List of M.A. Theses

The following is a list of graduates of our Masters of Arts program and their thesis topics:

Joselyn Leimbach "Contrary to Popular Opinion: Representations of Black Lesbians in American Mainstream Film, 1995-2005" (Fall 2007)

Patty Cardozo Transnational Representations of Women on Film During the Vietnam War in Trinh T. Minh Ha's Surname Viet, Given Name Nam and Oliver Stone's Heaven And Earth" (Fall 2007)

Lisa Chavez "Vietnamese Women: War, Representation, and Commemoration." (Summer 2007)

Stephanie Chaban "Occupied Homes: Militarization, Masculinity and Domestic Violence In Nablus, Palestine" (Spring 2007)

Maia Thrift-Perry "Commodified Bodies: The Intersection of Race, Gender and Globalization in the Dominican Republic" (Spring 2007)

Jimena Alvarado "Easy for You to Say! Evaluating HIV Prevention Considering Latinas and Access to Power." (Spring 2007)

Xiaoxin Zeng "Marriage, the Family, and Women's Status: Daughters/Daughters-in-Law in a Southeastern Clan in post-1978 China." (Spring 2007)

Sara Foulkes "Coalitions, Collaborations, and Conflicts: The History of Women's Studies at San Diego State University from 1969-1974" (Fall 2006)

Denise Goerisch "Dystopian Bodies: Posthuman Representations of Gender in Science Fiction" (Fall 2006)

Rosalie Roberts "Separate Lives, Separate Theories: Lesbian Separatism of the 1970s" (Fall 2006)

Ana Grinberg-Vandersip "From Alien Other to Social Conscience: Women-Authored Vampires in Two Centuries" (Fall 2006).

Jeffrey Bucholtz "Off the Page, Onto the Stage: Performing Feminist Theory to Prevent Sexual Violence" (Spring 2006)

Huijie Huo "Acceptance and Resistance: Patriarchal Ideology Among Female Chinese F2 Visa Holders in the United States" (Spring 2006)

Megan Burke Envisioning our Bodily Stories with In-Flesh: Feminist Theory, Bodies and Posthuman Situations" (Spring 2006)

Angela LaGrotteria "Appalachian Women's Creative Voices: The Power of Poetry and Place in Facilitating Feminist Consciousness" (Spring 2006). Angie is pursuing a Ph.D. in Women's Studies at Emory University.

Anna L. Marsden. "Lesbian Identity and Community Online: Virtual Interaction in Women-only Cyberspaces."(Fall 2005).

Preethi Chandrasekhar. "Gendering the Partition: A Feminist Critique of Four Films on the Partition of India." (Spring 2005).

Angie De Voss. "Adolescent Girls' Sweet Dreams: An Analysis of Teen Romance Series Fiction."(Spring 2005).

Julie Fiandt. "Autobiographical Activism in the Americas: Narratives of Personal and Cultural Healing by Aurora Levins Morales and Linda Hogan." (Spring 2005).

Sarah Perlman. "Re-victimization in Domestic Violence Court Processes: Observations of a Victim Advocacy Program." (Spring 2005).

Rucha Tadwalkar. "Actualization of Equality among Indian-American Married Couples."(Spring 2005).

Yujia Huo. "Women Bartenders: An Insider's Perspective on Gender, Femininity and Asian Identity. (2004).

Rebecca Klinger. "Claiming a Shy Feminist Identity: Exploring the Tensions Between Being Feminist and Being Shy." (2004).

Kat Wood. "Performing Gender: Masculinity and HIV/AIDS in the Lives and Careers of Magic Johnson and Greg Louganis." (2004).

Robyn Highfill. "Milk, Medicine & (M)others: The International Infant Formula Controversy and the Female Body." (2004).

Eunsung Lee. "Confucianism, Nationalism & Feminism in the Development of Women's Studies in South Korea." (2004).

Carissa DiGiovanni. "Constructing Assaulted Bodies as Disabled." (2004).

Jen Orshak. "Women, Trichotillomania, and Narratives." (2004).

Margaret Slaska. "Coalition Building and Feminist Organizing in United Students Against Sweatshops." (2004).

Jaime Henderson. (2004) "The Road is No Place for a Lady: Mapping the Women's Movement in the 1960s-1970s Road Film." (2004).

Lindsey Schwartz. "Reality Television: The Modern Freakshow and Commodification of Gendered Ideals." (2004).

