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Women's Studies Alumni Listing

Womens Studies
Student Information
Yun Soo Kim


Judith Lewis


Narysa Sardari
My interests and goals are, to attend law school in a year. Over the next year that I have off of school I plan to get involved in some non-profit organizations along with having an internship at a law firm.

Lia Spirka

Women's Studies GFE Alumni Listing

Graduate Feminist Emphasis
Student Information
Jeremiah Axelrod - Ph.D.: History, Winter 2001
Placement: Adjunct Assistant Professor, Dept of History, Occidental College, CA Dissertation Title: "Toward Autopia: Envisioning the Modern Metropolis in Jazz Age Southern California"

Mariam Beevi - Ph.D.: Comparative Literature, Spring 2006
Placement: Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature/Vietnamese, UC Riverside Dissertation Title: "Surfin' Vietnam: Trauma, Historical Memory, and Cultural Politics in Twentieth Century Literature and Film."

Joe Bergeron - Ph.D.: Political Science, Summer 2008
Placement: Joe Bergeron, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Law, University of Wisconsin Areas of Interest: American politics, gay and lesbian politics, identity politics Dissertation Title: "Social Movement Promotion of Public Policy During Challenging Times."

Joanna Bouldin - Ph.D.: Visual Studies, Spring 2004
Placement: Lecturer, Department of Film and Media Arts, Temple University Dissertation Title: "The Animation and The Actual; Toward a Theory of Animation, Live-Action, and Everyday life."

Kimberly Bowen
M.A. English, Spring 2001

Yvonne Braun - Ph.D.: Social Science, Spring 2005
Placement: Assistant Professor, Dept of Sociology, University of Oregon Dissertation Title: "Feminist Political Ecology in Practice: The Social Impacts of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project."

Lionel Cantu - Ph.D.: Social Science, Summer 1999
Placement: UCSC, Assistant Professror, Deceased Dissertation Title: "Border Crossing: Mexican Men andthe Sexuality of Migration."

Chuan Chen
Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University Areas of Interest: Transpacific postcoloniality, queer feminist studies, philosophy of Enlightenment, experimental and narrative fiction and cinema

Cindy I-Fen Cheng - Ph.D.: History, Spring 2004
Placement: Assistant Professor, Dept of History, Program in Asian American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison Dissertation Title: "Contesting Chinese/American Identities in the Age of Cold War Politics."

Valeria Chow
MA English, Spring 1998

Marnie Dobson - Ph.D.: Social Science, Fall 2005
Placement: Research Associate at the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health at UC Irvine, Associate Director of the Center for Social Epidemiology in Venice, California. Dissertation Title: "Professionalizing Touch: Gender, Sexuality, the Law and Massage Work."

Lan Phuong Duong - Ph.D.: Comparative Literature, Spring 2005
Placement: Assistant Professor, Media and Cultural Studies, UC Riverside Dissertation Title: "Vietnam and the Diaspora: Gender, Nation and the Politics of Collaboration."

Karen Gallagher - Ph.D.: German, Fall 2007
Placement: Lecturer, Marketing, CSU Fullerton Dissertation Title: "Marie Herzfeld (1855-1940) and European Modernism."

Naomi Greysor
Placement: Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and English and on the board of directors of POROI, the project on the rhetoric of inquiry, at the University of Iowa. Dissertation Title: "Sentimental Subjects: Politics of Belonging and the Radical Rhetoric of Modern U.S. Social Reform."

Michelle Grisat - Ph.D.: Philosophy, Summer 2001
Dissertation Title: "On Feminist Agency, Identity, Subjectivity: A Critique of Judith Butler's Radical Democracy in a Performative Mode."

Tamara Harvey - Ph.D.: English, Spring 1998
Placement: Assistant Professor, Women and Gender Studies, George Mason University Dissertation Title: "Modesty's Charge: The Body and Feminist Tactics in Early American Women's Discouse."

Carol Hayes - Ph.D.: English, Summer 2000
Dissertation Title: "Mapping City Comedy: Topographies of London and the Anomalous Woman, 1599-1625."

Susan Hecht - Ph.D.: History, Spring 2000
Dissertation Title: "Technology, Representation and the German Nation, 1900-1929."

Jane Willy Hseu - Ph.D.: English, Summer 2007
Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Dominican University Dissertation Title: "Racialized English(es):On Asian/American and Latino/a Discourses of Language."

