abolition, Immigration, Latinx Studies, Sociology.
Hafza Girdap
MA student, 2019-present
MA student, 2019-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
Yalda Nafiseh Hamidi
PhD student, 2014-present
Areas of Interest:
Transnational Feminism, Critical Race Feminism, Feminist Pedagogy, Middle Eastern
and Islamic Feminism, Iranian Literature and 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.
Allyse Knox-Russell
PhD student, 2014-present
PhD student, 2014-present
Areas of interest: feminist and queer theories; feminist ecological and science studies;
environmental justice and health; indigeneity and settler colonialism; environmental
education and land-based pedagogies; film, media, and performanc
e
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: history of women's movement in South Asia, gendered nationalism
in South Asia, gender and armed conflict, borders and citizenship, sexual and gender
identities, feminist pedagogy of research and gender in international politics.
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.
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:
Surveillance Studies, Critical Studies of Race, Philosophy of Sex, and Radical Pedagogy.
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
Graduate Alumni
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
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