Five College Women’s Studies Research Center Alumnae/i Associates 1991-2011 September 16, 2011
Janet Aalfs 1995-1996 Valley Women’s Martial Arts, Inc., Easthampton, MA Poetry and Martial Arts KIAI: A WOMAN SHOUTS —Poetry, Martial Arts, and Self Defense
Heather Abel 2005-2006 Novelist, Northampton, MA The Limits of Optimism: Gender Relations at Alternative Newspapers
Tina Achcar-Naccache 1997-1998 Beirut, Lebanon Human Rights The Effects of Confinement on Domestic Workers
Kimberly Adams 1998-1999 Philadelphia, PA English Anna Jameson, the Grimké Sisters, and Anglo-American Feminist Contacts
Marjorie Agosin 1991-1992 Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA Spanish and Literature Translation of Some of Emily Dickinson's Letters into Spanish
Nada Ali 2009-2010 Independent Researcher, New York, NY The Discourses and Practices of the Sudanese Opposition in Exile (1989-2000): A Gender Perspective
Hanife Aliefendioglu 2006-2007 Eastern Mediterranean University, Gazimagusa, Cyprus Communication and Media Studies Gender and Ethnicity in the Discourse of the Northern Cyprus Media
Henrice Altink 2007-2008 University of York History The Struggle to Define Jamaican Womanhood: 1865-1938
Nora Amin 2004-2005 Freie University, Berlin, Germany Theatre Topics in Performance
Alia Arasoughly 2002-2003 MIFTAH, Ramallah, Palestine Sociology Palestinian and Lebanese Women Filmmakers and War
Marie Ashe 2006-2007 Suffolk University, Boston, MA Law Toward a Gendered Religious Pluralism
Kiran Asher 2005-2006 Clark University, Worcester, MA International Development and Women’s Studies Beyond Victims and Guardian Angels: Third World Women, Gender and the Environment
Mary King Austin 1999-2000 Mt. Washington, MA English/Theatre Elaine Goodale Eastman: A Biography
Yamila Azize-Vargas 1996-1997 University of Puerto Rico, Cayey, Puerto Rico Public Health and Women's Studies Abortion in Puerto Rico and Chile: Extreme Legalities, Close Realities
Ruth Backes 1993-1994 Amherst, MA Biography Without Fear or Favor: A Biography of Frances Perkins
Carol Bailey 2003-2004 University of the West Indies English Word Warriors: Female Resistance via Electronic Technology
Olena Bakhareva 2000-2001 Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine English & Linguistics Discursive Strategies of Performing Femininity in American and Ukrainian Cultures
Susan Bandy 2007-2008 Institute of Coaching and Sports Education Sports Studies Body Language in American Women’s Literature of the Late 19th Century
Isabelle Barker 2003-2004 Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Political Science Theorizing Citizenship in an Era of Privatization
Diane Bell 1993-1994 The George Washington University, Washington, DC Anthropology Dreaming Ourselves Anew: Indigenous Traditions, Gendered Spiritualities, and New Age Religions
Leslie Bender 1996-1997 Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY Law and Women's Studies Legal Challenges to Social Injustice: How Women Can Use Tort Law to Continue Feminist Struggle
Natalie Bennett 1998-1999 Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY Sociology Narratives of Success: Attributes of Race-Ethnicity, Gender and Work among Afro-Caribbean Immigrant Women
Christine Benvenuto 2001-2002 Amherst, MA Freelance Writer Shiksa: The Gentile Woman in the Jewish World
Danielle Bessett 2004-2005 New York University, New York, NY Sociology Defining the “Normal Pregnancy:” Knowledge and Experience in Stratified Reproduction
Gurminder Bhambra 2005-2006 University of Sussex, Lewes, East Sussex, UK Sociology Dangerous Particularisms: Challenging Social Theory in the Emerging World
Lynda Birke 1994-1995 Llangollen Clwyd, U.K. Biological Science The Naming of the Shrew: Feminism, Animals and Nature
Karen J. Blair 1993-1994 Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA History Women and Arts Philanthropy in the United States
Benita Blessing 2010-2011 University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, MA DEFA Film Library Women and Science in East German Children’s and Youth Films: Feminine Feminists
Tracey Jean Boisseau 1993-1994 University of Akron, Canton, OH History The Convergence of Colonialism and Feminism: An American Woman's Travels to Africa and Back, 1892-1936
Liana Borghi 1995-1996 Universita de Firenze, Firenze, Italy Literature Liminaliens and Others: Figurations of Subjectivity in Women's Utopian and Science Fictions
Jeanne Braham 1992-1993 Sunderland MA American Literature Crucial Conversations: Studies in Contemporary Women's Literary Autobiography Mary Bray 1991-1992 Education Against the Tide: A Study of Women Activists
Alice Brown-Collins 1991-1992 Holliston, MA Black Studies Let Me Tell You Who I Am: An Exploration of Psychological Themes and Research on African- American Women
Japonica Brown-Saracino 2010-2011 Boston University, Boston, MA Sociology Pride of Place: The Origins and Implications of Queer Women’s Migration to Four U.S. Towns
Susan Buchholz 2001-2002 Lee, MA Freelance Writer/Actor Discovering Emily Warren Roebling and the Role of Women in Engineering in the Late Nineteenth Century
Ruth Weiss Busch 1994-1995 University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Law The Law and Domestic Violence in New Zealand
Deidre Butler 2005-2006 Union College, Schenectady, NY Sociology Othermothering in Motion: Parenting Styles of African American Stepmothers
CADRE – Companeras Arising to Develop Researchers Everywhere 2002-2003 Holyoke and Northampton, MA Girls, Inc., TRP/New Visions, Tapestry Health Systems Doing Our Own Research: Mother and Daughter Dialogues on Dating Then and Now
Elizabeth Cahn 2007-2008 University of Massachusetts Amherst Regional Planning “WSPA While You Work:” The Women’s School of Planning and Architecture, 1975-1981
Karen M. Cardozo 2005-2006 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA English Trauma's Palimpsests: Contemporary US American Narrative Cycles
Jacqueline Castledine 2005-2006 Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ History Gendering the Cold War: Race, Class and Women's Peace Politics, 1945-1980
Shuma Chakravarty 1997-1998 Dorchester, MA Ministry & American Literature Ethics of Identity—Maintaining a Balance Between Individual Accomplishment and Societal Mores