Angelica Huizar - Ph.D.: Spanish, Spring 2003
Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, Old Dominion College Dissertation Title: "The Performativity of Latin American Poetry,"

Wiebke Ipsen - Ph.D.: History, Fall 2005
Placement: Assistant Professor, History, University of Maine Dissertation Title: "Delicate Citizenship - Gender and Nationbuilding in Brazil, 1865-1891."

Kyle Julien - Ph.D.: History, Fall 2000
Dissertation Title: "Sounding the City: Jazz, African American Nightlife, and the Articulation of Race in 1940s Los Angeles."

Martha Kadue
Dissertation Title: "We are not an Immigrant Nation": race, Sexuality and Citizenship in the New Germany"

Karen Kendrick - Ph.D.: Social Science, Fall 2004
Dissertation Title: "Health, Beauty and Femininity: An Institutional Ethnography of Cancer Services for Women."

Jennifer Kihnley - Ph.D.: Criminology, Law and Society, Summer 1999
Dissertation Title: "Courting Contradiction: Gender, Law and the Women's Collegiate Basketball."

Patricia Levin - Ph.D.: Visual Studies, Spring 2001
Placement: Assistant Professor, History, Northern Arizonal University Dissertation Title: "About Turns: Minimalism to Excess in the Films of Yvonne Rainer."

Katherine Mack - Ph.D.: Comparative Literature, Spring 2008
Areas of Interest: Rhetoric and composition, theories of publics and public spheres, truth commissions and other transitional justice mechanisms. Dissertation Title: "A Generative Failure: The Public Hearings of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission."

Jennifer Maldonado
MA East Asian Languages and Literatures, Winter 2006

Heather Martel - Ph.D.: History, Winter 2001
Placement: Assistant Professor, History, Northern Arizona University Dissertation Title: "Contact: Christianizing the Soul, Disembodying Science, Americanizing the Flesh, 1498-1627."

Anne Mocarski
MA German, Winter 1996

Chrisy Moutsatsos - Ph.D.: Social Science, Fall 2001
Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Iowa State University Dissertation Title: "Transnational Beauty Culture and Local Bodies: An Ethnographic Account of Consumption and Identity in Urban Greece."

Heather Murray - Ph.D.: Visual Studies, Winter 2008
Dissertation Title: "Monstrous Play in Negative Spaces: The Cultural Production of Biometric Bodies."

Janet Neary - Ph.D.: English, Spring 2009
Placement: Assistant Professor of 19th-c. African American Literature with Hunter College, NY Areas of Interest: African American literature and visual culture (particularly 19th-century), cultural studies, feminist theory Dissertation Title: "Fugitive Testimony: Race, Representation, and the Slave Narrative Form."

Jamie Needleman
MA SOCIAL SCIENCE, Spring 1999

Stella Oh - Ph.D.: English, Spring 2004
Placement: Assistant Professor , Women's Studies, Loyola Marymount College Dissertation Title: "Life Writing and Nation Formation: Contesting Legal and Visual Authority."

Randy Ontiveros - Ph.D.: English, Spring 2006
Placement: Assisant Professor, English, University of Maryland Areas of Interest: Chicana/Chicano Studies; feminist theory; literary and cultural studies Dissertation Title: “Culture, Ethnicity, Memory: the Making of the Chicano Movement.”

Cynthia Maria Ovando-Knutson - Ph.D.: Spanish, Spring 2008
Placement: Spanish Program Director, Fresno Pacific University Dissertation Title: "In Search of a Narrative of HIstory: Embodied Pain and Transformative Allegories in Four Latin American Novels of Dictatorship."

Amy Parsons - Ph.D.: English, Spring 2007
Placement: Assisant Professor, English, University of Wisconsin-Platteville Dissertation Title: "''And a Hundred Other Shadowy Things': Specters of the Transnational in Nineteenth-Century American Literature."

Susan Pinette - Ph.D.: French, Fall 1999
Placement: Director, Franco-American Studies, University of Maine Dissertation Title: "Alternative Ethnographies: Genre and Cultural Encounter in Early Modern French Texts."

Teresa Pond
Placement: Theresa's musical Pinkalicious is performing off-Broadway at New World Stages Theatre Center in New York City MFA Drama, Spring 2003 MFA Thesis Tltle: "A Working Girl's Guide to Bringing Feminist Theater to the Masses."

Vivian Price - Ph.D.: Political Science, Summer 2000
Placement: Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies, CSU- Dominguez Hills Dissertation Title: "Hammering It Out: Community Pressure and Affirmative Action in US Highway Constrcution Projects."

