Current Graduate Students

Joint MA in Anthropology & Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

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Taylor Harmon
Graduate Student

Research interests: indigenous perspectives on gender and sexuality, non-binaristic gender identities, sexual behavior, politics of belonging and identity, geographical focus on Mexico.

Joint MA in English & Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

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Calvin Canino Fluit
Graduate Student
Pronouns: he/him

Research Interests: Gender and sex/sexuality in science fiction and fantasy, sexual violence and coercion in fiction, histories of gender and sexuality.

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Hope Lockwood
Graduate Student
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Research Interests: incels, deconstruction of female poets and their personal lives, 20th and 21st century female writers, the confessional and deep imagery poetry movements, and how gender and sexuality influence horror works.

Joint MA in passing in Music & Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

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Marie Comuzzo Brückner
Graduate Student
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Research Interests: The intersection between the great witch hunts, the establishment of capitalism and the underrepresentation of women and BIPOC in the Western musical canon. They also engage in the critical study of anthropocentrism through the lens of nonhuman musicalities, queer and feminist theory, and anti-capitalism.

Joint MA in Sociology and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Charley Mestrich
Charley Mestrich
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Research interests: marginalized peoples and identities in the United States; transgender and queer theory; black feminist critique; subcultures; the queer and trans body and the body as monstrous; how queer people create and understand queerness

Hannah Muehlberger
Hannah Muehlberger
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Research interests: 20th and 21st-century American Literature, Feminist Studies, Motherhood and Pregnancy in Literature and Film, Sexuality in Film and Literature, Women's Memoirs, and Lifewriting.

Joint Master of Arts in Sustainable International Development and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Ian Crombie
Ian Crombie
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Research Interests: Social Inequality and Stratification; Social Networks and Culture, Gender and Sexuality, Immigration and Refugees, Social Policy, Comparative Sociology, Sustainability and Subjective Methods.

Graduate Student Experience

Monica Doebel
Monica Doebel MA’18

"The WGS program at Brandeis not only facilitated my intellectual growth, but brought me close to extraordinary friends and colleagues. My peers in the program imbue their academic work with social consciousness and strong consciences, making Brandeis WGS an environment in which compassionate and critical thought flourishes."