Dorothy Chansky 2006-2007 Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX Theatre Kitchen Sink Realisms: Drama, Dining and Domestic Labor in Twentieth-Century American Theatre
Janet Chawla 2000-2001 MATRIKA, New Delhi, India Health Education Building Bridges Between Ethno-medicine and Bio-medicine in India
Meredith Cherland 2009-2010 University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Education Harry Potter and the Discourses of Gender: Teaching Critical Thinking
Manjula Cherkil 2007-2008 Indian Institute of Management Bangalore Management Disadvantaged Women Workers in the Unorganized Sector in Bangalore, India: A Socio-Economic Study
Hyoung Cho 1996-1997 Ewha Woman’s University, Seoul, Korea Sociology Women's Power and Sex/Gender Politics in Domestic and Public Spheres (with Special Reference to Korea) Pat Chuchryk 1992-1993 University of Letheridge, Letheridge, Canada Sociology Democratization, Social Change and Women's Movements in Chile
Lindsey Churchill 2010-2011 Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL History Imagining the Tupamaros: Resistance and Gender in Uruguayan and U.S. Revolutionary Movements, 1960s-1980
Alev Cinar 2001-2002 Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey Political Science Forging Images of Women, Building a Nation: From Islam to Secularism in Turkey
Susan Clarke 1996-1997 Quinnipiac College, Hamden, CT Education Mid-life Women High School Teachers: Models of Transition for Adolescent Students
Mary Ellen Cohane 2009-2010 Massachusetts College of the Liberal Arts, North Adams, MA English/Communications Eleanor Roosevelt, Jane Addams and the World Economic Conference of 1933
Carol Cohn 1997-1998 Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME Women's Studies & Sociology American National Security Thinking After the Cold War: Language, Gender and Institutional Culture
Nancy Coiner 1993-1994 Amherst, MA Comparative Literature Laboring in the Field of the Self: Allegory and Autobiography in the Late Middle Ages
Lynn Comella 2002-2003 University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA Communications Selling Pleasure: Sex, Gender and the Good Vibrations Model of Sexual Retail
Meghan Cope 2001-2002 State University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY Geography Flexible Welfare: Local Social Service Organizations and the Regulation of Poor Women’s Lives
Lillian Corti 2000-2001 University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK English & Women’s Studies Interracial Medeas: 20th Century Treatments of an Ancient Myth
Heidi Creamer 1997-1998 Hadley, MA English & Women's Studies Feminist Boards of Directors: Strategies for Achieving Multicultural Leadership for Social Change
Elizabeth Currans 2005-2006 University of California Santa Barbara , Santa Barbara, CA Women’s Studies Imagining Women: Community, Belief and Whiteness in Gendered Public Protest
Anita Dahlberg 1999-2000 Stockholm University, Sweden Law/Social Work Law as Mirror and Creator of Gender: Equal Opportunities in Labour Life
Arlene Dallalfar 1994-1995 Lesley College, Cambridge, MA Sociology Gender and Entrepreneurship: Iranian Women in California
Coralynn Davis 2005-2006 Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA Women and Gender Studies "The Story Went into the Forest, the Thoughts into One's Own Mind:" Self, Society and the Sacred in Maithil Women's Narrative Practices
Simone Davis 2003-2004 Long Island University, Brookville, NY English A Scurrilous, Vicious and Libelous Book
Lynda Day 2009-2010 Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY Africana Studies Gender, Marginality and Power: The Women Chiefs of Sierra Leone, 1885-2005
Jessica Delgado 2008-2009 University of California, Berkele, CA History Sacred Practice, Intimate Power: Laywomen and the Church in Colonial Mexico
Odine de Guzman 2003-2004 University of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines English Overseas Filipina Labor Migrants and the Regulation of Sexuality
Joan DelPlato 2001-2002 Simon’s Rock College, Great Barrington, MA Art History Jacob Lawrence’s “Harriet Tubman” Series c. 1939: Representing an African-American Heroine
Neloufer de Mel 2006-2007 University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka English Militarism, Culture and the Media: Issues of Representation, Gender, Performance and Security
Carole DeSanti 1998-1999 Penguin Putnam, New York, NY Fiction A Novel: The Logic of Passion
Giovanna Di Chiro 2009-2010 Pioneer Valley Environmental Justice Coalition, Holyoke, MA Raíces Latina en Movimiento: Women’s Urban Environmental Activism in Latino New England
Irene Dölling 1995-1996 Universitat Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany Sociology Socio-Cultural Changes in the Daily Lives of Women in Eastern Germany Delfina Dolza 1995-1996 Torino, Italy History Women and Scientific Culture in Northern Italy in the Early Nineteenth Century
Darcy Donahue 2008-2009 Miami University, Miami, OH Spanish and Portuguese Adventures in Iberia: American Women Travelers in Spain, 1875-1900
Nancy Dorsch-Smith 1995-1996 East Rock Magnet School, New Haven, CT Education The Rise of Segregated Schooling in Southern New England: The Use of Ethnicity, Race, and Gender in the Reproduction of Class in a Connecticut City
Laura Doyle 1991-1992 University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA English Race, Sex and Somalogics in Modern Fiction
Sarah Doyle 2004-2005 Independent Scholar, Amherst, MA History Body Measurement, Physical Education and Posture at New England Colleges, 1861-1940
Amy Dryansky 2003-2004 Conway, MA Freelance Writer The Dark Woods: Motherhood, Poetry and the Struggle to Speak
Kristin Du Mez 2003-2004 University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN History Reimagining Morality: Protestant Women and the Reshaping of Sexuality and Theology, 1900-1935
Lillian Dunning 2008-2009 University of California, San Diego, CA English From Liminal to Limelight: Women Writers of Color and the Contemporary British Novel
Michelle Dupuis 2000-2001 Springfield Science Museum, Springfield, MA Science Education Scientists of the Future: The History and Future of Women in Science
Paulla Ebron 1994-1995 Stanford University, Stanford, CA Anthropology Re-inscribing and Re-envisioning African-American Culture
