Students
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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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Katherine Freeman Former Doctoral Student Email: katefreeman123@gmail.com Bio Katherine E. Freeman recieved her PhD from the Department of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Arizona in 2020. Raised in the rural U.S. Southwest, Katherine 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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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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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 a Doctoral Candidate in Gender and Women’s Studies with a Minor in Mexican-American Studies at the University of Arizona. Her developing dissertation focuses on the role of abolitionist cultural work in disrupting narratives of (im)migrant criminality. Her research... |
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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, M.A. (they/them) is a queer, trans, disabled Ph.D. candidate in Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona. Their work engages disability studies, disability memoir & life writing, trauma studies, and health communication to analyze the ways disabled and... |
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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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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, ... |