Shelly Tregembo. "Children's Literature as a Mechanism for Change and Validation in the Lesbian Community: A Feminist View." (Fall 2004)

Kegan Allee "Dragging Gender Politics Center Stage." (Fall 2003). Kegan is pursuing a Ph.D. in Sociology at UC Santa Barbara

Tanya Bakhru “Globalization, Reproductive Health, and Aids: Struggles of an NGO in India” (Fall 2003). Tanya has completed a Ph.D in Women’s Studies at University College, Dublin.

Britton Neubacher “The Army of S/he Art and Action Festival” (Fall 2003)

Lihong Shi “Women and Education in Rural China--The Impact of the One-Child Policy on Girls' Education in Lijia Village” (Fall 2003). She is pursuing a Ph.D. in Anthropology at Tulane University

Anud Abbassi “Women in the Jordanian Free Trade Zones: Rethinking Globalization” (Summer 2003).

Stephanie Hammerwold “Writing in the Cracks: Reclaiming Self and Community in Women¹s Memoirs” (Summer 2003)

Denise Henderson “Feminist Critique of Organized Religions: A Curriculum for Revising a Women’s Studies Course” (Summer 2003). Denise is teaching women’s studies at a community college in Missouri

Jill Hofmans “Women and the Sport of Kings” (Summer 2003)

Laura Ryan “A Curricular Teaching Module for Community College Women: Resistance and Revolution: The Zapatistas, A Case Study” (Summer 2003). Laura is teaching at Grossmont Community College in El Cajon.

Cheryl Stewart “Shaping My Body: Gendered Ideals in America and Breast Cancer Surgery” (Summer 2003).

Marnie Binfield “Dressing to Distress: Fashion as a Symbolic System and its Subversive Potential” (Summer 2002). Marnie is in the Ph.D. program in Radio, Television and Film at the University of Texas, Austin.

Gillian Wickwire “White Women’s Sororities and the Reproduction of ‘The Feminine’: Socialization, Power and Performativity” (Summer 2002). She is pursuing a Ph.D. in Women’s Studies at Emory University.

Ceylan Cemali “Bodies in Pain: Towards a New Epistemology of Resistance” (Fall 2001). Ceylan is in a Ph.D. program in the History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz.

Shaun Walsh "‘Everything is Everything’: Feminist Discourses of Black Female Rap Artists” (Fall 2001). Shaun works at the YWCA of Minneapolis, both as a coach and working to create a new Racial Justice department. She is pursuing an M.A. in teaching at Hamline University.

Ingrid Alongi “Women's Studies Meets Distance Learning : Integrating New Technologies” (Fall 2001).

H. Claire Jackson "On the Margin: An Analysis of Feminist Humor in the Life and Works of the Cartoonist Bulbul (Genny Guracar)" (Spring 2001).

Jennifer Chi-Shuan Jay (Spring 2001). Examination option.

Shannon Turk "Cyberia: The Virtually Uninhabited World of Girls' Computer Games" (Spring 2000). Shannon is the Communications and Fund Development Officer for the YWCA Mid-Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay area.

Robin Richmond "Women's Experiences of Systemic Lupus Erythemtosus from Chronic Exposure to Trichlorethylene" (Spring 2000). Robin is pursuing a Masters in Library and Information Science at the University of Arizona

Dawn Comeau "Lesbian Co-Mothers: Fighting for Identity" (Spring 2000). Dawn is enrolled in the doctoral program in Women's Studies at Emory University.

Tammi Neuscheler "Faith, Feminism and the Father: Defining a Christian Feminist Identity" (Spring 2000). She will pursue a career in nonprofits in the Washington, D.C. area.

Maricela DeMirjyn "Arte y Terapia con Latinas: Treatment for Domestic Violence" (Spring 2000). Marci has completed her Ph.D. program at UC Santa Barbara and has is now a professor at Mankato, MN.

Janet Lorenzen "Bisexuality: Politics, Social-Sexual Boundaries and the Search for Postmodern Identity" (Spring 2000). She is pursuing a job in marketing in the Minneapolis area.

Sarah Tillery "From Carnival Freak to Fashion Model: The Materialization of the Thin Female Body and the Abjection of Fat" (Spring 2000). Sarah is enrolled in the Ph.D. program in Women's Studies at University of Maryland, College Park.

Anna Andrade "A Language of Thunder and Yearning: Searching for Paradigms in Discourses on Butch-Fem" (Spring 2000). Anna is working on a second M.A. in history at SDSU with an eye towards teaching at the community college level.

Jessica Simmons "Diasporic and Sexual Identity: A Fragmented Sense of Self in Jamaica Kincaid's 'Lucy and Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven'" (Spring 2000). Jessica has accepted a position in the Teach for America program.