Karin Ekström 2010-2011 University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden Global Studies An Anthropological Study of Gender and Cultural Change in Contemporary Urban Spain
Megan Elias 2010-2011 Queensborough Community College, Bayside, NY History Taste of the Nation: American Cookbooks and Culture, 1865-2000
Tia Esposíto 1995-1996 Computer Science Women and the Net: An Investigation of the Factors which Contribute to the Use of On-line Information Networks by Women
Margaret S. Ewing 1997-1998 Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK Zoology Sustaining Women in Science: Ann Haven Morgan at Mount Holyoke College
Katalin Fabian 2001-2002 Lafayette College, Easton, PA Political Science Politics across the Public-Private Divide: Successes and Failures in Democratizing East and Central Europe
Babette Faehmel 2008-2009 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA History Beyond the Bell Jar: College Women, Sexuality and Identity, 1940-1965
Sima Fahid 1998-1999 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA History The Intersection of Gender, Ethnicity and Sexuality: The Rise of the State and the Question of "Alterity" in Iran
Rachel Joffe Falmagne 1994-1995 Clark University, Worcester, MA Psychology Toward a Feminist Theory of Inference
Jyl Lynn Felman 1994-1995 Brandeis University, Waltham, MA Autobiography and Fiction Private Rituals: A Daughter's Journey Through the Mother's Sorrow
Cheryl Fish 2003-2004 City University of New York, New York, NY English Environmental Justice Made Manifest: Ruth L. Ozeki’s My Year of Meats and Ideologies of Race, Gender and Health in Literary Contexts
Joyce Follet 1998-1999 Smith College, Northampton, MA History Reforming the State: Gender and Community in the Midwest, 1835-1921
Lisa Fontes 2006-2007 Union Institute & University Social Work Young Teen Girls and Older Men: Problems & Solutions in the Multicultural United States
Susan Gardner 1993-1994 University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC Literature Toward a Sociology of Nigerian Women Writers Katharina Gerstenberger 1996-1997 University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH Germanic Languages and Literature "...but I wanted to write an honest book..." Autobiographies by German-Speaking Women
Stephanie Gilmore 2004-2005 Ohio State University, Columbus, OH Women’s History Rethinking the Liberal/Radical Divide: The National Organization for Women in Memphis, Columbus and San Francisco
Leah B. Glasser 1991-1992 Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA English "We're Women Folks": Mary Wilkins Freeman's Vision of Sexuality, Spinsterhood and Autonomy in Nineteenth Century New England
Ruth Glynn 2009-2010 University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom Italian Women, Terror and Trauma in Italian Culture
Fatma Gök 1992-1993 Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey Education Social and Ideological Functions of Girls' Institutes in the Early Period of the Turkish Republic
Magdalena Gómez 1998-1999 Enchanted Circle Theatre, Holyoke, MA Education/Theater You Don't Look It: The Impact of Media Stereotypes on "White Looking" Latinas
Lakshmi Goparaju 1997-1998 Fayettville, NC Anthropology Gender and Sexuality in India: Implications for AIDS Spread Naomi Graetz 1992-1993 Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Omer, Israel English The Battered Woman in the Jewish Tradition: Metaphor and Halacha
Gail B. Griffin 1993-1994 Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI Literature Marginalia: Essays in Literature and Culture
Alicia Grullon 2005-2006 SUNY New Paltz , New Paltz, NY Fine Arts Sacrifices: Women and Racism
Encarnación Gutiérrez -Rodriguez 2007-2008 University of Manchester Transcultural Studies Care and Domestic Workers’ Rights and Citizenship – On Precariousness, Transnational Migration and Gender
Fatemeh Haghighatjoo 2008-2009 University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT Women’s Studies State Feminism in Iran
Mary Anna Ham 2006-2007 University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA Family Therapy Program The Development of Self-Empathy in Multiracial Women
Jennifer Hamilton 2010-2011 Hampshire College, Amherst, MA Legal Studies and Anthropology Frozen Moments: Ethics, Genetics and the Gendering of Biological Materials
Christina Hanhardt 2005-2006 New York University, New York, NY American Studies "Safe Space": Sexual Minorities, Uneven Urban Development, and the Politics of Violence
Jayme Hannay 2000-2001 Sisters of Providence Health System, Springfield, MA Program Development Book Groups Then and Now: Support for Women at Risk
Judith C. Harper 1996-1997 Franklin County Technical School, Turners Falls, MA Family Therapy & Human Development The Impact of Welfare Reform on Teen Parents in Rural Communities
Nadra Hashim 2000-2001 University of Virginia Government & Foreign Affairs The Viability of Micro-Finance Projects for Refugee Women
Lynn Hatch 2007-2008 University of Massachusetts Amherst Economics Another Cost of Women’s Caring: Teaching in the Child-care Industry
Alison Hayford 2001-2002 University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Sociology/Geography Pedagogy, Community, Authorit y and Audience: Women’s Studies as Social Practice
Anissa Helie 2004-2005 Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML), London, UK History European Women Teachers in Colonial Algeria: Agents of Emancipation or Wheels of Colonial Power? 1874-1949
Clare Hemmings 1994-1995 London, U.K. Literature and Women's Studies Sameness and Difference: Bisexuality and Contemporary Feminist Theory
Laura Hendrickson 1997-1998 Westport CT Art History Gender, Music, and the Decorative in Nineteenth-Century British Avant-Gardism: Woman as Modernist Artist and "Sign"
Anne Hendrixson 2003-2004 The Committee on Women, Population and the Environment, Baltimore, MD Activist Beyond Hype: Toward Justice for Young People
Debra Herman 1999-2000 Palo Alto, CA History Education for a Woman’s Life: The Vassar Experiment, 1861-1969
Sharlene Hesse-Biber 1995-1996 Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA Sociology Body Dissatisfaction and Dieting Among White and African-American Pre-teens and Adolescents
Jennifer Heuer 1998-1999 Miami University, Oxford, OH History Families, Foreigners and Citizens: Contradictions of National Citizenship in France, 1789-1830
