Graduate Dissertations

2023

Tankut Atuk

Pathologies of Care: HIV Treatment and Prevention in Turkey

Advisors: Susan Craddock

Nina Medvedeva

Home in the Sharing Economy: An Ethnography in Washington D.C., San Francisco, and Boston

Advisor: Aren Aizura

2022

Sayan Bhattacharya

Lifemaking alongside Death: Violence, Care and the Everyday in Trans Communities in India

Advisors: Jigna Desai and Aren Aizura

José Manuel Santillana Blanco

Racial Motherhood Ecologies: Towards a Mapping of Social Life, Violence & Resistance in the Southwest Borderlands

Advisors: Edén Torres and Zenzele Isoke

AK Wright

The Body is Where Freedom Begins: Black Feminist Embodiments of Carcel Abolition

Advisors: Terrion Williamson and Zenzele Isoke

2021

Nithya Rajan

Refugee Refusals: Afghan Women's Experiences of Labor and (Be)longing in India

Advisors: Richa Nagar and Sima Shakhsari

Nick-Brie Guarriello

A Heart So True?: Fame, Relationality, & Personalized Media Production in Pokémon GO

Advisors: Aren Aizura and Laurie Ouellette

Naimah Petigny

The Hold is also an Embrace: Readings in Contemporary Black Feminist Performance

Advisors: Richa Nagar and Zenzele Isoke

2020

Beaudelaine Pierre

Decoloniality and The Politics of Living Haiti: Writing Haiti With Haitian Women

Advisors: Richa Nagar and Zenzele Isoke

Caitlin Gunn

Black Cyborgs: Blackness Narratives in Technology, Speculative Fiction

Advisors: Annie Hill and Jigna Desai

2019

Angela M. Carter

Disabling Trauma: Toward a Crip Critique of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Advisors: Jigna Desai and Jennifer Pierce

Simi Kang

Restoration Imaginaries & Shrimping Futures: Vietnamese/American Fisherfolk Respond to State-Mandated Resilience in Southeast Louisiana

Advisors: Jigna Desai and Karen Ho

Lars Z. Mackenzie

Digitizing Difference: Fraudulence, Gender Non-Conformity, and Data

Advisors: Aren Aizura and Jigna Desai

Joanna Núñez

¡Mi Mamá me Enseño!: Teaching and Learning Mexicana and Chicana Feminisms in the Home

Advisor: Edén Torres

Sam Poindexter

Blueberries and Bruselas: Stories of Race, Gender, and Industrialized Agriculture in Baja California

Advisors: Susan Craddock and Richa Nagar

Jayne Swift

Lusty Ladies: Sex Work and Sex-Positive Politics, 1970-2013

Advisor: Regina Kunzel (Princeton University)

Lusty Lady Oral History Project

2018

Tia-Simone Gardner

Sensing Place: House, Scale, and Humanly Workable Geographies in the Upper Midwest

Advisors: Jigna Desai and Catherine Squires

2017

Shana Ye

The Love That Does Not Speak its Name: Affect and Transnational Knowledge Production of “Queer China”

Advisor: Jigna Desai and Richa Nagar

2016

Katie Bashore

Fail Epics: Race, Gender, and The Narrative Production of Institutional Failure

Advisor: Jigna Desai

Reina Rodriguez

Chicanas/os in Contested Spaces: Communal Forms of Resistance and the Creation of Underground Calmecacs

Advisor: Edén Torres

2015

Brittany Lewis

Manufacturing Urban America: Political Engaged Urban Black Women, Renewed Forms of Political Censorship, and Uneven Landscapes of Power in North Minnepolis, Minnesota

Advisors: Catherine Squires and Edén Torres

Elakshi Kumar

Apprehending Female Masculinity: Globalization and Gender Nonconformity in India

Advisor: Jigna Desai

2014

Michelle Garvey

Restoration's Return in the Age of Climate Change: Toward a Feminist Environmental Justice Response