Elizabeth Rayfield - Ph.D.: Visual Studies, Summer 2004
Dissertation Title: 'Her Apparent Admiration and the Intensity of her Gaze: Race, Class and Gender and the Stereocopic Viewing Experience."

Stephanie Reyes-Bell - Ph.D.: History, Spring 2001
Dissertation Title:"Gendered and Racialized Constructions of Alcoholism in the Postwar Era."

Kimberly Richman - Ph.D.: Criminology, Law and Society, Spring 2003
Placement: Assistant Professor, Sociology, University of San Francisco Dissertation Title: "Judicial Narratives in Custody Cases Involving Gay and Lesbian Parents, 1952-1999: A Study of Indeterminacy and Meaning Making in Legal Rationales and Outcomes."

Sarah Ross
MFA Studio Art MFA Thesis Title: "The Shape of a Neighbor(hood)."

Paula Ross
MFA Studio Art MFA Thesis Title : "(Not) In Any Order."

Tracy Sachtjen - Ph.D.: History, Fall 2009
Areas of Interest: Queer theory, feminist theory, nineteenth century cultural history Dissertation Title: "American Ugly: Appearance and Aesthetics in Cultures of U.S. Nationalism, 1848-1915."

Melissa Sanchez - Ph.D.: English, Summer 2002
Placement: Assistant Professor, English, University of Pennsylvania Dissertation Title: "Monstrous Eros: A Reconsideration of Seventeenth- Century British Romance."

Lisa Sanchez - Ph.D.: Criminology, Law and Society, Spring, 1998
Placement: Assistant Professor, Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego Dissertation Title: "Sex, Violence, Citizenship, and Community: An Ethnography and Legal Geography of Commercial Sex in One American City."

Nichole Sanders - Ph.D.: History, Summer 2003
Placement: Assistant Professor, History, Lynchburg College, Virginia Dissertation Title: "Gender, Welfare and the 'Mexican Miracle': The Politics of Modernization in Post Revolutionary Mexico, 1937-1958."

Jacqueline Scoones - Ph.D.: English, Summer 2000
Placement: Assistant Professor, English, Skidmore College Dissertation Title: "Dwelling Poetically: Environmental Ethics in Contemporary Fiction."

Priya Shah - Ph.D.: English, Fall 2008
Placement: Lecturer, Asian American Studies, UC Irvine Dissertation Title: "Consuming Empire: Desire in Colonial Britain and India, 1789-1872."

Elisabeth Sherratt
MA Visual Studies, Spring 2000

Jennifer Thompson - Ph.D.: Comparative Literature, Spring 2000
Placement: Assistant Professor of Humanities, Embry-Riddle University Dissertation Title: "Realizing Rape."

Donna Tong - Ph.D.: English, Spring 2009
Areas of Interest: Asian American literature, multi-ethnic literatures of the U.S., Caribbean literature Dissertation Title: "English lessons: Racial Hegemony and Linguistic Hierarcies in Selected Asian American Texts."

Charlene Tung - Ph.D.: Social Ecology, Spring 1999
Placement: Dept Chair and Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies, Sonoma University Dissertation Title: "The Social Reproductive Labor of Filipina Transmigration Workers in Southern California: Caring for Those Who Provide Elderly Care."

Pilar Valero-Costa - Ph.D.: Spanish, Spring 2002
Placement: Assistant Professor, Spanish, CSU- Fullerton Dissertation Title: "La Mistica Sufi En Maria Zambrano."

Neha Vora - Ph.D.: Anthropology, Summer 2008
Placement: Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Texas A&M Dissertation Title: "Participatory Exclusion: the Emirati State, Forms of Belonging, and Dubai's Indian Middle Class."

Kassia Wosick-Correa - Ph.D.: Sociology, Fall 2007
Areas of Interest: Sexuality, gender, intimate relationships, nonmonogamies, inequality, race/ethnicity Dissertation Title: "The New Fidelity: How Monogamous and Explicitly Nonmonogamous Relationships Negotiate Love, Commitment, and Sexual Intimacy."

Chiou Ling Yeh - Ph.D.: History, Spring 2001
Placement: Assistant Professor, History, San Deigo State University Dissertation Title: "Taking it to the Streets: Representations of Ethnicity and Gender in San Francisco's Chinese New Year Festivals, 1953-2001."

Sandrine Zerbib - Ph.D.: Sociology, Winter 2006
Placement: Assistant Professor, Sociology, Saint Cloud University Dissertation Title: "French Sexual Citizenship in the Context of the European Union: The Effects of PACS Domestic Partnership Law and Immigration Policies on Bi-National Gay Couples."