Nitza M. Hidalgo 1994-1995 Westfield State College, Westfield, MA Education All of David's Mothers: The Story of a Puerto Rican Family
Johanna Hiitola 2010-2011 University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland Social Research Families in the Margins and the Gendered Construction of Parenthood
Hilary Hinds 1999-2000 College of Higher Education, U.K. English Imaging Feminism: The Cultural Politics of Representing Gender in the British Press (with Jackie Stacey)
Ellie Hisama 1994-1995 Brooklyn College, CUNY, Brooklyn, NY Music Theory Gender and Modernism: The Music of Marion Bauer (1887-1955) and Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901- 1953)
Michele Hoffnung 1992-1993 Quinnipiac College, Hamden, CT Psychology College Women's Expectations for Work and Family
Heidi Holder 2007-2008 Central Michigan University English Women’s Roles, Urban Spaces: Female Authorship, Characterization and Performance in the Victorian Theatre
Nafisa Hoodbhoy 2000-2001 Dawn, Karachi, Pakistan Journalism Regulation of Sexuality and Identity in Pakistani Women
Eva Hooker 1992-1993 St. John’s University, Collegeville, MN Literature "Myself—the Term Between—": Forms of Silence and Self-Knowledge
Hikari Hori 2006-2007 Research Institute of Gender and Culture, Tokyo, Japan Film Gender and the Nation State: War, Women and Representation in Japan, 1931-1945
Yafei Hou 2008-2009 Beijng Administrative College, Beijing, China Sociology The Desire and Behavior of Childbearing Urban Women in Beijing
Gertrude Reif Hughes 1992-1993 Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT English A Revisionary Company: Essays Exploring Poetry as Cognition
Elizabeth Hynes 2006-2007 QA3 Gallery, Northampton, MA Art Theory, Art and Subjectivity
Adetoun Ilumoka 1997-1998 Empowerment and Action Research Center, Lagos, Nigeria Law Critical Perspectives on Law, Human Rights, and Gender in Nigeria/Africa
Sherrie A. Inness 1992-1993 Miami University of Ohio, Hamilton, OH Literature Intimate Communities: Representation and Social Transformation in Women's College Fiction, 1895- 1910
Jill Irvine 2010-2011 University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK Women and Gender Studies Women, War and Political Transformation in the Balkans
B. Folasade Iyun 1995-1996 University of Louisville, Louisville KY Geography Rural Women: Socio-Economic Cultural Factors and Environmental Change in Ondo State, Nigeria
Ruth Harriet Jacobs 1992-1993 Wellesley, MA Sociology Successful Aging for Women
Amina Jamal 2003-2004 University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Education Appropriations of Islam and Modernity in the Practices of Jamaat-I-Islami Women in Pakistan
Gyoung Sun Jang 2007-2008 Clark University Women’s Studies Politics of De/gendering in Transnational Anti-Sex Trafficking Discourses Eleanor Jaffee 2009-2010 University at Albany, Albany, NY Social Work Gender, Family and Consumer-Oriented Outcomes in a Supported Housing Program
Myriam Yvonne Jehenson 1993-1994 University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT Comparative Literature Griselda Gambaro: Defamiliarizing the Familiar
Janice Jipson 2004-2005 National Louis University, Beloit, WI Interdisciplinary Studies Elizabeth Peabody and the Emergence of the American Kindergarten
Constance Johnson 1997-1998 Valley Psychiatric Service, Inc., Springfield, MA Social Work & Human Development African-American Females and Gender Dysphoria
Helen Johnson 2005-2006 University of Queensland , Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Social Science Flowers of the Coconut: Women's Stories from New Caledonia
Melissa Johnson 2000-2001 Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA Art History Visions of Weimar Culture in the Scrapbook of Hannah Hoch
Sara Dalmas Jonsberg 1992-1993 Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ Education Composing the "Personal Text": Teen Mothers, School, and the Operations of Discourse
Patricia Larson Kalayjian 1997-1998 California State University, Carson, CA English Writing/Righting America: The Fiction of Catherine Maria Sedgwick
Leyla Keough 2005-2006 University of Massachusetts Amherst , Amherst, MA Cultural Anthropology Driven Women: A Transnational Ethnography of Illegal Migrant Domestic Workers in the Margins of Postsocialist Europe
Sarah S. Kilborne 1992-1993 New York, NY Biography Godmother of the Muse: The Biography of Belle Skinner
Lucinda Kidder 2004-2005 University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA Theatre Gender, Identity and Performance in the Twenty-first Century Arab American Community
Louise (Lucy) W. Knight 1996-1997 Evanston, IL Biography The Civil Self: A Biography of Jane Addams
Anne Kornblatt 1999-2000 Amherst Public Schools, Amherst, MA Education How Will Boys Be Boys? Portraits of Aggression in Play
Päivi Korvajärvi 1998-1999 University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland Sociology Gendering Dynamics in White-Collar Work Organizations
Kate Kruckemeyer 2001-2002 George Washington University, Washington, D.C. American Studies More than Just a Pretty Face: Feminism, Race and Popular Culture for Girls, 1955-1999
Sonia Kruks 1992-1993 Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH Politics Gender and Subjectivity: Beyond the Postmodernity Debate
Yenlin Ku 1993-1994 Taipei City Government, Hsinchu, Taiwan Gender Studies A Comparative Study of Women's Movements
Annette Kuhn 1993-1994 Bowland College, Lancaster, United Kingdom Film Studies The Daughter's Lament: Memory Work, Productions of the Self
Ceyda Kuloğlu-Karsli 2010-2011 Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey Women’s Experiences in Internal Displacement: A Case of the Current Armed Conflict in Turkey
Elizabeth Lambert 1991-1992 North Adams State College, North Adams, MA English "And Darwin says they are nearer the cow": Evolutionary Discourse in Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out
Patricia Lambert 2005-2006 Ministry of Health, Pretoria, South Africa Law Human Rights, Women and Tobacco Control
June Lapidus 2004-2005 Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL Economics What can the History of Feminist Economic Thought teach us about Social Science Methodology?
