Alumni
2023
Amanda Anderson Ph.D. Dissertation: “Is My Blackness Getting On You? Race, Porousness, and the Problem of Empathy"
Samantha Wrisley Ph.D. Dissertation: "Misogyny, a Condition: Feminism, Heteropessimism, and the Self"
2022
Suzanne C. Persard “ Queering Jahaji: An Indo-Caribbean Genealogy of Speculative Erotics”
2021
Haylee Harrell Ph.D. Thesis: “ The Monstrous Mulatta: A Feminist Genealogy of A Peculiar Invention”
Samia Vasa Ph.D. Thesis: “On Not Being Able to End Rape”
Caroline Warren Ph.D. Thesis: “Caring and Killing: Care Work and Feminist Ethics in the Animal Research Laboratory”
2020
Taryn Danielle Jordan Ph.D. Thesis: “A Peculiar Sense: A Feminist Genealogy of Black Soul”
Jordan Lea Johnson Ph.D. Thesis: “Into the Forest Archive: A Feminist Genealogy of the Postindustrial Pineywoods”
Ryan Christine Kendall Ph.D. Thesis: “Uterographesis: A Queer-Feminist Theory of Sexual Reproduction”
Stephanie Colleta Emma Maria Koziej Ph.D. Thesis: “Tender Rhythms. Re-Thinking Sexuality, Selfhood and Sociality Through the Hysteric's Desire for Tenderness”
2019
Suyun Choi Ph.D. Thesis: “Going into Labor: Gender, Migration, and Neoliberal Lives in South Korea”
Abidemi Omolara Fasanmi Ph.D. Thesis: “Examining Childhood Sexual Violence: An African Womanist Analysis of Sexual Violence Against Children in Nigeria”
Ingrid Meintjes Ph.D. Thesis:
“Bodies Built for Care: Decolonizing Social Robotics through Indigenous Technologies of Care”.
2018
Chanel Craft Tanner. Ph.D. Thesis: "Beyond the Bars: Using U.S. Third World Feminism to Read Carcerality in Hip-Hop"
Natalie Turrin: Ph.D. Thesis: "Of a Similar Nature: Epigenetics and Feminist Science Studies in Conversation"
2017
Mark Smith. Ph.D. Thesis: “Bypassing the asexual paradox: A strategic retelling of the history of asexuality”
Rachel Weitzenkorn. Ph.D. Thesis: "Faces of babies: Empirical evidence on the borders of biology, psychology, and feminism”
2016
Lauran Whitworth. Ph.D. Thesis: "Environmental Eros: From Ecofeminism to Eco-Queer"
Mairead Sullivan. Ph.D. Thesis: "Strange Matter: Lesbian Death in Feminist and Queer Politics"
Nikki Karalekas. Ph.D. Thesis: "Strip Clubs and the Legal Everyday: Sex Work Studies and the Law"
Rachel Dudley. Ph.D. Thesis: "Haunted Hospital: J. Marion Sims and The Legacies of Enslaved Women"
2015
Samantha Allen. Ph.D. Thesis: "Feeling Fetishes: Toward an Affective Theory of Sexuality."
Kristin Petersen. Ph.D. Thesis: "The Logic of Futurity: Reproduction, Cultural Eugenics."
2014
Kelly Ball. Ph.D. Thesis "So Powerful a Form: Rethinking Girls' Sexuality."
Current position: Instructor in Women's Studies, Agnes Scott College
Alysia Davis. Ph.D. Thesis "To Honor and Obey: Hegemonic Negotiation in Contemporary Marriage Politics."
Current position: Financial Advisor, Morgan Stanley
Whitney Peoples. Ph.D. Thesis "Beyond Birth Control: Public Life of YAZ and Rep's of Women's Repro Health in the US Public Sphere."
Current position: Post Doctoral Provost, University of Texas
Shani Settles. Ph.D. Thesis "Flesh and Blood, Breath and Spirit: African Diaspora Religions & Womanist Discourses of Wholeness."
Current position: Visiting Professor, Haverford College (PA)
2013
Moya Bailey. Ph.D. Thesis "Race, Religion, and Gender in Early Emory School of Medicine Yearbooks."
Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Northeastern University
Cyd Cipolla. Ph.D. Thesis "After These Horrendous Crimes, that Creature Forfeits his Rights: The Sexually Violent Offender as Exceptional Criminal."
Current position: Associate Faculty Individualized Study, NYU - Gallatin
Kristina Gupta. Ph.D. Thesis "Compulsory Sexuality and Its Discontents: The Challenge of Contemporary Asexualities."
Current position: Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Wake Forest
Aimi Hamraie. Ph.D. Thesis "What Can Universal Design Know?: Bodies as Evidence in Disability-Accessible Design."
Current position: Assistant Professor of Gender and Disability, Vanderbilt University
Aby Parsons. Ph.D. Thesis "Sapphic Scarlett's, Dixie Dykes, and Tomboys: Representing female - Bodies Queerness in Contemporary Southern Novels and Film."
Current position: Director of LGBTQIA Resource Center, Georgia Tech
2012
Lisa C. Knisley. Ph.D. Thesis "The Gendered Subject of Violence: Towards a Feminist Account of Ethical Freedom."
Current position: Writer, Render: Feminist Food & Culture Quarterly
Stefanie Speanburg. Ph.D. Thesis "American, Woman, Borderline: The Material-Discursive Production of Borderline Personality."
Current position: Counselor, Private Practice, Atlanta
Angela LaGrotteria. Ph.D. Thesis "Engendering Regions in Contemporary Novels of Appalachia and the U.S. Southwest."
Current position: College Access Coordinator, Oberlin College
Shannan Palma. Ph.D. Thesis "Tales as Old as Time: Myth, Gender, and the Fairytale in American Popular Culture."
Current position: Program Coordinator for Diversity, Emory University
A. Rez Pullen. Ph.D. Thesis "Preface to Transgender: Fractures of the Wrong Body."
Current position: Dean, Wesley International Academy
Brandy Simula. Ph.D. Thesis "A `Different Economy of Bodies and Pleasures'?: Gender, Power, and Sexuality in BDSM Interactions."
Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Emory University.
Danica Camille Tisdale Fisher. Ph.D. Thesis "The Pageant Politic: Race and Representation in American Beauty Contests and Culture."
Current position: Fellowship Coordinator, Center for Global Education, Claremont McKenna College.
Erin Marie Tunney. Ph.D. Thesis "Disrupting Patriarchy: Challenging Gender Violence in Post-Apartheid South Africa and Post-Conflict Northern Ireland."
Current position: Researcher, Gender Inequality in Governmentm University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
Jae Turner [Mary J. Turner]. Ph.D. Thesis "Mary E. Hutchinson: The Absence of an Oeuvre."
Current position: Adjunct professor, Kennesaw State University and the University of West Georgia
Elizabeth Venell. Ph.D. Thesis " Queer Projections: Sexuality and Visibility through the Avant-Garde Lens."
Current position: Adjunct professor, Emory University, Oxford College.
Sarah Vitorino. Ph.D. Thesis "Overcoming the Odds: Understanding Formerly Incarcerated Women's Desistance from Crime."
Current position: Life coach and Inspirational speaker
2011
Sarah Prince. Ph.D. Thesis "With `Two Throats and One Eye': Abject Female Friendships in Contemporary American Women's Novels."
Elizabeth Simoneau. Ph.D. Thesis "Subjugated Citizenship: The Politics and Psychology of Domesticity in The Street by Ann Petry, The Dollmaker by Hariette Arnow, and The Changelings by Jo Sinclair."
Current position: Copy Editor, PreMedia Global.
2010
Paula Jayne. Ph.D. Thesis "U.S. Attitudes toward Adolescent Sexual Activity: A Feminist Analysis of the Second Demographic Transition."
Current position: Safety Unintential Injury, Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Jennifer M. Nelson. Ph.D. Thesis "Separate Shelves: Gender Distinctions and Market Segmentation in American Children's Publishing: 1860-1960."
David Rubin. Ph.D. Thesis "Intersex Before and After Gender."
Current position: Assistant Professor, University of South Florida
Angela Willey. Ph.D. Thesis "From Pair Bonding to Polygamy: A Feminist Critique of Naturalizing Discourses on Monogamy and Non-Monogamy."
Current position: Assistant Professor, Feminist Science Studies, UMASS Amherst/Five Colleges