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Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Student-Faculty Research

Student and teacher research

The following list includes current and historic, individual student research projects, public presentations from conferences, symposia and exhibitions*, and peer-reviewed publications. For abstracts on each project see Students as Scholars.

Students can get a list of their projects by going to CLIQ in the Gateway.  Under the CLIQ menu, go to Profiles and then My ePortfolio.    If you are an alum and would like a copy of your projects, please submit a research project request form.

*“Supported by:” on Student Conference Presentation records indicates the entity or funding mechanism that supported the student’s participation in the conference, i.e. travel expenses, poster costs, etc.  For on-campus conferences, the supporting entity is usually the academic department sponsoring the event.

**“Supported by:” on Student Research Project records indicates the entity or funding mechanism that supported the student’s research costs, i.e. supplies, materials, equipment, stipends, local or international research travel, etc.


2019

Student NameProjectFaculty/Mentor
Maia BakerThe Spatialization of Identity in Their Eyes Were Watching God
Conference: Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality (ROWGS) Student Research Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Maia BakerThe Spatialization of Identity in Their Eyes Were Watching God
Conference: Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality (ROWGS) Student Research Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Gabriella Maria CorcoranPageant Politics: Miss Venezuela and the Bolivarian Revolution
Conference: Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality (ROWGS) Student Research Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Meaghan Emily McBride#Me Too Means Who? Shining a Light on the Darkness
Conference: Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality (ROWGS) Student Research Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Whitney Alyse PolichAway from the Screen and Back to the Streets: The Impact of FOSTA SESTA Legislation on the Lives of Sex Workers and Tensions within Online Activist Spaces
Conference: Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality (ROWGS) Student Research Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Kayleigh Elizabeth Rhatigan".. .like the sky, constantly changing": Queer Futures and the Fluid Alien Body in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis
Conference: Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality (ROWGS) Student Research Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Emily Paige ScheiberFeminist and Non-Feminist Identity: Different Approaches to Different Relationships?
Conference: Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality (ROWGS) Student Research Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Emma Dietrich SpectorDeliberative Democracy in the #Me Too Era: A Chance to Reconcile?
Conference: Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality (ROWGS) Student Research Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Nadia Gabrielle TivvisReturn to Neveryork: Queer Time, Afrofuturism, and Radical Queer Politics In Delany's Cyclical Cities
Conference: Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality (ROWGS) Student Research Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Jingwen ZhangOld Wine in a New Bottle: An Analysis of the Recent Prevailed Children Sexual Abuse Prevention Education in China
Conference: Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality (ROWGS) Student Research Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department

