Laura Harrison
Admitted: 2006
BA 2005 - University of Iowa
Major(s): Psychology and Women’s Studies
Areas of Interest: gender, sexuality and the family; representations of motherhood in the mass media and US popular culture; race, class and the body
Concentration: Cultural Representations and Media Practices
Brandon Hill
Admitted: 2006
BA 2006 - Indiana University Bloomington
Major(s): Gender Studies; Minor(s) Biology
Areas of Interest: socio-biological approaches to the study of gender and human sexuality; sexual ‘orientation’ and its relation to definitions of sexual and mental health; social norms and their relation to the process of sexual identity formation in non-western cultures; comparative transnational analysis
Concentration: Medicine, Science, and Technologies of the Body
Yu-Ying “Lauren” Hu
Admitted: 2006
BA 2002 - National Taiwan University
Major(s) - Foreign Language and Literature
MA 2005 - National Taiwan University
Major(s) - Foreign Language and Literature
Areas of Interest: lesbian identity and queer youth culture in contemporary Taiwan; structural contingencies of the butch/femme aesthetic; various modes of critical analysis, including queer theory, deconstruction and psychoanalytic theory
Concentration: Sexualities, Desires, and Identities
Bradley Lane
Admitted: 2006
BA 2001 - Lambuth University
Major(s) - English; Minor(s): European Studies
M.Ed 2005 - Vanderbilt University
Major(s) - Language, Literacy and Culture; Minor(s): Gender Studies
Areas of Interest:
sexuality and the body in contemporary visual culture; cultural politics of twentieth century sexuality; feminist and queer pedagogy; new media, popular culture, and the arts
Concentration: Cultural Representations and Media Practices
Sarah Rowley
Admitted: 2006 (double PhD with History)
BA 2006 - University of Arkansas
Major(s) - History and European Studies; Minor(s): Gender Studies
Areas of Interest: Nineteenth-and Twentieth-Century U.S. Women's History; First-wave feminism; History of age-of-consent legislation; The Women's Club Movement; Turn-of-the-Century Black Middle-class Race Uplift Rhetoric; Borders, Liminality, and Sites of Transgression in the History of Sexuality in the U.S.
Concentration: Sexualities, Desires and Identities
Emily Schusterbauer
Admitted: 2006
BA 2003 - University of Michigan
Major(s) - Art History and Women’s Studies
MA 2006 - Ohio State University
Major(s) - Women’s Studies
Areas or Interest: literary and cultural representations of violence against women; autobiography; narratives of trauma; representation as a social and political act
Concentration: Cultural Representations and Media Practices
Cierra Olivia Thomas-Williams
Admitted: 2006
BA 2005 - Eastern Oregon University
Major(s) - Anthropology and Sociology; Minor(s): Gender Studies
Areas of Interest: representations of women of color in the mass media; feminist theory and activism; LGBT studies; comparative critical theory
Concentration: Cultural Representations and Media Practices
Jessica Wall
Admitted: 2006 (double PhD with History)
BA 2006 - University of Nebraska Lincoln
Major(s) - History and Women’s Studies
Areas of Interest: history of contraception and the reproductive rights movement in the US; the role of men in women’s history and feminist political struggles, especially legal struggles; history of gender and sexuality
Concentration: Medicine, Science, and Technologies of the Body
Stacy Weida
Admitted: 2006
BA 2003 - Purdue University
Majors(s) - English; Minor(s): Women’s Studies and Religious Studies
MA 2005 - Purdue University
Major(s) - American Studies; Minor(s): Women’s Studies
Areas of Interest: textual representations of the sexed and gendered body, especially the ways in which texts are used by institutions to formulate class-based appeals and to forge ideological solidarities among disfranchised groups; religious discourse; feminist theory and activism in a global and transnational context
Concentration: Cultural Representations and Media Practices
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