Alumni - Graduate Feminist Emphasis
Pedro Acuna
Research Interests: Early twentieth-century Latin America; masculinity, sexuality and eugenic discourses in Chile, Argentina and Uruguay; sports and physical culture in the Southern Cone; performativity, repertoires, representation, and embodiment.
Zahra Ahmed
Political Science, Spring 2010Research Interests: Political psychology, specifically service learning and its implications for citizenship and democracy
Dissertation Title: "Service Learning in Policy and Practice: a Study of Service Learning across Three Universities."
Akhila Ananth
Research Interests: Juvenile dependency law and the foster care system, cultural constructions of family and children, court architecture and aesthetics, feminist ethnography, and critical legal geographies
Jeremiah Axelrod
History, Winter 2001Dissertation Title: "Toward Autopia: Envisioning the Modern Metropolis in Jazz Age Southern California"
Tamara Beauchamp
Research Interests: Modernism, decadence, psychoanalysis, race and gender theory
Mariam Beevi
Comparative Literature, Spring 2006Dissertation Title: "Surfin' Vietnam: Trauma, Historical Memory, and Cultural Politics in Twentieth Century Literature and Film."
Joe Bergeron
Political Science, Summer 2008Research Interests: American politics, gay and lesbian politics, identity politics
Dissertation Title: "Social Movement Promotion of Public Policy During Challenging Times."
Joanna Bouldin
Visual Studies, Spring 2004Dissertation Title: "The Animation and The Actual; Toward a Theory of Animation, Live-Action, and Everyday life."
Kimberly Bowen
Degrees:
English, Spring 2001M.A. English, Spring 2001
Yvonne Braun
Social Science, Spring 2005Dissertation Title: "Feminist Political Ecology in Practice: The Social Impacts of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project."
Lionel Cantu
Social Science, Summer 1999Dissertation Title: "Border Crossing: Mexican Men andthe Sexuality of Migration."
Chuan Chen
Comparative Literature, Summer 2009Research Interests: Transpacific postcoloniality, queer feminist studies, philosophy of Enlightenment, experimental and narrative fiction and cinema
Dissertation Title: "Luminous Screens: Between Figure and Time in the Cinematic Image."
Cindy I-Fen Cheng
History, Spring 2004Dissertation Title: "Contesting Chinese/American Identities in the Age of Cold War Politics."
Valeria Chow
MA English, Spring 1998
Julie Cohen
History, Summer 2009Dissertation Title: "Pedagogies for 'Productive Citizenship': The Cultural Politics of Child Welfare in Early Twentieth-Century Southern California."
Kelly Corwin
Research Interests: 17th Century British Drama and Politics
Margaux Cowden
Comparative Literature, Fall 2009Dissertation Title: "Late Modernism & the Landscape of Perversity:Minor Utopianism 1930-1950."
Marnie Dobson
Social Science, Fall 2005Dissertation Title: "Professionalizing Touch: Gender, Sexuality, the Law and Massage Work."
Lan Phuong Duong
Comparative Literature, Spring 2005Dissertation Title: "Vietnam and the Diaspora: Gender, Nation and the Politics of Collaboration."
Sharareh Frouzesh
PhD in Comparative Literature, 2013Research Interests: Modern Iranian literatures and cultural productions; transnational literatures and feminisms; political and legal theory; postcolonial literatures and theory; psychoanalysis and phenomenology; dialectics of resistance and modernisms.
Karen Gallagher
German, Fall 2007Dissertation Title: "Marie Herzfeld (1855-1940) and European Modernism."
Heather Goldsworthy
Social Ecology, Spring 2010Research Interests: Women and environment, human security, environmental degradation and social change
Dissertation Title: "Compassionate Capitalism: Institutionalization and Legitimacy in Microfinance."
Racquel Gonzales
Research Interests: histories of technology, surveillance studies, body politics and policing, game studies and culture, consumer culture and domesticity
Naomi Greysor
Dissertation Title: "Sentimental Subjects: Politics of Belonging and the Radical Rhetoric of Modern U.S. Social Reform."
Jane Griffin
Comparative Literature, Summer 2009Research Interests: 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
Dissertation Title: "The labor of Literature: Gender and Literary Culture in Chile from Dictatorship to Democracy."
Michelle Grisat
Philosophy, Summer 2001Dissertation Title: "On Feminist Agency, Identity, Subjectivity: A Critique of Judith Butler's Radical Democracy in a Performative Mode."
Tara Hardinge
Sociology, Summer 2009Research Interests: Gender, family, media and sexuality
Dissertation Title: "Benefits to Health in Marriage and Cohabitation: A State Level Analysis"
Tamara Harvey
English, Spring 1998Dissertation Title: "Modesty's Charge: The Body and Feminist Tactics in Early American Women's Discouse."
Carol Hayes
English, Summer 2000Dissertation Title: "Mapping City Comedy: Topographies of London and the Anomalous Woman, 1599-1625."
