UCI Women's Studies Students  
Graduate Emphasis
NameMajor/Dept.
Zahra AhmedPolitical Science
Areas of Interest: Political psychology, specifically service learning and its implications for citizenship and democracy

Tamara BeauchampComparative Literature
Areas of Interest: Modernism, decadence, psychoanalysis, race and gender theory

Kelly CorwinEnglish
Area of Interest: 17th Century British Drama and Politics

Amanda L. EbnerSociology
Areas of interest: Gender, Health, Sociology of Sport, Sociology of the Body

Heather GoldsworthySocial Ecology
Areas of Interest: Women and environment, human security, environmental degradation and social change

Dissertation title: "'Financing a 'Tragedy of the Commons?': The environmental consequences of poverty alleviation through microfinance."

Jane GriffinComparative Literature
Areas of Interest: Post-dictatorship women's literature of Latin America's Southern Cone region and Spain, in particular the relationship between women's writings, women's political activism, and state transformations from dictatorships to democracies

Tara HardingeSociology
Areas of Interest: Gender, family, media and sexuality

Dissertation Title: "Benefits to Health in Marriage and Cohabitation: A State Level Analysis"

Kathryn HenneCriminology, Law and Society
Areas of Interest: 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."

Cortney L. HughesAnthropology
Areas of Interest: Feminist anthropology and the social and cultural studies of science and technology, particularly in the regulation of human reproduction and reproductive technologies through public policy and state intervention; the roles science and technology play in the production of public policy

Kim IcreverziComparative Literature
Areas of Interest: Japanese body genre cinema, erotics, affect and the politics of
spectatorship

Lilly IraniInformatics
Areas of Interest: Postcolonial studies of design and globalization; New media and labor politics

Yuka KannoVisual Studies
Areas of Interest: Feminist film theory, queer studies, queer film criticism, theories of
representation, visuality, and embodiment; queer/lesbian visual subjectivity in Japanese visual culture

Kurt MacMillanHistory
Areas of Interest: Modern European and Latin American intellectual histories, science and embodiment, post-structural critiques of historical practice; the history of constitutional medicine and its relationship to racial discourse in Latin America

Erin MoranAnthropology
Areas of Interest: Migration, citizenship, gender, and sexuality; focus on relationship between immigration policy and refugee women’s subjectivity in Ireland, particularly the impact of the 27th Amendment to the Constitution of Ireland

Natalie NewtonAnthropology
Areas of Interest: gender and sexuality, Vietnam, Vietnamese diaspora, transnational and post-colonial feminism, butch-femme, post-socialist societies, queer urban studies, queer theory

Victoria WilsonPolitical Science
Areas of Interest: Feminist theory, minority politics, race/ethnicity, particularly why race liberation orientated social movements both react to and reinscribe essentialized ideologies of gender

 
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