Advisor: Jacquelyn Zita

2013

Charlotte Karem Albrecht

Peddling Arab American Histories: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Early Syrian American Communities

Advisor: Jigna Desai and Erika Lee

Diane Detournay

The Encounter Between Feminism and Liberalism: An Itinerary of 'Woman'

Advisors: Jigna Desai and Richa Nagar

Aniruddha Dutta

Globalizing through the Vernacular: Gender/sexual Transnationalism and the Making of Sexual Minorities in Eastern India

Advisors: Jigna Desai and Richa Nagar

Xiumei Pu

Imagining the Decolonial Spirit: Ecowomanist Literature and Criticism in the Chinese Diaspora

Advisor: Edén Torres

2012

Patricia Connolly

Staging Cross-Border (Reading) Alliances: Feminist Testimonials at Work

Advisors: Amy Kaminsky and Richa Nagar

Jessica Giusti

Burlesque Female Behemoths: Transgressions of Fat, Femme Burlesque

Advisors: Ananya Chatterjea and Jacquelyn Zita

Yeonbo Jeong

Science, Nation, and Women's Bodies: Economies of Reproductive Tissues and Stem Cell Research in South Korea

Advisors: Susan Craddock and Jacquelyn Zita

2011

Papori Bora

The Nation and its Margins: Reading Gender and the Politics of Sovereignty in India's Northeast

Advisors: Jigna Desai and Richa Nagar

2010

Kandace Creel Falcón

"This is Our Home!": Chicana Oral Histories: (Story) Telling Life, Love and Identity in the Midwest

Advisors: Edén Torres and Lisa Albrecht

Helen Crump

Bodied Knowledges (Where Our Blood Is Born): Maternal Narratives and Articulations of Black Women's Diaspora Identity

Advisors: Amy Kaminsky and Gwen Pough

Eileen Müller-Myrdahl

Orientalist Knowledges at the European Periphery: Norwegian Racial Projects, 1970-2005

Advisors: Jigna Desai

Ayana Weekley

Now That's a Good Girl: The Politics of Respectability in African American HIV/AIDS Discourses

Advisors: Jigna Desai and Gwen Pough

2009

Rachel Raimist

Grinding the Walls to Dust: Feminist Media Praxis

Advisor: Edén Torres

2008

Margalit Chu

Resistance, Dependancy, and Resilience: The Everyday Politics and Geographies of NGO Development in Marginalized Gitano Communities

Advisor: Richa Nagar

2006

Danielle Bouchard

The Feminist Order of Things: Interdiscipilnarity, Globalization, and Postcoloniality in Contemporary Feminist Theory

Advisor: Jigna Desai

Amy Brandzel

Queering the Subject(s) of U.S. Citizenship: Beyond the Normative Citizen in Law and Culture

Advisors: Jigna Desai, Richa Nagar, and Barbara Welke

Dawn Rae Davis

De-colonizing Love: Feminist Subjects and the Ability of Not Knowing

Advisor: Naomi Scheman

2005

Sam Bullington

From the "Rainbow Nation" to the "New Apartheid": Sexual Orientation and HIV/AIDS in Contemporary South African Nation Building

Advisor: Susan Craddock

Sara Hottinger

Making Mathematical Knowledge: A Cultural Study of Late-Eighteenth Century British Mathematics

Advisors: Jacquelyn Zita and Helen Longino

Linda Wayne

Sexes, Genders, and Sexualities: From Second to Third Wave Feminism

Advisors: Ellen-Messer Davidow

2003

Amanda Swarr

Exploring the Boundaries of Gender and Sex: Transgendered Expressions in Contemporary South Africa

Advisors: Amy Kaminsky and Richa Nagar

2002

Sidney Matrix

Inventing Cyberculture and Cybersubjectivity: A Critical Study of Cyberfictional Media

Advisors: John Mowitt and Naomi Scheman