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Celebrating Undergraduate Student Research

This year, the Center’s graduating majors completed exciting Honors Thesis research projects that translate their academic learning into advancing scholarship and addressing real-world challenges. Through this research, these students help us realize the mission of the Center’s academic program to offer students cutting-edge education in gender, sexualities, and women’s studies; the intersections of gender and sexualities with race, class, and other systems of power; and how to transform these systems to promote justice.

Honors Thesis Projects

alvesCatherine Dos Santos Alves

  • Class of ‘20; double major in International Studies and Women’s Studies, minor in
    Arabic Languages and Literatures

  • Project title: Con Ellas, So Goes the Nation: Latina Voters in Florida

  • Committee: Dr. Alyssa Zucker (Chair), Dr. Elizabeth Garcia

chapmanTheresa Chapman

  • Class of ‘20; double major in Women’s Studies and Political Science

  • Project title: Transversing Feminism: Digital Activism and the Responses to Sexual
    Violence and Rape Culture

  • Committee: Dr. Maddy Coy (Chair), Dr. Jillian Hernandez

felipesYislen Felipes

  • Class of ‘20; double major in Psychology and Women’s Studies

  • Project title: Making the Space for One Queer Latina at a Time

  • Committee: Dr. Jillian Hernandez (Chair), Dr. Maddy Coy

poitevienMichaela Poitevien

  • Class of ‘20; major in Women’s Studies, minor in Health Disparities in Society

  • Project title: Navigating Healthcare: The Intersections of Disability and Feminism
    Through the Lens of Perception

  • Committee: Dr. Alyssa Zucker (Chair), Ms. Deborah Hendrix