Andrea Dottolo "Negotiating the Development of Feminist Identity from Psychological and Postmodern Perspectives" (Spring 2000). Andrea is enrolled in a Ph.D. in Personality Psychology and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan.

Denise Martin "Confronting the Black Church and Developing Methods for Change: A Women's Approach to Violence against Black Women" (Summer 2000). Denise is studying law at Seattle University School of Law

Dawn Cicero "Passing the Talking Stick: American Indian Women's Voices Heard" (Fall 1999). Dawn is Executive Director of ATHENA, a grant writing agency.

Jennifer Marie Esquivel-Parker "Reflections: Tracing the Patterns of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Feminist Legal Thought" (Summer 1999).

Dana Semone "Dear Emily: A Children's Story Featuring the Visual and Discursive Works of the Canadian Artist Emily Carr" (Summer 1999). Dana has moved to Vancouver, British Columbia and will earn a Canadian teaching credential.

Tiffany Worboy "Feminist Perspectives on in-vitro Fertilization" (Summer 1999). She is in a Ph.D. program in Women's Studies at Emory University in Atlanta.

Beverly Yuen Thompson "Transgressing the Socially Constructed Boundaries of Race and Sexual Identity: Bisexual and Multiracial Asian/Pacific Islander Women in the Monoculture" (Spring 1999). She entered a Ph.D. program at the New School University and is Project Manager on a research project that looks at the impact of welfare reform on people of color in Harlem and the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

Melanie Green "Empowered Voices: Lesbians, Eating Problems, and Homophobia" (Spring 1998). She is Director of Gay Youth Services Program through a community center in San Francisco.

Sandra Jean Duncan McQuillen "Hannah Senesh: A Children's Book" (Spring 1998). She continues to teach elementary school in San Diego County and is looking for a publisher for her children's book.

Christy Stevens "Lesbian Intertextuality in Jeannette Winterson's Written on the Body" (Spring 1998). Christy is a Ph.D. candidate in Literature at UC Irvine.

Kendall Morgan "Listening to the Sounds of Sexual Harassment: Applying Feminist Qualitative Research to Visual Practice" (Spring 1997). She received her MFA from Columbia in filmmaking and is an independent film producer.