Emma Heaney
Ph.D. in Comparative LiteratureResearch Interests: Anglophone and French Literary Modernism, Queer Theory, Feminist Studies
Dissertation Title: "The New Woman: Literary Modernism and the Trans Feminine Allegory."
Susan Hecht
History, Spring 2000Dissertation Title: "Technology, Representation and the German Nation, 1900-1929."
Kathryn Henne
Ph.D.: Summer 2011, Criminology, Law and SocietyResearch Interests: anti-doping discourses, deviance, legal anthropology, physical cultural studies
Dissertation Title: "Imagined Playing Fields and Suspect Bodies: The Legalization and Medical History of Anti-Doping Regulation."
Jane Willy Hseu
English, Summer 2007Dissertation Title: "Racialized English(es):On Asian/American and Latino/a Discourses of Language."
Linh Hua
English, Summer 2009Dissertation Title: "Reading Love: Race amd the Political Economy of Affect."
Erin Huang
Comparative Literature, Summer 2012Research Interests: Chinese cinemas and modern Chinese literatures, feminist film theory, sexuality and space, representations of city-body, subjectivity, urban theory, globalization, postmodern geography
Dissertation Title: Capital's Abjects: Chinese Cinemas, Urban Horror, and the Limits of Visibility.
Jason Huber
Research Interests: Contemporary art and media, gender and sexuality, feminist theory, ethics, relationality, affect and subjectivity, queer theory, postcolonial theory, critical race theory, taste and class, exhibitionary practices and reception, phenomenology and embodiment.
Cortney L. Hughes
Anthropology, Summer 2010Dissertation Title: "Building Modern Morocco One Woman at a Time: Development, Islam, and Reproductive Practices."
Angelica Huizar
Spanish, Spring 2003Dissertation Title: "The Performativity of Latin American Poetry"
Kim Icreverzi
Research Interests: Japanese body genre cinema, erotics, affect and the politics of
spectatorship
Wiebke Ipsen
History, Fall 2005Dissertation Title: "Delicate Citizenship - Gender and Nationbuilding in Brazil, 1865-1891."
Lilly Irani
PhD in ICS, Spring 2013Research Interests: Postcolonial studies of design and globalization; New media and labor politics
Alexander Jabbari
Research Interests: Persianate literary historiography of the late 19th and early 20th centuries (Persian and Urdu); nationalism, modernity, sexual aesthetics
Kyle Julien
History, Fall 2000Dissertation 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"
Yuka Kanno
Visual Studies, Spring 2010Research Interests: Feminist film theory, queer studies, queer film criticism, theories of representation, visuality, and embodiment; queer/lesbian visual subjectivity in Japanese visual culture
Dissertation Title: "Queer Female Networks in Japan Visual Culture."
Karen Kendrick
Social Science, Fall 2004Dissertation Title: "Health, Beauty and Femininity: An Institutional Ethnography of Cancer Services for Women."
Jennifer Kihnley
Criminology, Law and Society, Summer 1999
Dissertation Title: "Courting Contradiction: Gender, Law and the Women's Collegiate Basketball."
Laura Knighten
English, Fall 2009Dissertation Title: "Ireland's Citizen-Children and the Politics of Family Dysfunction."
Ben Kruger-Robbins
Patricia Levin
Visual Studies, Spring 2001Dissertation Title: "About Turns: Minimalism to Excess in the Films of Yvonne Rainer."
Jennifer Locke
English, Spring 2010Dissertation Title: "Novel Possibilities: Constructing Women's Futures through Fiction, 1697-1799."
Katherine Mack
Comparative Literature, Spring 2008Research Interests: 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."
Kurt MacMillan
PhD in History, Winter 2013Research Interests: 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
Jennifer Maldonado
MA East Asian Languages and Literatures, Winter 2006
Heather Martel
History, Winter 2001Dissertation Title: "Contact: Christianizing the Soul, Disembodying Science, Americanizing the Flesh, 1498-1627."
Megan McCabe
Research Interests: transnational and transracial adoption, critical theory, and cultural criticism.
Connie McGuire
PhD in AnthropologyDissertation Title: "Transnationalizing Gangs in the Americas: Advocacy, Expertise and Policymaking."
Anne Mocarski
Degrees:
MA German, Winter 1996MA German, Winter 1996
Erin Moran
Research Interests: 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
Chrisy Moutsatsos
Social Science, Fall 2001Dissertation Title: "Transnational Beauty Culture and Local Bodies: An Ethnographic Account of Consumption and Identity in Urban Greece."
Heather Murray
Visual Studies, Winter 2008Dissertation Title: "Monstrous Play in Negative Spaces: The Cultural Production of Biometric Bodies."
Janet Neary
English, Spring 2009Research Interests: 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
Natalie Newton
PhD in Anthropology, Fall 2012Research Interests: Gender and sexuality, Vietnam, Vietnamese diaspora, transnational and post-colonial feminism, butch-femme, post-socialist societies, queer urban studies, queer theory
Stella Oh
English, Spring 2004Dissertation Title: "Life Writing and Nation Formation: Contesting Legal and Visual Authority."
