2023 CSWS Research Grant and Fellowship Awardees

Jane Grant Dissertation Fellow

  • Marena Lear, Comparative Literature, “Their Bodies, Our Selves: Posthuman Embodiment in Latin American Speculative Cinema.”

Graduate Writing Completion Fellow

  • Maria Baudoin Teran, Romance Languages, “Writings in Multitude in Latin American Literature of the 20th and 21st Centuries (Escrituras en muchedumbre en la literature latinoamericana de los siglos XX y XXI).” 

Graduate Student Research Grants

  • Precious Adejumobi, Anthropology, “Medicine on-the-bus: Alternative Healthcare for Women on Transportation Routes in Lagos, Nigeria.”
  • Shahinur Bashar, Planning, Public Policy, and Management, “Workplace Diversity and Inclusion: Guidelines and Best Practices for Organizations in Bangladesh Hiring Transgender People.”
  • Neeka Bayat-Barooni, Human Physiology, “Investigation of the Mechanisms Underlying Fetal Metabolic Programming Following Exposure to Adverse Intrauterine Environment.”
  • Mary Cartee, Education Studies, “We Can’t Just Yoga and Hot Tea Our Way Out of Systems of Oppression: A Research and Support Group Project.”
  • Ivy Fofie, School of Journalism and Communication, “Women in Local Language Advice Programs in Ghana: History, Political Economy, Content.”
  • Victoria Guazzelli Williamson, Psychology, “Is Other-oriented Social Cognition the Missing Link Bridging Social Status and Internalizing Disorders in Young Women?”
  • Jack Hart, School of Journalism and Communication, “The Invisible Labor of Personal Gender-Queer Video Games.”
  • Dee Jolly, Anthropology, “Determining the Role of Social Determinants of Health in Sexual Orientation-based Chronic Pain Disparities in the United States.”
  • Rosa O’Connor Acevedo, Philosophy, “Archival Research on Gender and Racial Discourse on Enslaved Women from Puerto Rico.”
  • Min Young Park, English, “Tempted Bad Taste: An Ethical and Affective Approach to Unread the Failure of Art, Fashion, and Food in Late Modernist Novels.”
  • Annalee Ring, Philosophy, “Investigating White Women’s Linguistic Terrorism through Sociogenic Feminist Semiology.”
  • Anu Sugathan, English, “Re-examining the Context, Culture, and Medium in the Representations of Gender in South Asian and South Asian American Graphic Narratives.”
  • Ariadne Wolf, Conflict and Dispute Resolution, “Recovering My Lost History: The Aunt Whose Story Helped Me Find My Own Voice.”
  • Wenyi Yang, Sociology, “A Queer Quantitative Query: Sexual Injustices and Social Contexts.”

Faculty Research Grants

  • Lana Lopesi, Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies, “Care: Samoan Feminism, Care Work, and Immaterial Labor.”
  • Michelle McKinley, School of Law, “Bound Biographies.”
  • Isabel Millán, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, “Illustrating Resilience: Children’s Picture Books for Oppressive Times.”
  • Xiaobo Su, Geography, “Aliens at Home: Myanmar Wines and the Exercise of Border Biopolitics in Yunnan, China.”
  • Priscilla Yamin, Political Science, “Contextualizing Social Egg Freezing: Eugenics, Feminism, and the Commodification of Motherhood.”