	List of M.A. Theses

Home Program History Newsletter About the Program Class Schedule Course Syllabi Master's Program Faculty Community Bread and Roses International Colloquia Internships Scholarships	The following is a list of graduates of our Masters of Arts program and their thesis topics: Joselyn Leimbach "Contrary to Popular Opinion: Representations of Black Lesbians in American Mainstream Film, 1995-2005" (Fall 2007) Patty Cardozo Transnational Representations of Women on Film During the Vietnam War in Trinh T. Minh Ha's Surname Viet, Given Name Nam and Oliver Stone's Heaven And Earth" (Fall 2007) Lisa Chavez "Vietnamese Women: War, Representation, and Commemoration." (Summer 2007) Stephanie Chaban "Occupied Homes: Militarization, Masculinity and Domestic Violence In Nablus, Palestine" (Spring 2007) Maia Thrift-Perry "Commodified Bodies: The Intersection of Race, Gender and Globalization in the Dominican Republic" (Spring 2007) Jimena Alvarado "Easy for You to Say! Evaluating HIV Prevention Considering Latinas and Access to Power." (Spring 2007) Xiaoxin Zeng "Marriage, the Family, and Women's Status: Daughters/Daughters-in-Law in a Southeastern Clan in post-1978 China." (Spring 2007) Sara Foulkes "Coalitions, Collaborations, and Conflicts: The History of Women's Studies at San Diego State University from 1969-1974" (Fall 2006) Denise Goerisch "Dystopian Bodies: Posthuman Representations of Gender in Science Fiction" (Fall 2006) Rosalie Roberts "Separate Lives, Separate Theories: Lesbian Separatism of the 1970s" (Fall 2006) Ana Grinberg-Vandersip "From Alien Other to Social Conscience: Women-Authored Vampires in Two Centuries" (Fall 2006). Jeffrey Bucholtz "Off the Page, Onto the Stage: Performing Feminist Theory to Prevent Sexual Violence" (Spring 2006) Huijie Huo "Acceptance and Resistance: Patriarchal Ideology Among Female Chinese F2 Visa Holders in the United States" (Spring 2006) Megan Burke Envisioning our Bodily Stories with In-Flesh: Feminist Theory, Bodies and Posthuman Situations" (Spring 2006) Angela LaGrotteria "Appalachian Women's Creative Voices: The Power of Poetry and Place in Facilitating Feminist Consciousness" (Spring 2006). Angie is pursuing a Ph.D. in Women's Studies at Emory University. Anna L. Marsden. "Lesbian Identity and Community Online: Virtual Interaction in Women-only Cyberspaces."(Fall 2005). Preethi Chandrasekhar. "Gendering the Partition: A Feminist Critique of Four Films on the Partition of India." (Spring 2005). Angie De Voss. "Adolescent Girls' Sweet Dreams: An Analysis of Teen Romance Series Fiction."(Spring 2005). Julie Fiandt. "Autobiographical Activism in the Americas: Narratives of Personal and Cultural Healing by Aurora Levins Morales and Linda Hogan." (Spring 2005). Sarah Perlman. "Re-victimization in Domestic Violence Court Processes: Observations of a Victim Advocacy Program." (Spring 2005). Rucha Tadwalkar. "Actualization of Equality among Indian-American Married Couples."(Spring 2005). Yujia Huo. "Women Bartenders: An Insider's Perspective on Gender, Femininity and Asian Identity. (2004). Rebecca Klinger. "Claiming a Shy Feminist Identity: Exploring the Tensions Between Being Feminist and Being Shy." (2004). Kat Wood. "Performing Gender: Masculinity and HIV/AIDS in the Lives and Careers of Magic Johnson and Greg Louganis." (2004). Robyn Highfill. "Milk, Medicine & (M)others: The International Infant Formula Controversy and the Female Body." (2004). Eunsung Lee. "Confucianism, Nationalism & Feminism in the Development of Women's Studies in South Korea." (2004). Carissa DiGiovanni. "Constructing Assaulted Bodies as Disabled." (2004). Jen Orshak. "Women, Trichotillomania, and Narratives." (2004). Margaret Slaska. "Coalition Building and Feminist Organizing in United Students Against Sweatshops." (2004). Jaime Henderson. (2004) "The Road is No Place for a Lady: Mapping the Women's Movement in the 1960s-1970s Road Film." (2004). Lindsey Schwartz. "Reality Television: The Modern Freakshow and Commodification of Gendered Ideals." (2004). Shelly Tregembo. "Children's Literature as a Mechanism for Change and Validation in the Lesbian Community: A Feminist View." (Fall 2004) Kegan Allee "Dragging Gender Politics Center Stage." (Fall 2003). Kegan is pursuing a Ph.D. in Sociology at UC Santa Barbara Tanya Bakhru “Globalization, Reproductive Health, and Aids: Struggles of an NGO in India” (Fall 2003). Tanya has completed a Ph.D in Women’s Studies at University College, Dublin. Britton Neubacher “The Army of S/he Art and Action Festival” (Fall 2003) Lihong Shi “Women and Education in Rural China--The Impact of the One-Child Policy on Girls' Education in Lijia Village” (Fall 2003). She is pursuing a Ph.D. in Anthropology at Tulane University Anud Abbassi “Women in the Jordanian Free Trade Zones: Rethinking Globalization” (Summer 2003). Stephanie Hammerwold “Writing in the Cracks: Reclaiming Self and Community in Women¹s Memoirs” (Summer 2003) Denise Henderson “Feminist Critique of Organized Religions: A Curriculum for Revising a Women’s Studies Course” (Summer 2003). Denise is teaching women’s studies at a community college in Missouri Jill Hofmans “Women and the Sport of Kings” (Summer 2003) Laura Ryan “A Curricular Teaching Module for Community College Women: Resistance and Revolution: The Zapatistas, A Case Study” (Summer 2003). Laura is teaching at Grossmont Community College in El Cajon. Cheryl Stewart “Shaping My Body: Gendered