by Aidan Pang, PhD, Department of English

by Elinam Balimenuku Amevor PhD, School of Journalism and Communication

by Anna Dulba-Barnett, PhD Candidate, Department of Theatre Arts 

by Malvya Chintakindi, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology

“I don’t care if I live or die, I just need put some food on plate for my family. I don’t have any other support."

“I wish I did not get my daughter married at 15, but we couldn’t afford another mouth to feed or extra space for her in our one room to sleep. Afterall, I was married away when I was 12.”

“To the government, our bodies only matter during elections since the votes we cast are important for political gains. Because it is then, we are not untouchables.”

by Jon Dell Jaramillo, PhD Candidate Department of Romance Languages

by Claire Herbert, PhD, and Amanda Ricketts, MA, Department of Sociology

by Corinne Bayerl, Senior Career Instructor, Clark Honors College

By Jenée Wilde, Senior Instructor, Department of English

Baran Germen is an assistant professor of film and media studies at Colorado College. In 2018, he graduated with a PhD in comparative literature from University of Oregon, where he also completed a certificate degree in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies and specialized in film studies. His research and teaching focus on global cinema and comparative media studies, cutting across melodrama, queer theory, and Islam and secularism. 

by Jenée Wilde, Senior Instructor, Department of English

“One of the things that became clear during the pandemic is that graduate students were the most affected by lockdowns, but the institution made the least room for addressing how they were affected,” says CSWS Director Sangita Gopal. “Faculty could take a break from research, but graduate students didn’t have that leisure.”

This spring, CSWS resumed the Acker–Morgen Memorial Lecture series after winter weather and pandemic conditions had thwarted the event for the last three years. On May 20, we were thrilled to welcome on campus Dr. Raka Ray, a professor of sociology and South and Southeast Asia studies and dean of social sciences at UC Berkeley. She specializes in gender and feminist theory, domination and inequality, the emerging middle classes, and social movements. Below, political science graduate student Olivia Atkinson offers a personal reflection on Ray’s talk: