WGSS is thrilled to welcome four new graduate students to the department this year:
Lorna Closeil is a PhD student in the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her research focuses on practices of Black feminist abolitionists within digital spaces through an afro-futurist lens.
Thaís Lopez Espinoza is a master’s student in WGSS. Her work involves studying patterns of romantic and sexual relationships that normalize and conceal heterosexual intimate violence in Peru.
Madeleine McClung is pursuing her master’s with the department. Her research focuses on the physical effects of and discourses perpetuated by religious sexual purity movements and cultures.
Jessica Tjiu is a PhD student in the WGSS department. Her research focuses on historicizing human trafficking and sex trafficking discourses without erasing the invisible effects of institutionalized racism, slavery and state-sanctioned violence on the existing systematic structures and institutions.