Randy Ontiveros
English, Spring 2006Research Interests: Chicana/Chicano Studies; feminist theory; literary and cultural studies
Dissertation Title: "Culture, Ethnicity, Memory: the Making of the Chicano Movement."
Cynthia Maria Ovando-Knutson
Spanish, Spring 2008Dissertation Title: "In Search of a Narrative of HIstory: Embodied Pain and Transformative Allegories in Four Latin American Novels of Dictatorship."
Seo Young Park
Ph.D.: Anthropology, Summer 2011Dissertation Title: "Pace and Passion in Seoul's Dongdaemun Market, South Korea: Time in the 24-Hour City."
Amy Parsons
English, Spring 2007Dissertation Title: "'And a Hundred Other Shadowy Things': Specters of the Transnational in Nineteenth-Century American Literature."
Justin Perez
Research Interests: queer studies, human and sexuality rights, identity, Latin America
Susan Pinette
French, Fall 1999Dissertation Title: "Alternative Ethnographies: Genre and Cultural Encounter in Early Modern French Texts."
Teresa Pond
Degrees:
MFA Drama, Spring 2003MFA Drama, Spring 2003
Dissertation Title: MFA Thesis Tltle: "A Working Girl's Guide to Bringing Feminist Theater to the Masses."
Vivian Price
Political Science, Summer 2000Dissertation Title: "Hammering It Out: Community Pressure and Affirmative Action in US Highway Constrcution Projects."
Elizabeth Rayfield
Visual Studies, Summer 2004Dissertation Title: "Her Apparent Admiration and the Intensity of her Gaze: Race, Class and Gender and the Stereocopic Viewing Experience."
Carrie Reiling
Research Interests: International relations, NGOs, United Nations, feminist security studies, West Africa
James Renteria
Degrees:
M.A Culture&Theory, Spring 2010M.A Culture&Theory, Spring 2010
Stephanie Reyes-Bell
History, Spring 2001Dissertation Title: "Gendered and Racialized Constructions of Alcoholism in the Postwar Era."
Valentina Ricci
Ph.D. University of California, IrvineResearch Interests: German idealism, Political philosophy, Feminist philosophy, Ethics, Bioethics
Kimberly Richman
Criminology, Law and Society, Spring 2003Dissertation 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
Dissertation Title: "The Shape of a Neighbor(hood)."
Paula Ross
MFA Studio Art
Dissertation Title: "(Not) In Any Order."
Tracy Sachtjen
History, Fall 2009Research Interests: 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
English, Summer 2002Dissertation Title: "Monstrous Eros: A Reconsideration of Seventeenth- Century British Romance."
Lisa Sanchez
Criminology, Law and Society, Spring, 1998Dissertation Title: "Sex, Violence, Citizenship, and Community: An Ethnography and Legal Geography of Commercial Sex in One American City."
Nichole Sanders
History, Summer 2003Dissertation Title: "Gender, Welfare and the 'Mexican Miracle': The Politics of Modernization in Post Revolutionary Mexico, 1937-1958."
Jacqueline Scoones
English, Summer 2000Dissertation Title: "Dwelling Poetically: Environmental Ethics in Contemporary Fiction."
Priya Shah
English, Fall 2008Dissertation Title: "Consuming Empire: Desire in Colonial Britain and India, 1789-1872."
Elisabeth Sherratt
MA Visual Studies, Spring 2000
Jennifer Thompson
Comparative Literature, Spring 2000Dissertation Title: "Realizing Rape."
Donna Tong
English, Spring 2009Research Interests: 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."
Emily Troshynski
Ph.D.: Summer 2011, CRIM, LAW & SOCIETYDissertation Title: "Surveillance Technology and teh Transformation of Criminal Justice: Monitoring Sex Offenders with GPS Technology."
Charlene Tung
Social Ecology, Spring 1999Dissertation Title: "The Social Reproductive Labor of Filipina Transmigration Workers in Southern California: Caring for Those Who Provide Elderly Care."
Pilar Valero-Costa
Spanish, Spring 2002Dissertation Title: "La Mistica Sufi En Maria Zambrano."
Neha Vora
Anthropology, Summer 2008Dissertation Title: "Participatory Exclusion: the Emirati State, Forms of Belonging, and Dubai's Indian Middle Class."
Ingrid Wilkerson
History, Fall 2009Dissertation Title: "Strangers in Good Company: Immigrants in Elizabethan London."
Victoria Wilson
PhD in Political Science Spring 2013Research Interests: Feminist theory, minority politics, race/ethnicity, particularly why race liberation orientated social movements both react to and reinscribe essentialized ideologies of gender
Kassia Wosick-Correa
Sociology, Fall 2007Research Interests: 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
History, Spring 2001Dissertation Title: "Taking it to the Streets: Representations of Ethnicity and Gender in San Francisco's Chinese New Year Festivals, 1953-2001."
Megan Zane
Research Interests: Metaphysics, Philosophy of language, and gender studies
Sandrine Zerbib
Sociology, Winter 2006
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."