Ideals in America and Breast Cancer Surgery” (Summer 2003). Marnie Binfield “Dressing to Distress: Fashion as a Symbolic System and its Subversive Potential” (Summer 2002). Marnie is in the Ph.D. program in Radio, Television and Film at the University of Texas, Austin. Gillian Wickwire “White Women’s Sororities and the Reproduction of ‘The Feminine’: Socialization, Power and Performativity” (Summer 2002). She is pursuing a Ph.D. in Women’s Studies at Emory University. Ceylan Cemali “Bodies in Pain: Towards a New Epistemology of Resistance” (Fall 2001). Ceylan is in a Ph.D. program in the History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz. Shaun Walsh "‘Everything is Everything’: Feminist Discourses of Black Female Rap Artists” (Fall 2001). Shaun works at the YWCA of Minneapolis, both as a coach and working to create a new Racial Justice department. She is pursuing an M.A. in teaching at Hamline University. Ingrid Alongi “Women's Studies Meets Distance Learning : Integrating New Technologies” (Fall 2001). H. Claire Jackson "On the Margin: An Analysis of Feminist Humor in the Life and Works of the Cartoonist Bulbul (Genny Guracar)" (Spring 2001). Jennifer Chi-Shuan Jay (Spring 2001). Examination option. Shannon Turk "Cyberia: The Virtually Uninhabited World of Girls' Computer Games" (Spring 2000). Shannon is the Communications and Fund Development Officer for the YWCA Mid-Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay area. Robin Richmond "Women's Experiences of Systemic Lupus Erythemtosus from Chronic Exposure to Trichlorethylene" (Spring 2000). Robin is pursuing a Masters in Library and Information Science at the University of Arizona Dawn Comeau "Lesbian Co-Mothers: Fighting for Identity" (Spring 2000). Dawn is enrolled in the doctoral program in Women's Studies at Emory University. Tammi Neuscheler "Faith, Feminism and the Father: Defining a Christian Feminist Identity" (Spring 2000). She will pursue a career in nonprofits in the Washington, D.C. area. Maricela DeMirjyn "Arte y Terapia con Latinas: Treatment for Domestic Violence" (Spring 2000). Marci has completed her Ph.D. program at UC Santa Barbara and has is now a professor at Mankato, MN. Janet Lorenzen "Bisexuality: Politics, Social-Sexual Boundaries and the Search for Postmodern Identity" (Spring 2000). She is pursuing a job in marketing in the Minneapolis area. Sarah Tillery "From Carnival Freak to Fashion Model: The Materialization of the Thin Female Body and the Abjection of Fat" (Spring 2000). Sarah is enrolled in the Ph.D. program in Women's Studies at University of Maryland, College Park. Anna Andrade "A Language of Thunder and Yearning: Searching for Paradigms in Discourses on Butch-Fem" (Spring 2000). Anna is working on a second M.A. in history at SDSU with an eye towards teaching at the community college level. Jessica Simmons "Diasporic and Sexual Identity: A Fragmented Sense of Self in Jamaica Kincaid's 'Lucy and Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven'" (Spring 2000). Jessica has accepted a position in the Teach for America program. Andrea Dottolo "Negotiating the Development of Feminist Identity from Psychological and Postmodern Perspectives" (Spring 2000). Andrea is enrolled in a Ph.D. in Personality Psychology and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan. Denise Martin "Confronting the Black Church and Developing Methods for Change: A Women's Approach to Violence against Black Women" (Summer 2000). Denise is studying law at Seattle University School of Law Dawn Cicero "Passing the Talking Stick: American Indian Women's Voices Heard" (Fall 1999). Dawn is Executive Director of ATHENA, a grant writing agency. Jennifer Marie Esquivel-Parker "Reflections: Tracing the Patterns of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Feminist Legal Thought" (Summer 1999). Dana Semone "Dear Emily: A Children's Story Featuring the Visual and Discursive Works of the Canadian Artist Emily Carr" (Summer 1999). Dana has moved to Vancouver, British Columbia and will earn a Canadian teaching credential. Tiffany Worboy "Feminist Perspectives on in-vitro Fertilization" (Summer 1999). She is in a Ph.D. program in Women's Studies at Emory University in Atlanta. Beverly Yuen Thompson "Transgressing the Socially Constructed Boundaries of Race and Sexual Identity: Bisexual and Multiracial Asian/Pacific Islander Women in the Monoculture" (Spring 1999). She entered a Ph.D. program at the New School University and is Project Manager on a research project that looks at the impact of welfare reform on people of color in Harlem and the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Melanie Green "Empowered Voices: Lesbians, Eating Problems, and Homophobia" (Spring 1998). She is Director of Gay Youth Services Program through a community center in San Francisco. Sandra Jean Duncan McQuillen "Hannah Senesh: A Children's Book" (Spring 1998). She continues to teach elementary school in San Diego County and is looking for a publisher for her children's book. Christy Stevens "Lesbian Intertextuality in Jeannette Winterson's Written on the Body" (Spring 1998). Christy is a Ph.D. candidate in Literature at UC Irvine. Kendall Morgan "Listening to the Sounds of Sexual Harassment: Applying Feminist Qualitative Research to Visual Practice" (Spring 1997). She received her MFA from Columbia in filmmaking and is an independent film producer.
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