Joan Larkin 1993-1994 Brooklyn, NY Poetry An AIDS Passion Play
Kathleen Laughin 2000-2001 Metropolitan State University, St Paul, MN History & Women’s Studies White-Gloved Sisterhood: The Politics of Women’s Clubs, 1945-1970
Hyun Joo Lee 2010-2011 New York University, New York, NY Performance Studies Contemporary Scenes: Asian American Performance
Claudia Leeb 2003-2004 New School University, New York, NY Political Science Toward a New Theory of Social Justice: Exposing the Symbolic Violence of Class and Gender Injustice
Stephanie Levin 1993-1994 New England Learning Center for Women in Transition, Greenfield, MA Law Equality and Violence: Reconstructing the Idea of Citizenship
Tobe Levin 2004-2005 University of Maryland in Europe Comparative Literature A Translation of Nura Abdi’s Memoir, Traenen im Sand (Desert Tears)
Miriam Levin 1992-1993 Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH History Science, Sex, and the History of Liberal Arts Colleges: The Case of Mount Holyoke
Marie Lovrod 2003-2004 St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada Women’s Studies Literary Survivors: Issues in the Representation of Child Sexual Abuse
Harriet Lutzky 1999-2000 University of Paris, Paris, France Psychology The Sacred and the Early Relation to the Mother
Jacquelyne Luce 2009-2010 Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, Germany Cultural Studies Gender and Generation: Technologies of Knowing/Practices of Caring
Peggy Maisel 2000-2001 University of Natal, Durban, South Africa Law Improving Access to Justice for Women in South Africa
Robin Maltz 2001-2002 New York University, New York, NY Performance Studies Recovery and Resistance;: Childhood Sexual Trauma, Therapeutic Feminism and Performance
Milena Marchesi 2008-2009 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA Anthropology Contested Subjects: The Politics of Integration, Reproduction and the Family in Contemporary Italy
Sylvia Marcos 1996-1997 Union Theological Seminary, New York, New York Psychology Muted Voices: Contributions of Indigenous Medical Practices to Health in Latin America
Sarah Marusek 2007-2008 University of Massachusetts Amherst Political Science Politics of the Parking Space: Rights, Identity and Property
Frances Mascia-Lees 1991-1992 Simon’s Rock College, Great Barrington, MA Women's Studies and Anthropology An Oblique Look: Race, Gender and the Gaze (with Patricia Sharpe)
Sandra Matthews 1996-1997 Hampshire College, Amherst, MA Film and Photography Pregnant Pictures: The Work of Women in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Tamar Mayer 1995-1996 Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT Geography Multinationalism and the Jewish State: Perception, Reality, and Gender
Patricia McFadden 2001-2002 Southern Africa Research Institute for Policy Studies, Harare, Zimbabwe Sociology The Intersection of the African Women’s Movement, Nationalism and the State in Africa
Ksanna Mazhurina 2006-2007 Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia Asian and African Studies The Quest for Selfhood: Contemporary Russian and Chinese Women Writers
Sandra McEvoy 2007-2008 Clark University Women’s Studies Protestant Paramilitaries in Northern Ireland: Women’s Untold Stories
Christian McEwen 2010-2011 Freelance Writer and Editor, Northampton, MA Legal Tender: Women and the Secret Life of Money
Eleanor McLaughlin 1992-1993 Southampton, MA Theology Uncovering and Re-reading the Female/Feminine Holy in the Western Christian Tradition
Aorewa McLeod 1996-1997 University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Literature Silenced Narratives: Why New Zealand Women Stopped Writing
Lisa McLoughlin 2003-2004 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Rensselaer, NY Science and Technology Studies Woman Engineering Student Survival Guide Handbook
Terri Meigs 2001-2002 Franklin Community Action Corporation, Greenfield, MA Special Education Single Women Caregivers of Children with Disabilities
Linda Lucia Meccouri 1996-1997 Holyoke Community College, Holyoke, MA Education Making It: Resilient Women Overcoming Adversity
Ann Meeropol 2004-2005 Independent Scholar, Wilbraham, MA Education A Cold Wind: The Defeat of Female Leadership at Mount Holyoke College, 1931-1937
Tanagra Melgarejo 1996-1997 Northampton, MA Social Thought & Political Economy Latinas in Their Own Voices: Living with Housing Segregation in the Pioneer Valley
Patricia Melzer 2005-2006 Temple University, Philadelphia, PA Women and Gender Studies The Gender of Political Violence: Women in Radical Left Political Groups in Germany and the US in the 1970s
Pamela Glenn Menke 1994-1995 Regis College, Newburyport, MA Literature Transfiguring Fictions of Hurston, Morrison, and Erdrich
Kalyani Menon 2002-2003 Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY Anthropology Dissonant Subjects: Women in the Hindu Nationalism Movement in India
Caroline Merithew 2009-2010 University of Dayton, Dayton, OH History Finding Katie DeRorre: An Immigrant Transnational and Her American Century Marla Miller 1994-1995 University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, MA History Gender and Artisanry in Rural Massachusetts, 1750-1820