2016

Student NameProjectFaculty/Mentor
Juliette Elodia-Ann Bastarache"Female Students' Experiences Engaging in Casual Hook-Ups at Dickinson College"
Conference: 2016 Central PA Consortium Annual Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Conference
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium
Kristen Leigh Cunningham"Gay and Bisexual Men Negotiating Sexual Pleasure, Safety, and Society Assumptions"
Conference: 2016 Central PA Consortium Annual Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Conference
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium
Kristen Leigh CunninghamWomen's Romantic and Sexual Relationships: Negotiating Power and Pleasure
Conference: 2016 Research on Women and Gender by Students Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Megan Yost
Leanna Alyxandria DiggsPregnant Pause: Reproduction, Death, and Media Culture
Supported by: R&D Dana Research Assistant
Number of Weeks: 26
Jennifer Musial
Caitlin Marie Doak"Queer Ecology"
Conference: 2016 Central PA Consortium Annual Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Conference
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium
Isabel Valiela
Julie FoongAdjusting to the Second Home: The Transnational Migration of Filipino Women to Singapore
Conference: 2016 Research on Women and Gender by Students Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
J Daniel Schubert
Virginia Kopacki"I Had a Gay Old Time: Lesbian Prostitution, Transgender Pre-History and Queering Lives of the Civil War"
Conference: 2016 Central PA Consortium Annual Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Conference
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium
Elizabeth Marie LaniganSex Education and 'The Good Life': Considering Sex Education as a Tool of Bio-Power
Conference: 2016 Research on Women and Gender by Students Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Kathryn Oliviero
Elizabeth Marie Lanigan"Gaps in the Literature: seeking queer sexuality in adolescent sex education books"
Conference: 2016 Central PA Consortium Annual Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Conference
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium
Elizabeth Marie Lanigan"Who Knows What about Sex?: the stakes and dangers in knowledge production in sex education"
Conference: 2016 Central PA Consortium Annual Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Conference
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium
Danielle Dow Melnick"The Speech Heard Round the World"
Conference: 2016 Central PA Consortium Annual Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Conference
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium
Jiyeong Park"Contraception among Cameroonian Women in Polygamous Marriages"
Conference: 2016 Central PA Consortium Annual Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Conference
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium
Jiyeong ParkContraception among Cameroonian Women in Polygamous Marriages
Conference: 2016 Research on Women and Gender by Students Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Susan Rose
Abigail May Preston"Speech or Sex: The Pornography Debate through a Political Lens"
Conference: 2016 Central PA Consortium Annual Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Conference
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Colleges Consortium, Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Abigail May PrestonSpeech or Sex: The Porn Debate and American Politics
Conference: 2016 Research on Women and Gender by Students Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Kathleen Marchetti
Paul-Anne RobbLife As We See It: Performance of Black Families and Relationships in Black Sitcoms
Conference: 2016 Research on Women and Gender by Students Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Kristiana Elisabeth Roth"Female Students' Experiences Engaging in Casual Hook-Ups at Dickinson College"
Conference: 2016 Central PA Consortium Annual Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Conference
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium
Sara Aubrey TybergEntitlement and Anguish: An Analysis of Masculinity and Misogyny in American School Shootings
Conference: 2016 Research on Women and Gender by Students Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
J Daniel Schubert
Sara Aubrey Tyberg"Entitlement and anguish: an analysis of misogyny and masculinity in American school shootings"
Conference: 2016 Central PA Consortium Annual Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Conference
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium
Katherine Schweighofer
Anna Grace WagmanTransnational Activist Circuits of Precarity and Rescue: Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill, LGBT Asylum and International Human Rights Narratives
Supported by: R&D Dana Research Assistant
Number of Weeks: 13
Kathryn Oliviero
Anna Grace WagmanJustice, Care, and Gender Violence: How Emergency Medical Systems Fail Victims of Sexual Violence
Conference: 2016 Research on Women and Gender by Students Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Karen Weinstein

2015

Student NameProjectFaculty/Mentor
Sena Afi AgawuMother is Gold, Father is Glass: The Affect of Immigration on West African Women's Identities as Mothers
Conference: 2015 Research on Women and Gender by Students Symposium
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium, Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
James Ellison,Maria Bruno
Christopher Joseph BrokusTous les memes: Dynamics of Masculinity in Urban Cameroon
Conference: 2015 Research on Women and Gender by Students Symposium
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium, Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Ann Hill
Sydney Sullivan Millis CrossThe Second Wave of Feminism at Dickinson College
Conference: 2015 Research on Women and Gender by Students Symposium
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium, Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Jeremy Ball
Sarah Helweg DiMuccioThe Precariousness of Manhood and Womanhood in the U.S.
Conference: 2015 Research on Women and Gender by Students Symposium
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium, Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Megan Yost
Laura A Hart"Yours for reforms of all kinds": The Partial Dissolution of Gendered Spheres in Louisa May Alcott's Children's Books
Conference: 2015 Research on Women and Gender by Students Symposium
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium, Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Sarah Kersh,Wendy Moffat
Kathleen Margaret Jarman"If we were all laid prone, stiff, still": The Epistemological and Empathetic Challenges of Illness Narratives
Conference: 2015 Research on Women and Gender by Students Symposium
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium, Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Wendy Moffat
Sarah Rachel KleineThe Societal, Psychological and Medical Marginalization of Menstruating Women Living in South Indian Urban Slum Communities
Conference: 2015 Research on Women and Gender by Students Symposium
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium
Lynn Helding
Jessica Rose LibowitzBlog All About It: Black Girl Nerd's Use of Blogging to Combat Structural Oppression Online
Conference: 2015 Research on Women and Gender by Students Symposium
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium, Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
J Daniel Schubert
Rachel Louise MelnickOnce Upon a Time: The Fiction of a Domestic Violence Campaign
Conference: 2015 Research on Women and Gender by Students Symposium
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium, Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Jennifer Musial

2014

Student NameProjectFaculty/Mentor
Leodor AltidorThe Ins and Outs of Hookup Culture in LGBTQ Identified College Students
Conference: 2014 ROWGS Symposium
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium, Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Megan Yost
Joelle Taylor CicakSermons in Stone: The World and Works of Abastenia St. Leger Eberle
Conference: 2014 ROWGS Symposium
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium, Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Elizabeth Lee
Hannah Lobell GarrettPro-Life Praxis: Emerging Ethical and Religious Ecumenism
Conference: 2014 ROWGS Symposium
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium, Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Theodore Pulcini
Parisa Renee KaliushDisordered Eating in Female Collegiate Athletes: Investigating the Relationships among Coaching and Parenting Styles, Psychological Needs, and Self-Determined Motivation
Conference: 2014 ROWGS Symposium
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium
Suman Ambwani
Holly Clare KellySchooled by the Maid in 'The School For Lover's': A Musical Analysis of Mozart's Soubrettes
Conference: 2014 ROWGS Symposium
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium, Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Amy Wlodarski
Hope Elizabeth KildeaRethinking Sexual Exploitation: Sex Trafficking and Prostitution Law in Pennsylavania
Conference: 2014 ROWGS Symposium
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium, Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Amy Farrell
Rachel Lauren KruchtenWomen at Dickinson College - Then and Now.
Conference: Mellon Digital Humanities Workshop
Supported by: Mellon Digital Humanities Grant
Sara Anne MossRethinking Recovery: Posttraumatic Growth Through Eating Disorder Recovery
Conference: 2014 ROWGS Symposium
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium, Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Suman Ambwani
Melissa Beth RifkinStriking a Rock: An Examination of the Federation of South African Women and Their Role in the Anti-Apartheid Movement
Conference: 2014 ROWGS Symposium
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium, Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Jeremy Ball
Emma Jeanne RodwinJane in School: Questioning the Canon in Revisions of Jane Eyre
Conference: 2014 ROWGS Symposium
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium
Siobhan Phillips
Chalise SaundersDeconstructing Identity and Eating Disorders among Women of Color in Fiction
Conference: 2014 CPC WOMEN'S STUDIES CONFERENCE "FOOD POLITICS AND GENDER"
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium
Michele St. JulienPerinatal Femicide: Examining Media Coverage of Violence Against Pregnant Women
Conference: Eastern Sociological Society Conference
Supported by: R&D Kenderdine Travel Grant
Jennifer Musial
Michele St. JulienPregnant Pause: Reproduction, Death, and Media Culture
Supported by: R&D Dana Research Assistant
Number of Weeks: 13
Jennifer Musial

2013

Student NameProjectFaculty/Mentor
Alexandra Uka Amaka AgiligaReclaiming Sexuality and Asserting Agency: Black Women in Sadomasochism
Conference: 2013 ROWGS Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Megan Yost
Mary Ann EggersThe Success(?)ful Black Man: Depictions of Black Masculinity online through the humor of the 'Successful Black Man' Internet meme
Conference: 2013 ROWGS Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Helene Lee
Fadwa Sarah FerradjiDeconstructing the Alcoholic Woman - A cultural interpretation of women in Alcoholics Anonymous
Conference: 2013 ROWGS Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Ann Hill
Jordan Emily HaferbierWomen as Keepers of Knowledge and History in El Calaboz
Conference: 2013 ROWGS Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Susan Rose
Sarah Ledoux HolmesMaternal and Childhood Health and Nutrition in the Southwest Village of Kibatata, Tanzania
Conference: 2013 ROWGS Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Karen Weinstein
Helen Louise HopperFirst we look in mirrors. Later we use each other: Uses of the Mirror in the Queer Archive in E.M. Forster's 'Maurice' and Alison Bechdel's 'Fun Home'
Conference: 2013 ROWGS Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
David Ball
Taylor Black KobranFight like a Girl
Conference: 2013 Research on Women and Gender by Students Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
David Ball
Alexis Ellyn KuzmaDeconstructing Motherhood with the Bounds of Beauty: Women's Agency in the Hot Mom Trend
Conference: 2013 Research on Women and Gender by Students Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Sharon O'Brien
Sara Michelle RaabThe Perpetuation and Subversion of Gender- Power Dynamics: An Interview Study in Central Pennsylvania
Conference: 2013 ROWGS Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Megan Yost
Jamie Kathleen SweeneyRebels in Constant Agitation: Subversive Women and History in Marco Bellocchio's 'Vincere' and Susanna Nicchiarelli's 'Cosmonauta' (2009)
Conference: 2013 ROWGS Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Nicoletta Marini Maio

