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Women Studies Program
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University of New Mexico
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Feminist Research Institute
Graduate Student Directory
Beth Bernstein
Spanish and Portugese
Contemporary Golden Age Spanish Plays, Gender and Sexual Identity
Varda Brahms
Educational Thought and Sociocultural Studies Program
Spirituality and Wisdom/mystical traditions, in Judaism, Sufism and all world religions, especially through sacred music, dance and spiritual practices, women's wisdom. Education - holistic, alternative, artistic approaches to working with and honoring the spirit of children - creating freedom in & out of 'the system'. Personal growth & transformation. Conflict mediation. Peacework, especially in the Mideast. vardab@cybermesa.com
Leah Cluff
Art History: Contemporary Native American Art
Artists involved in contemporary art production, especially by women under-represented in current scholarship
Sonia de Souza
Educational Thought and Sociocultural Studies
Women, Gender, Race, Class, Sociocultural issues, Education, Power relations at local, national and international arenas
Jessica Enevold
History (visiting Fullbright researcher, pre-doc.)
English, travel and feminist theory. Mobility, road books/movies, female subjectivity in the new media. What does the new media "do" for the representation and potential "growth" of female/feminine/feminist subjectivity. Genre transformation, feminist theory in general, tourism and travel.
Betsy Erbaugh
Sociology
Women's community organizing, welfare, social movements, gender, race and class.
Leta Evaskus
Photography
Androgyny, sexual orientation, beauty and characteristics that surpass gender.
Ethel Nicdao Gamboa
Sociology: Race & Ethnicity, Gender, Medical Sociology
Race and ethnicity, gender, sexuality, medical sociology. Current research with CASAA in alcohol use among Native Americans by gender and tribe.
Logan Greene
English: Rhetoric and Literary Theory
Ecriture feminine, the French feminists, feminist theory
Ashley Grisso
Communication and Journalism
Women's rites of passage, media literacy and education
Stephanie Gustafson
English: Contemporary American and Ethnic literatures, Women's literature
Memoir, Native American literature, Gender studies, Queer studies, and feminist theory
Suelynn Jaroch
History: Modern Europe (Germany/Poland)
Gender & War Memories, the holocaust, individual vs. collective memory
Miria Kano
Anthropology
Women in Judaism, Performance, Ritual, Ethnoaesthetics
Kim Klimek
History: Medieval
Women's history; religion: gender roles, relation to godhead; medieval mysticism and education
Donna Knaff
American Studies
Popular culture/gender studies, Female masculinity in the popular graphic art of WWII.
Ph.D. Candidate, anticipated graduation Spring 2006.
Kate Lehman
American Studies
Television/film and popular culture studies, feminist history and theory, sexuality studies, cultural history
Michele Leiby
PhD candidate, Department of Political Science
mleiby@unm.edu, 505-277-4699
The use of sexual violence during civil wars in Latin America
Rachel Liberatore
English Department
Female poets, gender and symbolism/metaphor, gay and lesbian literature
Erik Loomis
History
Gender and work, gender and power. How notions of gender are used to oppress others both within the same gender and with other genders.
Karen McCue
Sociology
Organizations, work, gender identity, gender roles, patriarchy, gender and capitalism, feminism.
Lena McQuade
American Studies
Reproductive Politics; Intersections of Race, Gender and Nationalism; Feminist and Queer Theories
Masato Nakazawa
Anthropology
Divorce, attachment theory, biology and human behavior
Lavinia Nicolae
Anthropology
Post-socialism, nation-state construction, female image and sexuality
Becca Shreve
Latin American Studies and Law (MA/JD dual degree)
Domestic violence and immigration/asylum/refugee law, international law and gender, family law, access to justice issues
Marisa Sikes
English, Literature
Medieval Literature, Medieval Women Writers, Women Writers, Feminist Theory
Dawn Stracener
Educational Thought and Sociocultural Studies
Women and narrative and how/why this constructs identity. Research working with returning women students to a four-year university.
Elizabeth Swift
American Studies
Dress and Identity, dress codes and uniforms, child pageantry, male circumcision
Tiffany Thomas-Woodard
History
Modern Latin America, gender and sexuality, social movements, urban history, Cuba
Dissertation: "Desiring Nation: Negotiating Prostitution, Citizenship, and Modernity in Cuba, 1840-1920"
Sue Taylor
History, Latin America
women, gender, race and ethnicity, honor, power
Melina Vizcaino
American Studies: Race, Class, Ethnicity and Gender Studies
Popular culture, film studies, Latino/a studies, politics of representation
Deborah Weagel
English
Contemporary Literature, Interdisciplinary Studies, Musico-Literary Criticism, Feminism/Gender Studies, Biography/Autobiography/Memoir
Ph.D. Dissertation, "The Metaphor of the Quilt in Contemporary Asian Indian and American Indian Literature."
Email: dweagel@unm.edu
Website: http://deborahweagel.8m.com