Quinlan Mitchell 2009-2010 Northwestern University Radio, Television and Film Camp TV: Commercial Counterpublics and the Cultural Production of Queer Gender
Amanda Mitchell 1999-2000 University of Central Lancashire, U.K. German Literature The Myth of the “Female Democrat”: Exploring the Gendered Subject of German Right-Wing Politics
Mena Mitrano 2009-2010 Sapienza University, Rome, Italy English Susan Sontag and the Public Woman of Letters
Amy Mittelman 2010-2011 Independent Scholar, Amherst, MA Dames, Dishes and Degrees: Women and Men in Academic Communities, 1890-2009
Helen Moffett 1998-1999 Rondebosch, South Africa English Rewriting the Rossettis: A Study in Cross-gendered Sibling Rivalry and the Poetics of Dissidence
Lisa Lynelle Moore 1999-2000 YWCA, Springfield, MA Social Work The Impact of Violence on African-American Mother-Daughter Relationships
Eva W. Mubia-Njenga 1995-1996 Nairobi, Kenya Medicine Women as Disadvantaged Patients: The Role of Empowerment in Improving the Status of Women's Health in Kenya
Tabitha Mulyampiti 2008-2009 Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda Women and Gender Studies Towards the Effective Participation of Women in a Multi-Party Democracy
Bettina Musiolek 2001-2002 Freelance author, activist, scholar, Hilden, Germany Economics Globalisation, Women’s Work and Corporate Social Responsibility Case Study: Garment Industry in Central and South-East Europe
Esther D. Mwaikambo 1995-1996 Medical Women Association of Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Medicine The Moral Dilemma of Physicians Caring for Children with HIV/AIDS in Tanzania
Dorit Naaman 2004-2005 Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada Film Studies Angels, Monsters, Heroes: The Visual Representation of Palestinian and Israeli Women Fighters
Lilach Naishtat 2010-2011 Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel Cultural Studies Stories of Reading: Women’s Reading Groups Expanding the Limits of Literary Interpretation
Ilana Nash 2002-2003 Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH American Cultural Studies America’s Kid Sister: Teenage Girls and Popular Culture, 1930-1965
Jessica Nelson 1999-2000 Amherst Shelter for Adolescents, Amherst, MA Psychology Adolescent Girls and Power
Kristine Newhall 2006-2007 University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA Women’s Studies Feminist Activism in Sport, 1850-1950
Nina Crow Newington 1993-1994 Charlemont, MA Fiction and Autobiography Double Vision: Ritual Abuse, A Survivor's Story
Caroline Nichols 2006-2007 College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA American Studies Celebrity and the National Body: Encounters with the Exotic in Late Nineteenth Century America
Glenda Nieto-Cuebas 2010-2011 University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, MA Spanish The Witch’s Performance: Women, Spectacle and Society in Spanish Golden Age Theatre
Minna Nikunen 2010-2011 University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland Social Research Precarious Work at the Academy: Gender and Work/Family Balance
Laurie Nisonoff 1993-1994 Hampshire College, Amherst, MA Economics Women and Development
Marianne Notko 2001-2002 University of Jyvaskyla, Finland Sociology Power and Violence in Family Relations
Isis Nusair 2002-2003 Clark University, Worcester, MA Women’s Studies A Comparative Analysis of the Socio-Political Experiences of Three Generations of Palestinian Women Citizens of Israel, 1948-1998
Benjamin Odhoji 2001-2002 Egerton University, Njoro, Kenya Comparative Literature Homelessness at Home: African-American and Francophone West African Women’s Autobiographical Writing
Ijeoma Odoh 2009-2010 Federal University of Technology Owerri, Owerri, Nigeria General Studies Media Discourse on Kidnapping in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria
Mojubaolu Okome 2008-2009 Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY Political Science/Women’s Studies Gender, Power and Religion: Women’s Leadership in the Aladura Church in West Africa and the United States
Deborah L. Owen 1996-1997 Springfield, MA American Studies "Old" New England in the Age of Literary Reproduction
Rupal Oza 1999-2000 Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Geography Contentious Bodies: Globalization, Sexuality and the Politics of Culture in India
Elizabeth Pallitto 2001-2002 City University of New York, New York, NY Comparative Literature Laura’s Laurels: Rereadings of Platonism and Petrarchism in the work of Tullia d’Aragona
Luciana Parisi 1997-1998 Leamington Spa, UK Women's Studies "Machinic" Bodies and Women's Codification in the Information Era
Jennifer Patico 2001-2002 New York University, New York, NY Anthropology “Cultured” Consumption and Gender in Post-Soviet Transformations
Marilyn Pearsall 1993-1994 Oakland, CA Philosophy Feminist Explorations of Women and Aging
Felicity Pool 1998-1999 Greenfield, MA Education Parenting and Intimate Relationships Among American Women
