WGS Alumni Are Leaders in Their Fields

 

Andrew Anastasia '06 minor

• Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at Frostburg State University, Maryland.

• Continues to present his scholarship at the National Women's Studies Association conferences.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brooke Barnhart '15 minor

• Completed her first year in the Gender and Women's Studies Master's Program at University of Wisconsin - Madison.

• Served as a teaching assistant for both Introduction to LGBTQ Studies and the Introduction to WGS course.

 

 

 

Tomas Bolivar '14 minor

• • Admissions Counselor at  Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.He uses his WGS knowledge every day to craft diversity initiatives for a new recruitment protocol.
• • Recently accepted into the Women and Gender Studies Master’s Program at Loyola. 

 

 

 

 

Erin Frost '13 certificate

• Erin's dissertation, " Theorizing and Apparent Feminism in Technical Communication" was awarded the 2015 CCCC Outstanding Dissertation Award in Technical Communication.

 

 

 

 

 Jenna Goldsmith '08 minor, '10 certificate

• Awarded both the University of Kentucky Women's Club Endowed Fellowship and the Lexington Herald-Leader Fellowship.

• Joins the faculty in the School of Writing, Literature, and Film at Oregon State University this fall.

 

 

 

 

Malia Haanio '15 minor

• Recently returned from China where she taught kindergarten and 1st grade English language. 

• Accepted a position in a domestic violence and sexual assault prevention organization in Denver, Colorado.

 

 

 

 

Danny Matthews '11 minor

• Assistant Director of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Resource Center within the Office of Inclusion and Intercultural Relations at University of Illinois. 

 

 

 

 

 

Matt Rillie '15 minor

• Works for DreamBikes, a non-profit organization that strategically places used bicycle stores in traditionally marginalized communities based in Madison, Wisconsin.

• "The WGS program has been the rock of my education.  My experience has helped me view every situation with such critical frameworks."

 

 

 

 Flourice Richardson '15 certificate

• Has had a major publication in Communicating Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in Technical Communication by editors Dr. Miriam F. Williams and Dr. Octavio Pimental.

• Completed doctorate in English Studies at ISU.

• Served as an instrumental leader in the creation of Umoja: Celebration of Black Graduates on ISU's campus.

 

 

 

Fabiola Rosiles '16 minor

• Currently pursuing her master's degree in women's and gender studies at DePaul University in Chicago. 

• Serves as graduate assistant with Take Back the Halls (TBTH), a teen dating violence prevention and community activism program. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Erica Thurman '09 minor

• Writes and manages grants and contracts with the National Partnership for Women and Families, in Washington, D.C.

• Has had six book chapters accepted for publication in a three-book series on race and American television.

• Blogs at Life Behind the Veil.

 

 

 

Katelyn Wood '07 minor

• Began a tenure-track position in theater history and performance studies at the University of Virginia.

• Working on book manuscript about the politics of U.S. Black feminist comedic performance in 20th and 21st century.