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Graduate Alumni
Benjamin Aaron - MA, 2019
Thesis: "Symbolic Codes and Discourses of Whiteness, White Femininity, and Neoliberal Femininity
in Pop Music."
Committee: Liz Montegary, Nancy Hiemstra, Vicky Hesford
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
Ashley Barry - PhD, 2024
Dissertation: "In/Sane On Screen: Mad Films and the Psychicatric Gaze"
Committee: Lisa Diedrich, Vicky Hesford, Rtich Calvin, Kathleen Vernon, Elizabeth Donaldson
Stephanie Bonvissuto - PhD, 2022
Dissertation: "Making Room for Queer Spatiality: Discursive Designs of All-Gender Spaces"
Committee: Nancy Hiemstra, Cristina Silva, Mary Jo Bona, Liz Montegary, Jamie Hartless
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
Andy Eicher - PhD, 2024
Dissertation: “Profligate Homosexuals:HIV/AIDS, Personal Responsibility, and Drugs into Bodies"
Committee: Lisa Diedrich, Liz Montegary, Pamela Block
Yalda Nafiseh Hamidi - PhD, 2020
Dissertation: "From Female Patriotism to Diasporic Womanhood: Negotiating 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
Tara Holmes - PhD, 2024
Dissertation: 'Let's Not Get Caught, Let's Keep Going': Mainstream Cinema and Queer Viewing Practices
in the 1990's
Committee: Liz Montegary, Lisa Diedrich, Kathleen Vernon
Joie Meier - MA, 2018
Thesis: "White Supremacy in the Northeast: Keystone United in Pennsylvania"
Committee: Nancy Hiemstra, Zebulon Miletsky
Shruti Mukherjee - PhD, 2022
Dissertation: "Living with Militarization: The Politics of Refusal and Loss in Manipur"
Committee: Joseph Pierce, E.K. Tan, Haley Duschinski, Naisargi N. Dave
Valerie Moyer - PhD, 2022
Dissertation: "Muscles, Testosterone, and Other 'Threats' to Women's Sport"
Committee: Lisa Diedrich, Liz Montegary, Pam Block, Toby Beauchamp
Alexandra Novitskaya - PhD, 2022
Dissertation: "New queer dissidents: Politics and geopolitics of post-Soviet LBGTQ migration and
asylum"
Committee: Nancy Hiemstra, Liz Montegary, Isabela Kalinowska-Blackwood, Janet Elise Johnson
Miranda Saenz - MA, 2022
Thesis:"Dis(ease) [sick]: An Examination of the Role of Space in Black and Indigenous Health"
Committee: Nancy Hiemstra, Liz Montegary, Pam Block
Melis Umut - PhD, 2024
Dissertation: "Erotic Visuality in Popular Culture in a Conservative Society: 1970's Turkish Erotic
Melodramas and the Muslim Sexual Imagination
Committee:
Emily Whearty - MA, 2017
Thesis: "Animating Food: Analyzing Choice, Control, and Disability"
Committee: Michele Friedner, Lisa Diedrich, Mary Jo Bona