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2007
Kimberly Johnson
"Exploring the Multi-Dimensional Dynamics of Terrorism: Cultural, Political, and Gender Implications of the Female Suicide Bomber Phenomenon"

Angela Johnson-Fisher
"Afristocracy: Free Women of Color and the Politics of Race, Class, and Culture"

Melissa Flewelling
"Desire and Intimacy: Focusing on the Demand(s) Created in International Online Dating Agencies"

Laura Knudson
"Cindy Sheehan: Mother of a Soldier, Mother of a Movement"

Harry McMaster
"'Whitely' Individualism and Choice in 'Post,' 'Conservative,' and 'Third-Wave' Feminism"

Nery Morales
"Moving Beyond the Limitations of Chicana Feminist Theory"

Courtney O'Dell
"Mothers with Multiple Sclerosis: Voice, Identity, and Empowerment"

Mary Jane Philpy
"Sexual Binaries: An Examination of Mixed Messages and Teenage Female Sexuality in Education and Media"

2006
Charles Frederick Cook, IV
"Creating and Maintaining a Women's Studies Oral History Program"

Kami L. Fletcher
"The Niagara Movement: The Black Protest Reborn"

Janice A. Moran
"How Whiteness Affects Ableism: The Expansion of Whiteness Beyond Issues of Race and Class"

Erin L. Rider
"Promoting Solidarity at College Parties: Women's Ability to Resist Sexual Assault"

Jo-Ann Juchniewicz Stankus
"Feminism, Capitalism, and 'Conscious Capitalism': Creating and Teaching a New Educational Paradigm for Twenty-First Century Women's Studies and Business Students"

2005
Meena Anbunathan
"AIDSism: Theorizing the Politics of Domination Centering HIV/AIDS"

Tushabe Mercy Caroline
"The Autonomy of Ugandan Women's Organizations: Its Significance for Creating and Maintaining a Dependable Democracy"

Janice E. Fowler
"Contemplating a Black Feminist Thought: Can African-American Women Reinvent the Social Club Movement?"

Victoria A. Genetin
" Exploring a Woman-Centered Approach to Pregnancy and Birthing Through the Framework of Nepantla"

Sarah Hogue
"Shifting LGBT Epistemologies: An Exercise in Gloria Anzaldúa El Mundo Zurdo and Conocimento"

Lea C. Ivy
"Deconstructing, Reclaiming, and Transforming the Discourse of Fetal Personhood: A Pro-Choice Feminist Imperative"

Shilpashri Karbhari
"The Intersectionality of Domestic Violence and Anzaldúa's Theory of 'New Tribalism'"

Kavitha Koshy
"Nepantlera-Activism in the Transnational Moment:Unraveling Cross-Cultural (Mis) Understandings through a New Theorizing of Activism in Transnational Feminist Spaces"

Jill Malolepszy-Boeke
"'Now Let Us Shift' Towards a 'Spiritual-Imaginal-Political' Vision of Eating Disorders: An Application of Gloria E. Anzaldúa's ´Seven-Step Theory of Conocimiento"

Mildred Masimira
"The Infected and the Affected: Married Women, Culture, and HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe"

Patricia Nolan
"From Binary to Tertiary: Achieving a New Tertiary Embodiment of Wo/Man/Machine Through the Lens of Philosophy and Science Fiction"

Dorotha M. Ocker
"Small But Salty Cinderella of the Armed Forces: The United States Coast Guard, 1976-1982"

Robin Orlowski
"HB 569: Placing Texas Women in Pain"

Juli Ann-Winner Saxton
"Give Us This Day Our Heavenly Mother: Understanding the Patriarchal Concealment of the Mormon Heavenly Mother"

2004
Lisa A. Cauley
"The 'State' of Education: Creating Effective Special Education Programs"

Andri Marlies Foiles
"On the Backs of Our Sisters: Gloria E. Anzaldúa and Unionizing Global Workers - A Guideline for Social Change"

Susan Dolce Lynch
"Elective Cesarean Births: Forté or Failure of Feminism?"

Carrie McMaster
"Kindred Spirit: A Place for Gloria E. Anzaldúa in Feminist Disability Studies"

Soni Thapa Oli
"Domestic Violence Among Nepalese Women in the U.S."

Emily C. Rivendell
"Don't Call It 'Date' Rape: The Drug Rape Epidemic"

Susan Noel Townzen
"Reconceptualizing Death: An Ecofeminist Critique of Professional U.S. Funerary Practices"

Doreen Sandra Watson
"Representations of Black Women in Modern-Day Situation Comedies: Trends and Implications "

2003
Jennifer Brockman
"Tendiendo La Abertura Y Recreando Identidades: Feminist Theorizing Through the Poetic Language of Gloria Anzaldúa"

2002
Patricia A. Stukes
"Resurrecting Womanist Theory from the Lyrics of India Arie, Lauren Hill, and Me'shell Ndegeocello: The Performance and Pedagogy of Race and Gender Politics"

2001
Karen Kapusta-Pofahl
"Ženy a Aktivismus: Czech Women and Gendered Activism"

Kari Kesler
"From the Homefront: A Qualitative Study of The Women of a Mexican Community"

2000
Stephanie G. Rodriguez
"Spacing the Extraordinary: Dis/Ability and Homeplace in Toni Morrison's Sula"


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Director: Claire Sahlin, Ph.D.
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Denton, Texas 76204-5557
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