Natasha Pravaz 2002-2003 York University, Toronto, Canada Anthropology Performing Hybridity: Mulatas in the Land of Carnival
Elizabeth Presa 2009-2010 University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Art & Art History Mysticism and Sculpture: Forming the Interior Castle of St. Teresa of Avila
Jaclyn Pryor 2010-2011 University of Texas, Austin, TX Theatre and Dance Deep Time: Historical Materialism in Contemporary American Performance Practices
Karen O'Meara Pullen 1996-1997 Wilbraham and Monson Academy, Wilbraham, MA Education Gender Equity Network: Creating Advocacy for the Education of Young Women
Marjean D. Purinton 1993-1994 Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX Literature Gender Issues in Opera and Drama, 1780-1830: Revolutionary Impulses (with Christine Smith- Dorey)
Nancy Rabinowitz 1993-1994 Hamilton College, Clinton, NY Comparative Literature The Ancient Women's World of Love and Ritual
Beena Rani 2008-2009 Maharajas College, Kochin, India Philosophy Women’s Life after Divorce: A Comparative Study of Massachusetts and Indian Laws
Arati Rao 1991-1992 Columbia University, New York, NY Political Science Feminist Theory and International Human Rights
Kaymarion Raymond 1998-1999 Wendell, MA History A Collaborative History: Feminists and Lesbians in the Connecticut River Valley of Western Massachusetts
Laura Reanda 1998-1999 New York, NY Public Policy State Interests and the Politics of Gender: The UN Commission on the Status of Women
Esther Redmount 1993-1994 Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO Economic History The Political Economy of Child Labor
Josna Rege 2004-2005 Independent Scholar, Amherst, MA English Toward a Rooted Cosmopolitics: Cultural Production by South Asian Women
Karen Remmler 2006-2007 Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA German Studies (Im) proper Burial and the Grounding of Cultural Memory: A Transcultural Study
L'Tanya Robinson 1998-1999 Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA Philosophy Planting Seeds: Values Clarification and Disadvantaged Young Women
Renee Romano 1995-1996 Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT History Maintaining Race: White Women, Black Women and Interracial Marriage in the United States, 1945- 1990
Susan Grant Rosen 1997-1998 Leverett, MA American Religious History "Thinkingly Christian": Student Protestantism at Smith College, 1910-1960
Dorothy J. Rosenberg 1992-1993 Former address unknown German Women in Transition from a "Real Socialist" to a "Social Market" System in the Former GDR
Rachel Roth 1994-1995 Washington University, St. Louis, MO Political Science At Women's Expense: The Costs of Fetal Rights
Ninette Rothmüller 2005-2006 Policy, Ethics and LIfe Sciences Research Institute , Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Sociology Women, Fetuses and Embryos: Embodiment and Subjectivity in the Age of Biomedicine
Karen Rowe 2003-2004 University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA English Readings from Nineteenth Century American Women Writers
Marion Röwekamp 2007-2008 University of Munich History Marie Munk: A Life Between Law and the Women’s Movement
Jennifer Rycenga 2000-2001 San Jose State University, San Jose, CA Comparative Religious Studies A Life of Opposition: Prudence Crandall, Women’s Minds, and Religious Choice in the 19th Century
Maliha Safri 2005-2006 University of Massachusetts Amherst , Amherst, MA Economics The Global Household
Ariel Salleh 2003-2004 University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia Social Ecology Globalization, Gene Technology and Cultural Resistance
Carlyn Saltman 2008-2009 Your Story Matters, Turners Falls, MA Independent Filmmaker and Psychosynthesis Counselor Video Playback Counseling: Its Effectiveness for Women of Different Ages and Backgrounds
Eva Sartori 2001-2002 South Hadley, MA French An Anthology of French Jewish Women Writers in Translation
Martha J. Saunders 1994-1995 Toronto, Canada Religion Disobedient Daughters: Development of the Moral Self in Women's Autobiographies
Janet Sayers 2004-2005 University of Kent, Kent, United Kingdom Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research Women, Empathy and Psychoanalysis
Mathilde Schmitt 2001-2002 Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany Sociology The Condition of Foreign Migrants in Rural Areas: A Gender Perspective
Rebecca Schneider 1992-1993 Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Theatre Studies The Explicit Body: The Legacy of "Shock" and "Savagery" in Feminist Performance Art
Nina Scott 2008-2009 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA Spanish The Portraiture of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1648/51-1695)
Paula Schwartz 1993-1994 Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT French Studies Women, Resistance, and Protest: The Demonstration of the rue de Buci, May 1942
Laura Elise Schwendinger 1996-1997 University of Chicago, Chicago, IL Music Composition Songs of Heaven and Earth
Sarah Sexton 2006-2007 The Corner House, Sturminster Newton, United Kingdom Gender and Genetics – Where Next for Feminism?
