Gender, Land, and Food Sovereignty in Nicaragua
by Rachel Mallinga, Master’s Candidate, Department of Public Policy, Planning, and Management
CSWS Graduate Student Research Grant
Placing Mexico on the Map: Rosario Castellanos and Global Feminist Literature
by Erin Gallo, PhD candidate, Department of Romance Languages
Beyond Bonds of Blood: Queer Families and the Limits of the Marriage Equality Movement
by Kenneth Surles, PhD candidate, Department of History
Listening as Learning: Reflections on an Ethnography of Gender in Quinhagak, Alaska
by Anna Sloan, PhD candidate, Department of Anthropology
Developing Style: How The Washington Post Discovered Women’s Issues
by Thomas R. Schmidt, PhD, Research Fellow, Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics
In 1969, the Washington Post was the first major American newspaper to replace its women’s pages with a lifestyle section. Introducing the Style section was one of the most lasting legacies of famed Post editor Ben Bradlee. As he later described the launch of Style, “We wanted to look at the culture of America as it was changing in front of our eyes. The sexual revolution, the drug culture, the women’s movement. And we wanted to be interesting, exciting, different.”1
Understanding Women’s Agency in Rural Punjab, Pakistan
by Sarah Ahmed, PhD candidate, Department of Sociology
The Birth of an American Staple Fruit: Reading Bananas from Cookbooks
by Helen Yi-lun Huang, Graduate Student, Department of English
“Yes, we have no bananas
We have-a no bananas today.”
Developing a Disability Legal Consciousness: Racism & Ableism in Special Education Advocacy
by Katie Warden, PhD candidate, Department of Sociology
Falls & Fatigue: The Effect of Mental Fatigue in Postural Stability in Women and Men
by Amanda Morris, PhD Candidate, Department of Human Physiology
At conferences, I am often asked, “Why are you interested in studying older adults?” My answer is simple; I believe aging is the future.
Concussion: Physiological Consequences of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Women and Men
by Alia Yasen is a PhD candidate in the Department of Human Physiology