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Graduate Students' Research and Accomplishments

Areas of Research

Anna Allocco, Social Policy & WGS

Sarah Baer, Music & WGS

Ivana Cikes, English and American Literature & WGS

Cate Anne Cunningham, English and American Literature & WGS

Amy Easton, English and American Literature & WGS

Erin Erhart, English and American Literature & WGS

Wendy Fergusson, NEJS & WGS

Sara L. Frailich, Anthropology & WGS

Caroline Marie Godart, English and American Literature & WGS
Women's literature, feminist, gender and sexuality studies.

Kylie Hanify, Anthropology & WGS
South Asian women, Goddess Cultures (especially devotees to the Ten Tantric wisdom Goddesses called the "Mahavidyas"), Gender and Tibetan nuns.

Alexandra Herzog, NEJS & WGS

Emily Ann Hogan, Sociology & WGS

Sonja Jacob, Sociology & WGS

Georgette Kennebrae, NEJS & WGS

Rachel Kulick, Sociology & WGS
Visual Sociology; Representations of Race and Gender; Transnational Social Movements; Media Democracy; Feminist Methods

Shane Landrum, American History & WGS

Nehraz Mahmud, Anthropology & WGS
Gender mainstreaming in development planning.

Clare McBee-Wise, Anthropology & WGS
Public interest anthropology, transgender/genderqueer/transexual rights and issues, gender violence, trauma, mental health, Tibetan culture

Marianne McPherson, Social Policy & WGS

Elisabeth Moolenaar, Anthropology & WGS
Sociocultural. Construction of “identity” among youngsters from interethnic backgrounds; immigrant cultures; Religion and society; Political Anthropology, specifically power relations and globalism; neocolonialism and developmental problems; language and power; Africa, United States, and South East Asia.

Stephanie Papadakis, Anthropology & WGS
Establishment of the "queer" identity in America; biphobia within the dyke community and how the "queer" identity promotes it; physical anthropology; homosexual behavior in human and nonhuman primates.

Anne Blount Rodman, Anthropology & WGS
Formation of homosexual identity in North America in terms of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and education. Interested in comparing homosexual identity formation of immigrants to North America and first generation North Americans vis-à-vis the above subjects.

Naomi Schiesel, Anthropology & WGS
Sociocultural. Critical Medical, Feminist and Urban Anthropology. The body, gender, reproduction and sexuality. Teenage childbearing, the female experience of urban poverty, institutionalized inequality and the political economy of social suffering. Power relations and modes of resistance.

Bendta Schroeder, English and American Literature & WGS

Audrey Shore, NEJS & WGS
Sex and gender in sacred literature (specifically Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) with a focus on Genesis, as well as limited experience in Christian Bible (New Testament) and Qur'an); thesis entitled "Honey from the Rock: Gender-Conscious Exegesis of Biblical and Qur'anic Texts."

Christann Spiegel, Sociology & WGS

Julia Wexler, English and American Literature & WGS

Courtney Work, Anthropology & WGS
Southeast Asia, Religion, Sustainable development, Education, Service Learning and Participatory Action Research.

Fei-ju Yang, Sociology & WGS


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Awards and Grants

Anna Allocco, Social Policy & WGS
Spencer Foundation Fellow 2004-2005, “Activity in the Margins: How Immigrant and Refugee Youth Conceptualize and Practice Democracy”

Spencer Foundation Research Grant 2003-2004, “How high school students in the community of Portland, ME think about and experience democratic practices in their public high schools.”

Wendy Fergusson, NEJS & WGS
The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry Research Award 2005-2006

Rachel Kulick, Sociology & WGS
Spencer Foundation Research Grant 2004-2005, “How Youth Develop Political Agency in a Globalizing World”

Naomi Schiesel, Anthropology & WGS
Jane's Travel Grant for "The Female Experience of Urban Poverty: Preliminary Research into Latino Adolescent Pregnancy and Mothering in the Fruitvale Community of Oakland, CA”, 2006


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Papers and Publications

Wendy Fergusson, NEJS & WGS
2006 Brandeis Graduate Journal, “"How-to" Date: Jewish matchmaking books come cover to cover with normative American dating self-help guides”

Caroline Marie Godart, English and American Literature & WGS
"Belgian Beguines from the 12th-14th Centuries: Sketch of a Feminine Independence," Medievalism Transformed, University of Wales, Bangor (UK), 2006

Rachel Kulick, Sociology & WGS
2005 Brandeis Graduate Journal, “Teen Voices Magazine: Re-appropriating Girl Talk”

Co-authored a chapter, "Reading between the Lines: Feminist Content Analysis into the Second Millennium," with Shula Reinharz for Sharlene Hesse-Biber's upcoming anthology, Handbook of Feminist Research.

Elisabeth Moolenaar, Anthropology & WGS
"The New England Holocaust Memorial: Potentialities of Modernity Revisited," co-authored with Mrinalini Tanka, American Anthropology Association, 2006

Audrey Shore, NEJS & WGS
2005 Brandeis Graduate Journal, "Man at His Best" vs. "Fun Fearless Female": Gender-Based Differences in Advice Columns in Esquire and Cosmopolitan

Courtney Work, Anthropology & WGS
"What We Said, What They Heard: Problems Bringing Anthropology to Middle School," presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, 2005

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