Elif Shafak 2002-2003 Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey Political Science Belated Modernity and Its Venerated and Condemned Stereotypes of Women
Chanda Shah 2003-2004 Former member, Parliament of Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal Rehabilitation of Insurgency Affected Women and Children
Maureen Shanahan 2002-2003 SUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY Art History Fernand Leger’s Fragmented Figures: Hysterical Men and Abject Objects
Patricia Sharpe 1991-1992 Simon’s Rock College, Great Barrington, MA English and Women's Studies An Oblique Look: Race, Gender and the Gaze (with Frances Mascia-Lees)
Carolyn Shread 2008-2009 Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA French Exploring Catherine Malabou's Concept of Plasticity in Translation Studies
Sinith Sittirak 2006-2007 Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand Women’s Studies and Development Studies A Feminist Critique of the Politics of Knowledge in the Thai Women’s Movement
Hilary Sloin 1999-2000 Lancaster University, U.K. Sociology Imaging Feminism: The Cultural Politics of Representing Gender in the British Press (with Hilary Hinds)
Catherine Parsons Smith 1998-1999 University of Nevada-Reno, Reno, NV Musicology Feminism and Modernism in American Music, 1880-1950: Sources, Contexts, Alternatives
Jewel Smith 2004-2005 University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH Music Music Education in Nineteenth Century American Female Seminaries
Marilyn Smith 2008-2009 Five Colleges Incorporated, Amherst, MA Independent Scholar Jane Ellen Harrison: A Classical Life and All Things Russian
Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks 2006-2007 Community, Education and Resource Development Network, Amherst, MA Education An Intergenerational Approach to Healing: African American Women Healing through Sharing Christine Smith-Dorey 1993-1994 Address unknown Music Gender Issues in Opera and Drama, 1780-1830: Revolutionary Impulses (with Marjean Purinton)
Carroll Smith-Rosenberg 1992-1993 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI History Bodies Politic: Engendering the American Subject, 1786-1850
Marla Solomon 2009-2010 School for International Training Graduate Institute, Brattleboro, VT Education Stories of Women’s Leadership
Ingrid N. Sommerkorn 1991-1992 Universitat Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany Sociology Promoting Gender Awareness in the Classroom: An Example from Germany
Yung Wha Son 1995-1996 University of California-Irvine, Irvine, CA Music Composition Embraces for Harp and Orchestra: A Musical Composition
Tonia St. Germain 2008-2009 Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, OR Gender Studies Rape as a War Crime: Judges, Prosecutors and Activists Who Made Law
Loretta Stec 2000-2001 San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA English Interwar Journalism and Liberal Feminism
Sally Steindorf 2003-2004 Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY Anthropology Television and Local Lives in Rural Rajasthan
Nora Strejilevich 2007-2008 Writer and Human Rights Researcher Women and Healing After Genocide: The Argentine Model
Sharon Hartman Strom 1991-1992 University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI History In Search of Hannah: Florence Luscomb and Her Mother
Mary Strunk 2005-2006 Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY English Secretions and Lies: Hormones, Body Languages, Biopolitics
Kim Surkan 2004-2005 Minnesota State University, Minneapolis, MN Women’s Studies Female Masculinity Then and Now: Transgendered Students at Women’s Colleges
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney 1996-1997 College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA Literature and Women's Studies Feminist Revisions of the Gothic Romance
Charlotte Templin 1992-1993 University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN English Literary Reputation and the Contemporary Woman Writer: Literary Evaluation in the Book Review
Anne Thalheimer 2004-2005 Independent Scholar, Amherst, MA Women’s Studies Gender, Violence and Heteroideology in Modern Lesbian Comix
Gulay Toksoz 2008-2009 Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey Political Science Female Labor in a Global Context
Dana Tracy 1996-1997 Hampshire County WIC, Florence, MA Family Studies and Health Barriers to Breast-Feeding among Low Income Women
Nela Trifkovic 2008-2009 Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia Composition and Performance Studies Nine Lives of a Cat
Peggy Tripp-Knowles 1991-1992 Lakehead University, Ontario, Canada Biology Publish and Perish in "Traditional" Science
Hisayo Ushioda 2005-2006 Keio University , Tokyo, Japan English Take Her Voice Back: Hannah Adams and Unitarian Controversy
Martha H. Verbrugge 1995-1996 Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA History Gym Periods and Monthly Periods: A History of the Debate About Exercise and Menstruation
Momoko Watanabe 1994-1995 Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan Literature The Trajectory of Feminism in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich
Kate Weigand 1993-1994 Northampton, MA History Vanguards of Women's Liberation: The Old Left and the Continuity of the Women's Movement in the United States, 1945-1970
Nan Wiegersma 2002-2003 Fitchburg State College, Fitchburg, MA Economics Women and Consumerism
Carol Wayne White 2000-2001 Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA Philosophy of Religion Constructions of Nature: Revitalizing the Legacy of Anne Conway
Barbara L. Whitten 1994-1995 Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO Physics Objectivity in Science: The Perspective of a Feminist Physicist
Ara Wilson 2004-2005 Ohio State University, Columbus, OH Women’s Studies A Transnational Study of Sexual Rights
Sarah Willburn 2002-2003 Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA English Seeing the Invisible: Spirit Photography and Victorian Vision
Bonnie Winfield 2000-2001 Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY Education & Human Development Witnessing Sacred Space: Women’s Stories from a Pilgrimage to Retrace the Middle Passage of Slavery
Janet Wirth-Cauchon 2009-2010 Drake University, Des Moines, IA Sociology Feminist Theories of Embodiment and Technology
Meredith A. Wood 1998-1999 Northampton, MA American Studies Re/Sisters in Crime: Politics and Sexuality in Lesbian Detective Fiction
Barbara Woshinsky 2002-2003 University of Miami, Miami, FL French Enclosures for Femininity: Conventual Spaces and Early Modern French Literature
Yingguo Xu 1997-1998 Northwest University, Xi'an, Shannxi, China Foreign Languages Work, Family, Welfare and Women's Literature
Yumiko Yamamoto 2000-2001 University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT Economics A Gender Perspective on Trade Expansion, Employment and Wages in Japan
Elise G. Young 1995-1996 Northampton, MA History Crossing Boundaries of Patriarchal Nationalism: Women, Health, and State Building East and West of the Jordan River
Chantal Zabus 2000-2001 Universite Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium Comparative Literature Between Rites and Rights: Excision in Women’s Postcolonial Experiential Texts
Kathleen Zane 1998-1999 University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, MA English Engendering Girls in Japanese Popular Culture
Edna Zapanta-Manlapaz 1992-1993 Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines English Angela Manalang-Gloria: A Literary Biography
Dubravka Zarkov 2007-2008 Institute of Social Studies Social Science Globalizing Gender? Militarism, ‘New Wars’ and the Global Economy
Susanne Zwingel 2003-2004 Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany Political Science How do International Women’s Rights become Effective Domestic Norms?