Dissertations and Theses
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Dissertation and Thesis List
2025
Robin Cremins
From Deviance to Demographic: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Minority
Kayley DeLong
Asylum Afterlives: Disabled and Incarcerated Ghosts, Popular Culture, and the Promise of Abolition
Emoni Harmon (MA)
Feminine Not Feminist: Examining the Contours of Christian #Tradwife Rhetorics
2024
Alkhalifa, Ali (MA)
RuPaul’s Drag Race’s Canceling Culture & the Digital Disposability of its Disrespectable, Non-Homonormative Subjects
Johanek, Tate
"I’m Not A Girl”: Examining Multimodal Constructions of Femme Transmasculinity on TikTok
2023
Cariello, Mia Cai (MA)
Fighting Back: Archives of Self Defense at The Ohio State University
Jackson, Maghan Molloy
Reading Too Much Into It: Excessive Reading, Queer Possibility, and Representation That Matters
Lopez Espinoza, Romina Thaís (MA)
The Radical Resistance of Black Female Pleasure: An Analysis of the Pornographic Short Film Spookyfatbrat’s Solo (2019)
Pagulich, Lesia
Postsocialist Queer Critique: Anti-Roma Violence and the Reconfiguration of the Commons in Ukraine
Ritter, Katherine
Greetings from the Anthropocene: Queer Ecologies of Asbury Park, New Jersey
Van, Ann
Performing the Racialized, Gendered “Other”: White Womanhood, Gender Non-Conformity, and “Transracial” Identities
2022
Beamon, Deja Jontelle
Giving Birth to Blackness: The Black Biracial Daughter's Liberatory Future
Ellison, Joy
Coalitions at the Crossroad: Midwest Transgender History, 1945-2000
Subramanian, Sujatha
Carceral Care? Juvenile justice institutions in India and girls’ protection under Brahmanical patriarchy
2021
Little, Mahaliah A.
Hushed Articulations: Theorizing Representations of Black Women's Post-Violence Sexuality
Womack, Malia Lee
Puerto Rico in Crisis: Intersectionality, Activism, and Transforming Globalized Human Rights from the Grassroots
2020
Buckner, Ray Moishe (MA)
Buddhist Teacher Responses to Sexual Violence: Race, Gender, and Epistemological Violence in American Buddhism
Morrison, Shannon (MA)
Navigating Secret Societies: Black Women in the Commercial Airline Industry
Tobin, Erin
Campy Feminisms: The Feminist Camp Gaze in Independent Film
2019
Branfman, Jonathan
Millennial Jewish Stars: Masculinity, Racial Ambiguity, and Public Allure
Lee, Juwon (MA)
The Globality of the Seoul Queer Culture Festival: Subverting the Neocolonial Queer Narrative
2018
Austin, Sierra
Black Girl Genius: Theorizing Girlhood, Identity and Knowledge Production
Cumpstone, Tess (MA)
Acts of Public Survival: The Role of Artivism in Exposing the Sexist-Ableist Nexus in Campus Rape Culture
Demiri, Lirika (MA)
Stories of Everyday Resistance, Counter-memory, and Regional Solidarity: Oral Histories of Women Activists in Kosova
Rodriguez-Arguelles Riva, Sara
Thickening Borders: Deterrence, Punishment, and Confinement of Refugees at the U.S. Border
Serpico, Jaclyn (MA)
Age, Race, Parity, and Access to Same-Day IUD Insertion at Obstetrician-Gynecology Practices in Ohio: A Mystery Client Study
2017
Fuller, Denise A.
Creating Resistance on the Border: Coalitions and Counternarratives to S.B. 1070
Isoke, Saidah (MA)
“Thank God for Hip-hop”: Black Female Masculinity in Hip-hop Culture
Gabbard, Sonnet D.
Old Ties and New Binds: LGBT Rights, Homonationalisms, Europeanization and Post-War Legacies in Serbia
Sengupta, Anindita
The Desired Baby: Assisted Reproductive Technology, Secrecy, and a Cultural Account of Family Building in India
2016
DasGupta, Debanuj
Racial Regulations and Queer Claims to Livable Lives
Livingston, Katherine G.
Adoptee Access to Original Birth Certificates and the Politics of Birthmotherhood in Ohio, 1963-2014
Swenson, Haley S.
Reproducing Inequality: Cooking, Cleaning, and Caring in the Austerity Age
Tai, Yu-Chen
(W)holistic Feminism: Decolonial Healing in Women of Color Literature
Tu, Angela Wen-Chun (MA)
The Construction of Legal Credibility for Rape Survivors Who Are International Students
2015
Husain, Taneem
Empty Diversity in Muslim America: Religion, Race, and the Politics of U.S. Inclusion
Dean, MacRorie (MA)
Affective Intervention: Beyond Campus Rape Prevention
Nieto, Nicole
Recipes of Recovery and Rebuilding: The Role of Cookbooks in Post-Katrina New Orleans
2014
Chitnis, Varsha Sanjeev
Women’s Lives, Women’s Stories: Examining Caste Through Life History Interviews in Baroda
Day, Allyson L.
The Ability Contract The Ideological, Affective, and Material Negotiations of Women Living with HIV
Kaedbey, Dima
Building Theory Across Struggles: Queer Feminist Thought from Lebanon
Rossie, Amanda
New Media, New Maternities: Representations of Maternal Femininity in Postfeminist Popular Culture
2013
McKee, Kimberly Devon
The Transnational Adoption Industrial Complex: An Analysis of Nation, Citizenship, and the Korean Diaspora
Roy, Raili
”Jagoron: Awakening” to Gender in Non Governmental Organizations in Contemporary Bengal
2012
Genetin, Victoria A.
Shifting Toward A Spiritualized Feminist Pedagogy: Gloria E. Anzaldúa And Thich Nhat Hanh in Dialogue
Mkhize, Gabisile Promise
African Women: An Examination of Collective Organizing Among Grassroots Women in Post Apartheid South Africa
Popielinski, Lea Marie
Noncorporeal Embodiment and Gendered Virtual Identity
2011
Brown, Adriane J.
Distinctly Digital: Subjectivity and Recognition in Teenage Girls' Online Self-Presentations
Kock, Stacia L.
Towards Inclusion: Expanding And Challenging Citizenship Through Intersectional Antipoverty Activism
Linder, Kathryn E.
Narratives of Violence, Myths of Youth: American Youth Identity in Fictional Narratives of School Shootings
2010
Brennan, Susan Catherine
Cinematic Adaptation and the Problem of Citizenship: Mapping Women’s Diasporic Authorship in a Post-9/11 World
Cochran, Shannon M.
Corporeal (isms): Race, Gender, and Corpulence Performativity in Visual and Narrative Cultures
Holmes, Christina M.
Chicana Environmentalisms: Deterritorialization as a Practice of Decolonization
Mitchell, Anne Michelle
Civil Rights Subjectivities and African American Women’s Autobiographies: The Life-Writings of Daisy Bates, Melba Patillo Beals, and Anne Moody
2009
Isbister, Dong
The “Sent-Down Body” Remembers: Contemporary Chinese Immigrant Women’s Visual and Literary Narratives
Smith, Sarah Anne
Love, Sex, and Disability: The Ethics and Politics of Care in Intimate Relationships
2008
Johnson, Lakesia Denise
The Iconography of the Black Female Revolutionary and New Narratives of Justice
Schrock, Richelle D.
Cultural Divides, Cultural Transitions: The Role of Gendered and Racialized Narratives of Alienation in the Lives of Somali Muslim Refugees in Columbus, Ohio