2012

Student NameProjectFaculty/Mentor
Holly Madine Bowers"'A reporter in petticoats?': Establishing the Right to Write in the First World War"
Conference: 2012 Research on Women and Gender By Students Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Wendy Moffat
Elizabeth Evelyn Campbell"Finding Austen: The Covert Gender Politics in Emma's Marriage Plots"
Conference: 2012 Research on Women and Gender by Students Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Wendy Moffat
Hayley Lang Cohen"From Rosie the Riveter to Rosie the Reverend"
Conference: 2012 Research on Women and Gender By Students Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Mara Donaldson
Caitlin Reilly Flanagan"A Transnational Feminist Perspective on Meru Women's Use of Female Excision during British Colonial Rule"
Conference: 2012 Research on Women and Gender by Students Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Jeremy Ball
Eric Sohan Joseph"Unveiling Queer Jamaican Folk Culture Through the Body of the Dancehall Badman"
Conference: 2012 Research on Women and Gender By Students Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Alexandra Min-Ying North"Mothers and the Motherland: Demographics and Family Policy in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia"
Conference: 2012 Research on Women and Gender By Students Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Ana Bess Rader"Who's got the power?: Analyzing women's agency & governmental agendas through a case study of Cuba, the United States, the Ladies in White and the Federation of Cuban Women"
Conference: 2012 Research on Women and Gender By Students Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Erik Love,Amy Farrell
Joanna Marie Sprout(Re)Construction of Black Womanhood in the Literature of the Harlem Renaissance: Passing and Their Eyes Were Watching God
Conference: 2012 Research on Women and Gender By Students Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Wendy Moffat
Lizet V Vera"Empowered Lives: The Rise of Activism in Juarez, Mexico"
Conference: 2012 Research on Women and Gender By Students Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Amy Farrell

2011

Student NameProjectFaculty/Mentor
Noorjahan AkbarThe Invisible Half
Conference: 2011 Research on Women and Gender By Students Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Rachel Faith Chesley"Tainted by the Blood of the Oppressor": Womanism, Black Power, and the Treatment of the Mulatto in Alice Walker's The Color Purple
Conference: 2011 Research on Women and Gender By Students Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Carol Johnston
Alyssa Marie ColtrainDangerous Games: Sexual Power in the Trobairitz' Tensos
Conference: 2011 Research on Women and Gender By Students Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Noelle A Cutler"Become as Little Children": A Study of the Subversion of the Cult of Domesticity in Two Sentimental Texts
Conference: 2011 Research on Women and Gender By Students Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
David Ball
Alyssa Monika MinnickSelf-Perceptions and Normative Discontent Among College Women
Conference: 2011 Research on Women and Gender by Students Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Suman Ambwani
Alexandra Min-Ying NorthLGBT and Women Students Negotiate Sexual Violence on Residential College Campuses
Supported by: R&D Dana Research Assistant
Number of Weeks: 13
Stephanie Gilmore
Alexandra Min-Ying NorthInternet Communities and Real Life: an Analysis of the Community Dynamics and Offline Impact of Bulletin Boards for Teen Girls
Conference: 2011 Research on Women and Gender By Students Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Ashley Kerri PeelEchoes of Herstory: Voices of Women of Color at Dickinson Color
Conference: 2011 Research on Women and Gender By Students Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Helene Lee,Amy Steinbugler
Kelsey Lynne PowerConsent Attitudes and Behaviors in College Aged Women
Conference: 2011 Research on Women and Gender By Students Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Megan Yost

2010

Student NameProjectFaculty/Mentor
Chelsea Elizabeth AllenGroundswell: Grassroots Feminist Activism in Postwar America
Supported by: R&D Dana Research Assistant
Number of Weeks: 13
Stephanie Gilmore
Nina Ea AntonsenSex Trafficking of Women in the United States
Conference: 2010 Research on Women and Gender By Students Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Jennifer Frances ChmielewskiLesbian Women's Experiences of Body Image
Conference: 2010 Research on Women and Gender By Students Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Megan Yost
Jennifer Frances ChmielewskiLGBT Campus Climate Focus Groups
Supported by: R&D Dana Research Assistant
Number of Weeks: 13
Stephanie Gilmore
Anna LovettFound in Translation: Dr. Julia Morgan and the Adaptation of Protestant Missions in China
Conference: 2010 Research on Women and Gender By Students Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Kim Rogers,David Strand
Jennah Asalmah MorganDance of the Feminine: Insights into the Development of Anwar
Conference: 2010 Research on Women and Gender By Students Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Sarah Skaggs
Maria Soledad OrozcoThe Beginning of A New Era
Conference: 2010 Research on Women and Gender By Students Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Amy Farrell
Jessie Paton Strasbaugh'Vaguely Love': Beating Around the Bush with Elizabeth Bishop's Restrained Erotic Poetics
Conference: 2010 Research on Women and Gender By Students Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Wendy Moffat
Lizet V VeraThe Development of Sexual Violence Awareness at Dickinson College
Conference: The Development of Sexual Violence Awareness at Dickinson College
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Amy Farrell
Kristen Louise Stengel WalkerWomen's Empowerment through Social Movements in Latin America
Conference: 2010 Research on Women and Gender by Students Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Susan Rose

2009

Student NameProjectFaculty/Mentor
Alison Paige BrantHush, Hush surrounding what makes us go Oh, Oh
Conference: ROWS - Research on Women by Students
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Jennifer Frances ChmielewskiI kissed a girl and I didn't like it...But the boys did
Conference: ROWS - Research on Women by Students
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Glenda GarciaCommon Perspectives in Different Lands: A Comparative Study of Rural Women Farmers in Venezuela and the United States
Conference: ROWS - Research on Women by Students
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Amanda Ruth Lagji"Willing Liberates": Nietzschean Heroism in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions
Conference: ROWS - Research on Women by Students
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Sharon Stockton,Thomas Nadelhoffer
Amanda Ruth LagjiWilling Liberates: Nietzschean Heroism in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions.
Conference: Research on Women by Students (ROWS) Symposium,
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Sharon Stockton,Thomas Nadelhoffer
Shamus Hunter McCartyManHunt.net: Web Networking and the Gay Community.
Conference: Research on Women by Students (ROWS) Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Caroline E Radesky"Man's Domain": Shifting Notions of White Middle-Class Masculinity, Coeducation, and Gender Performance within Academia, 1870-1910
Conference: ROWS - Research on Women by Students
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Shannon Elizabeth SullivanImagined Communities and Embodied Experience: The Creation of a Feminist? Nationalist Identity in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Conference: ROWS - Research on Women by Students
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department

2008

Student NameProjectFaculty/Mentor
Sarah Caitlin Conyngham"Las Madres de Plaza de Mayo": A Study in Third Space Extra-Political Activism
Conference: ROWS - Research on Women by Students
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Catherine Martina Creme-HenryFrom Silence to Pink: Deconstructing the Popular Discourse of Breast Cancer
Conference: ROWS - Research on Women by Students
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Zelma Ivelisse Ortiz"Reggaeton and Latinidad: How Reggaeton Articulates U.S. Pan-latino Nationhood onto Latina's Bodies"
Conference: 2008 Research on Women and Gender by Students Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Caroline E Radesky"Our Girls are Upright, Industrious and Influential Women": Notions of Gender, Labor and Race within the Carlisle Indian Industrial School
Conference: 2008 Research on Women and Gender by Students Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Karrie Anne Walker"A New Model of Care for Pregnant Americans"
Conference: 2008 Research on Women and Gender by Students Symposium
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department

2007

Student NameProjectFaculty/Mentor
Calley Worth ConnorsSurvival, Exploitation and Sex: What it means to be a sex worker in Sosua, The Dominican Republic. Life course patterns found among Dominican and Haitian Sex Workers
Conference: ROWS - Research on Women by Students
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Catherine Martina Creme-HenryThe Politics of Pink: The Real and Imaginary Worlds of Breast Cancer
Conference: ROWS - Research on Women by Students
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Katlin Elizabeth Burwell HarkerForever Cursed: The Portrayal of Females in Mongo Beti's 'The Poor Christ of Bomba' and Ferdinand Oyono's 'Houseboy' in Relation to Eve
Conference: ROWS - Research on Women by Students
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Ashley Claire HaywoodGirl-on-Girl: Perpetuating Sexual Subordination or Breaking Boundaries
Conference: ROWS - Research on Women by Students
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Alicia Anne LeBlancNi Putes Ni Soumises: The Capacity to Ameliorate the Lives of Young Women in the French Banlieues
Conference: ROWS - Research on Women by Students
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Katherine Nicolayev MosherMuslim Women in the Netherlands and the United States: Virginity and Identity Formation
Conference: ROWS - Research on Women by Students
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Elizabeth A MountenayUnstated Indignities Burned Deeply into the Son's Mind: Masculine Anxiety and Feminine Space in World War II Novels, 1945-51
Conference: ROWS - Research on Women by Students
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Karen Marie PowroznikReconstructing Men, Saving Society: An Examination of the Diagnostic and Prognostic Frames of the Boy Scouts and the Promise Keepers
Conference: ROWS - Research on Women by Students
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Brandy Jo SpielmanA New Chicana Story: Rape as a Metaphor of Power in the Poetry of Carmen Tafolla
Conference: ROWS - Research on Women by Students
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Gabriela UassoufWomen and the Bolivarian Revolution: Progress and Setbacks in the Struggle of Gender Equality.
Conference: CPC Women's Studies Conference
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium
Susan Rose
Julia West McGinleyUnderstanding the Impact of Sexual Abuse on Sexual Minority Women
Conference: ROWS - Research on Women by Students
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department

