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| Name | Major/Dept. |
| Zahra Ahmed | Political Science |
| Areas of Interest: Political psychology, specifically service learning and its implications for citizenship and democracy |
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| Cortney L. Aponte | Anthropology |
| Areas of Interest: Feminist anthropology and the social and cultural studies of science and technology, particularly in the regulation of human reproduction and reproductive technologies through public policy and state intervention; the roles science and technology play in the production of public policy |
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| Joe Bergeron | Political Science |
| Areas of Interest: American politics, gay and lesbian politics, identity politics |
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| Chuan Chen | Comparative Literature |
| Areas of Interest: Transpacific postcoloniality, queer feminist studies, philosophy of Enlightenment, experimental and narrative fiction and cinema |
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| Kelly Corwin | English |
| Area of Interest: 17th Century British Drama and Politics |
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| Heather Goldsworthy | Social Ecology |
Areas of Interest: Women and environment, human security, environmental degradation and social change
Proposed Dissertation: Environmental change and forced displacement in Bangladesh |
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| Jane Griffin | Comparative Literature |
| Areas of Interest: Post-dictatorship women's literature of Latin America's Southern Cone region and Spain, in particular the relationship between women's writings, women's political activism, and state transformations from dictatorships to democracies |
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| Tara Hardinge | Sociology |
| Areas of Interest: Gender, family, media and sexuality |
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| Kathryn Henneberger | Criminology, Law and Society |
| Areas of Interest: Transnationalism, citizenship, social deviance, extremism, race critical and feminist theory |
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| Yuka Kanno | Visual Studies |
Areas of Interest: Feminist film theory, queer studies, queer film criticism, theories of
representation, visuality, and embodiment; queer/lesbian visual subjectivity in Japanese visual culture |
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| Katherine Mack | Comparative Literature |
| Areas of Interest: Rhetoric and composition, theories of publics and public spheres, truth commissions and other transitional justice mechanisms |
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| Kurt MacMillan | History |
| Areas of Interest: Modern European and Latin American intellectual histories, science and embodiment, post-structural critiques of historical practice; the history of constitutional medicine and its relationship to racial discourse in Latin America |
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| Erin Moran | Anthropology |
| Areas of Interest: Migration, citizenship, gender, and sexuality; focus on relationship between immigration policy and refugee women’s subjectivity in Ireland, particularly the impact of the 27th Amendment to the Constitution of Ireland |
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| Tracy Sachtjen | History |
Areas of Interest: Queer theory, feminist theory, nineteenth century cultural history
Dissertation Title: American Ugly: The Production of Ugliness in American Culture |
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| Donna Tong | English |
| Areas of Interest: Asian American literature, multi-ethnic literatures of the U.S., Caribbean literature |
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| Victoria Wilson | Political Science |
| Areas of Interest: Feminist theory, minority politics, race/ethnicity, particularly why race liberation orientated social movements both react to and reinscribe essentialized ideologies of gender |
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| Kassia Wosick-Correa | Sociology |
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. |
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