2016

• Research Interests: Black Women's studies; media and popular culture; hip hop; sexuality; gender; the power of words/reinforcing images.
• Education: Spelman College with a BA in English.

Cultivating more emancipatory spaces in public education to bring forth the histories and narratives of queer students and students of color, outside the gender binary, which more closely reflect his own experiences both as a public school student, an education major, and a public school teacher.

• Education: BA in Psychology from William Paterson University
• Committee: Julie Rajan, Yana Rodgers, Mary Trigg
• Post-MA Employment/Education: Michelle is employed by Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey as an Associate Director Supervisor with University Career Services
• Thesis/Practicum: Thesis “Positive Body Image Interventions for Adolescent Girls”

• Committee: Charlotte Bunch, Judith Gerson, Mary Hawkesworth
• Post-MA Employment/Education: BA in History from Bennett College, MA in Criminal Justice from George Washington University, and an MA in National Security Affairs from Navel Post Graduate School.
• Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: NATO Scorecard for United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security

• Education: BA from Susquehanna University majoring in Creative Writing with a minor in Women’s & Gender Studies
• Committee: Mary Trigg, Yana Rodgers, Julie Rajan
• Post-MA Employment/Education: Erica is currently employed by Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, as a Program Coordinator in the School of Graduate Studies.
• Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: “Essentializing Western Motherhood & the Negation of Maternal Grief” at Keeping Babies Safe

• Education: Marymount Manhattan College with a degree in Communications Art and Gender Studies.
• Committee: Mary Hawkesworth, Susan Carroll, Julie Rajan
• Thesis/Practicum: Practicum: Center for American Women and Politics “Gender Across Party Lines: How Differences Unite and Complicate the Representation of Women”

• Education: BA in English from Al-Aqsa University
• Committee: Sylvia Chan-Malik, Radhika Balakrishnan, Julie Rajan
• Thesis/Practicum: Practicum “Sexual Violence Against Demfal Syrian Refugees”
• Dissertation: Intima has since returned home to Gaza, where she is facing multiple challenges while seeking out employment through which she can assist females in Gaza realize their human rights.

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• Research Interests: Fat studies, disability studies.
• Education: B.A., Women's and Gender Studies, College of Charleston, 2013.

Bio

Amber is a recent graduate of the College of Charleston with a BA in Women's and Gender Studies. Amber's current research examines the intersection of fat studies and disability studies through a feminist disability studies framework. Her senior thesis project (2012-2013) focused on the meaning of fatness and the figure of the fat lady in the nineteenth century American freak show and the cultural transition to modern spectacles of the fat figure, with a focus on the reality television show The Biggest Loser. Amber is interested in the practical applications of her research in various kinds of institutional policies, and is regularly irritated by news of various policies, from elementary schools to insurance companies, that police the fat body. Although her primary research interests revolve around fatness and disability, Amber also can be found reading romance novels, fan-fiction, and young adult novels in her spare time and dreaming up new research projects that allow her to ship Kirk and Spock as part of her academic career.