2002

Student NameProjectFaculty/Mentor
Heather Simoni GlasbyThe Concept of Chivalry
Conference: The 9th Annual Research on Women by Students Symposium (ROWS)
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Beverley Eddy,Stephen Weinberger
Sophia Nicole HarrisRebelling Against "The Man'': The Transgressive Feminine Body in Cindy Sherman's "Untitled Film Stills" and Susanna Kaysen's "Girl Interrupted"
Conference: The 9th Annual Research on Women by Students Symposium (ROWS)
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Sharon Stockton
Hannah Elizabeth HuberNo Blame: A Mother/Daughter Story of Teenage Pregnancy and Adoption
Conference: The 9th Annual Research on Women by Students Symposium (ROWS)
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Sharon O'Brien
Melissa Jean Orren-Cordoba"Mexican Feminism: A Movemebnt of Solidarity, Activism and Democracy
Conference: The 9th Annual Research on Women by Students Symposium (ROWS)
Supported by: Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Marcelo Borges

2001

Student NameProjectFaculty/Mentor
Katherine Ann AmateAugust Fells Savage: Molding More Than an Image
Conference: CPC Women's Studies Conference, Session on Color, Sex, and Poetry: Reexamining the Role of Women Artists and Writers of the Harlem Renaissance.
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Conference
Anne Montgomery BrubakerMetaphorically Speaking: The Dilemma of Mulatto Identity in Nella Larsen's Quicksand and Passing
Conference: CPC Women's Studies Conference, Session on Color, Sex, and Poetry: Reexamining the Role of Women Artists and Writers of the Harlem Renaissance.
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium
Nichole Leigh CalhounDivided Sisterhood
Conference: CPC Women's Studies Conference, Session on Feminist Approaches to Popular Culture.
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium
Kimberly Michelle CorteseWomen on the Edge of Language
Conference: CPC Women's Studies Conference, Session on Bodies, Boundaries & Narratives
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium
Audrey Rose EisenbergPhillippa Schuyler: An Artist's Search for Identity.
Conference: CPC Women's Studies Conference, Session on Color, Sex, and Poetry: Reexamining the Role of Women Artists and Writers of the Harlem Renaissance.
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium
Amanda Elizabeth EvelerWomen on the Edge of Language
Conference: CPC Women's Studies Conference, Session on Bodies, Boundaries & Narratives
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium
Amanda Elizabeth EvelerLost in Love: Subjectivity, Control and Transcendence Through Passion in Jeanette Winterson's Written on the Body
Conference: Annual CPC Women's Studies Conference
Supported by: R&D Student Initiative Fund (SIF)
Sharon Stockton
Colleen Elizabeth Heller-SteinMale-Centered or Misogynist: Exploring the Influence of Patriarchy on the Harlem Renaissance
Conference: CPC Women's Studies Conference, Session on Color, Sex, and Poetry: Reexamining the Role of Women Artists and Writers of the Harlem Renaissance.
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium
Sara Nichole HooverRetracing the Tracks: Authorial Expression and Hurston's Projection of Self in Dust Tracks on a Road.
Conference: CPC Women's Studies Conference, Session on Color, Sex, and Poetry: Reexamining the Role of Women Artists and Writers of the Harlem Renaissance.
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium, Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Department
Katherine L RembertThe Sopranos
Conference: CPC Women's Studies Conference, Session on Feminist Approaches to Popular Culture.
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium
Rachel Emig RuchFeminism in the Music of the Dixie Chicks.
Conference: CPC Women's Studies Conference, Session on Feminist Approaches to Popular Culture.
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium
Stephanie Ann SeegerMifepristone: the next step toward abortion freedom
Conference: CPC Women's Studies Conference
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium
Kimberly Tyler UrbanWomen on the Edge of Language
Conference: CPC Women's Studies Conference, Session on Bodies, Boundaries & Narratives
Supported by: Central Pennsylvania Consortium