Graduation Date: May 2003
Field of Interest: Feminist Pedagogy, Third Wave Feminism, limits and freedoms inherent in Liberal Feminism
Thesis: “An Analysis of Feminist Pedagogy and its Transformative Possibilities in the Secondary English Classroom”
With today’s heavy demands placed on public secondary school teachers, it is important to keep a keen eye on the interpersonal aspects of education. Teaching from a feminist perspective fosters communication between students and their teacher while fostering an inquisitive environment. Feminist pedagogy in the English classroom draws attention to a diverse range of writers and schools of social literary criticism.
Anticipated Graduation: Spring 2005
Fields of Interest: Jackie’s interests revolve around the body and it’s interaction with religion, media, law and healthcare. She hosts a radio show with a past women’s studies graduate student named Lacey Midkiff called The F-Files: Dialogues in Feminism which can be heard on Wednesdays from 11:00 am – 12:00 pm on 88.7 FM WNHU, West Haven. One may also email her at ffileswnhu@yahoo.com.
Thesis: “Orbs of Power: The Political, Social and Health Consequences of Sexualizing Women’s Breasts”
Carol
Avery
carolavery@charter.net
Anticipated Graduation Date: May 2006
Research Interests: Women's History, Women and Education
Anticipated Graduation: Spring 2005
Fields of Interest: Women and HIV/AIDS
Karina Danvers is the Coordinator of the Connecticut AIDS
Education and
Barbara Gurr
Graduation Date: Spring 2003
Fields of Interest: Indigenous Studies
Thesis: “Win Oye Ya - The Women’s Way: An Examination of American Indian Women’s Resistance to Colonization”
Anticipated Graduation: Spring 2005
Fields of Interest: Third Wave Feminism, Medical
Anthropology, Women’s involvement with Nonbiomedical Healing Modalities, Women
and Film, Riot Grrls/DIY Movements, Postmodern Feminism/Cultural Studies,
Women’s Cultures and Spiritualities in contemporary
Thesis: “Women and Nonbiomedical Healing Modalities” This manuscript includes a brief literature
review, overviews of several nonbiomedical (
Graduation Date: May 2003
Special Project: “Writing About Me: A Journaling Program for Tean Parents Using Literary Materials from Women in History”
Anticipated Graduation: Spring 2005
Fields of Interest: Women, Religion and Spirituality
Special Project Topic: “A Pedagogical Approach to Christian Feminism: Western Women’s History through the Lens of Religion”
This project assumes that to tell women’s history is to tell their struggle against a patriarchal interpretation of the Bible which served to justify women’s oppression. It is designed for lay women who are passionate to fully participate in human experience but are unaware of women’s contribution to Western history, are unsure of their role in today’s feminists struggles for equal rights, and are unacquainted with new possibilities to be spiritually whole in a patriarchal system. Women who are actively working and mothering can be better advocates for feminism if they know what has happened before, how it influenced what is happening today and how to critically evaluate the systems which govern our society.
Graduation Date: May 2004
Field of Interest: Domestic Violence
Thesis: “Law Enforcement Response to Domestic Violence: Early Intervention Strategies, Dual Arrest and Multidisciplinary Intervention
Jessica York
Graduation Date: May 2003
Research Interests: Women's History, History of the Police, Women's Studies,
Capital Punishment, Modern Japanese History
Thesis: My thesis was on the last three years of the life of suffragist Inez
Milholland Boissevain.
Anticipated Graduation: Spring 2005
Fields of Interest: Modern European Women’s History, Italian Women’s History, Italian Feminist Theory, Oral History, Immigration/Emigration/Migration.
Thesis: “Una Donna Femminista: Sibilla Aleramo’s First Autobiographical Novel and the Italian Feminist Movement.”
Sibilla Aleramo published her groundbreaking novel in 1906
in