Students
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Victoria Adams Ph.D. Student Email: victoriaa@email.arizona.edu Victoria is a doctoral candidate in Gender and Women's Studies. Her work is focused on violence against women, narratives, and meaning in language. She holds an Masters of Public Health from University of Michigan. [more information] |
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Harrison Apple Ph.D. Candidate Email: happle@email.arizona.edu Harrison Apple is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department Gender and Women's Studies with a minor in Information. They are the founding co-director of the Pittsburgh Queer History Project, an oral history and media preservation project focused on... |
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Alex Barksdale Ph.D. Student Email: barksdale@email.arizona.edu Alex Barksdale is a second year PhD student in Gender and Women's Studies. They graduated from Rice University in 2011 with a B.A. in the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and a B.A. in Anthropology. Their research interests include queer/trans studies, LGBTQ historiography, community-based... |
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Scott Bradford Ph.D. Student Email: sbradford@email.arizona.edu TEL: none FAX: none Office: TBA [more information] |
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Luna Chung Ph.D. Student Email: lunachung@email.arizona.edu Luna Chung is a PhD Student in Gender and Women’s Studies. Luna graduated with a B.A. in Women’s Studies and B.S. in Psychology from the University of Georgia. As a former refugee, her research focuses on preserving the oral history of Vietnamese refugees. Her research interests include:... |
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Mel Ferrara Email: mferrara@email.arizona.edu Mel Ferrara is a PhD candidate in Gender and Women’s Studies with a minor in Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory. They received their BA in Gender and Sexuality Studies and Philosophy/Political Thought from Muhlenberg College in 2015 and their MA in Gender and Women’s Studies from... |
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Adrian Flores Ph.D. Student Email: adrianf@email.arizona.edu Office: Adrián I. P-Flores is a doctoral candidate in Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona. His work focuses on the transformation of suicide between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to examine its intersection with histories and geographies of colonialism and slavery. He is... |
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Katherine Freeman Ph.D. Candidate Email: freemank@email.arizona.edu Bio Katherine E. Freeman is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Arizona. Katherine was raised in the rural U.S. Southwest and is dedicated to the production of scholarship that addresses contemporary socioeconomic... |
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Giramata I. PhD. Student Email: giramata@email.arizona.edu Giramata is a PhD student in Gender and Women Studies from Kigali, Rwanda. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Development Economics and Policy as well as Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies from DePauw University. Her research interests are gender based violence and intimate partner... |
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Alex Karaman PhD Candidate Email: akaraman@email.arizona.edu TEL: use email Office: GWS 105B Alex Karaman is originally from Los Angeles and moved to Long Beach for his undergraduate degree in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Political Science. Returning to school in Arizona, he has focused his fieldwork within Israel-Palestine on the development of Palestinian hip-hop culture... |
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Liz Kinnamon PhD Candidate Email: kinnamon@email.arizona.edu Office: Gender & Women's Studies building, 925 N. Tyndall Ave., Room 212 Liz Kinnamon works at the intersection of Marxist feminism, attention studies, and critical theory. Their dissertation tracks the concept of "attention" since the mid-twentieth century from a materialist perspective, analyzing the degree to which "presence" is precluded or facilitated by... |
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Hannah Kyle M.A./JD Email: hmkyle417@email.arizona.edu Hannah Kyle is a dual degree M.A./J.D. student in her third year. Hannah is from Detroit and graduated with a B.A. in English from Cleveland State University in 2015. Her primary research interests include reproductive justice, intimate partner violence, immigration, and biopolitics. [more information] |
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Elena L'Annunziata Monge Ph.D. Student Email: lannunziata@email.arizona.edu Elena is a first year Ph.D student whose research interests include postcolonial, Chicana, and U.S. Third World feminisms, immigration, social movements, food sovereignty and food justice. Previously Elena received her M.A. in an interdisciplinary program titled Environment and Community from... |
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Gloria Negrete-Lopez Ph.D Student Email: gnegretelopez@email.arizona.edu Gloria Negrete-Lopez is an incoming PhD student in Gender and Women's Studies. In 2012, she graduated from the Women and Gender Studies Master's Program in San Francisco State University (SFSU), where she wrote her Master's Thesis titled "A Ti Querida Hija: Prisons, Deportation and the Act of... |
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Juan Ochoa Ph.D. Candidate Email: ochoaj1@email.arizona.edu Office: Gender & Women's Studies Juan Ochoa is a PhD Candidate working on his dissertation, "¡Quiero que me llames joto!/Call me joto!: Gay Chicano Men (Re)Imagining the Brown Body, that explores gay Chicano/Latino men's subject formation through cultural production. His dissertation conceptualizes a joteria analytics... |
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Justin Ostrowski Email: jostrowski@email.arizona.edu [more information] |
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Sav Schlauderaff Ph.D. Student Email: sschlauderaff@email.arizona.edu Sav Schlauderaff (they/them) is a queer, trans, disabled PhD student in Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona. Their research in critical disability studies centers chronic illnesses, (embodied/felt) memory, pain, trauma and self care/community care for the bodymindspirit. Sav... |
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Susana Sepulveda Ph.D. Student Email: sepulveda@email.arizona.edu Susana Sepulveda is a 5th year PhD Student in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, and is minoring in Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory at the University of Arizona. Her dissertation project focuses on Chicana punk subcultures and the intersections of race, ethnicity,... |
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Kelly Sharron PhD Student Email: kellycsharron@email.arizona.edu TEL: none FAX: none Office: TBA Kelly Sharron is a PhD student in Gender and Women's Studies. Kelly graduated with a BA in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies and Political Science from the University of Minnesota in December 2011. Her primary research focus is queer and affective political resistance to State and capitalist... |
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Ruben Zecena Ph.D. Student Email: rubenz@email.arizona.edu Ruben Zecena is a PhD candidate in the Gender & Women’s Studies department at the University of Arizona. Born in El Salvador, he is on a constant search for "home" and specializes in queer migration studies. His work appears or is forthcoming in WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, ... |
