Theses from 2023
Becoming somebody: Black women’s escrevivências and politics of resistance, Irimara Gomes Peixoto
Ohh He Likes the Girls: A Genealogy of the “Tranny Chaser”, Dennis Hardy
Tight Coils: Black Transfemininity, Transhegemony, and Identity Formation in The U.S. South, Vic J. Kennedy
Revolutionizing Knowledge Production: Transformative Reproductive Justice Activism Through Zine Making, Sierra R. Reyes
Sisters of Conspiracy: A Feminist Analysis of Evangelical, New Age, and Qanon Movements in Contemporary American Politics., Rachael Rollings
(Para)Normalizing the Patriarchy: How Supernatural Pregnancy Storylines Shape Perceptions of Motherhood and Bodily Autonomy for Women in Angel, 1999-2004, Haley L. Strassburger
Theses from 2022
"The Accidental Virgin": An Analysis of Sex, Sexuality, and Reproductive Health in Seventeen Magazine, Leah Berger-Singer
Representation Strategies of Arab LGBQ Individuals in the Years after the Events of the So-called "Arab Spring" in Mainstream Egyptian TV Talk Shows, Deena Bregheith
Stories of Exile: The Construction of Trans Athletes as a Political Category, Jordan Keesler
Antiglobalization Pedagogies: Iranian Women’s Memoir And Feminist Solidarity In The Classroom, Emma Wakeman
Theses from 2021
Praxis of Lust: Alternative Sexual Culture in Personal Narratives of Queer Disabled Sex, Caroline Jackson
The Art of Becoming, Charity J. Jackson
Demonic Grounds, Tempestuous Voices: Breaking Meaning through Sound Performance, Avital Ora Lambert
Personalizing the Political in the Wake of the Isla Vista Murders, Jasmine Montoya
To Be Queer, Black, & Womxn: Self-Definition of Queer Black Girlhood & Womxnhood In Film & TV, Brittany Williams
Theses from 2020
"Mamas Gotta Have A Life Too": Counternarrative Work on the Sex Negative Black Mother Figure, Nia Jasmine Byrd
Remembering and Feeling the Nation: Circulations of Emotions of the Imagined Community in the Contemporary Venezuelan Diaspora, Neidegar Martinez Parra
Ancestral Wisdom and Spiritual Practices for Healing: Decolonizing Feminist Theory and Pedagogy, Justina N. Trim
Towards Negotiating the Ethics of Comedy through Affective Pedagogies of Feminist Humor, Muge Yuce
Theses from 2019
“You Are Not a Woman”: Disposable Mothers And The Clandestine Baby Factories In Nigeria, Irene Agunloye
Buried Histories: A De-Colonial, Feminist View of Land, Space, and U.S. Universities, Laura Brannan
Hybrid – Can That Be My Nickname?: Intersectionality, Afro-Nihilism, And The Otherly Existence Of Queer Black Women, Bryana Jones
The Fat Agenda: An Analysis of Fatphobia, Race, Gender, Sexuality and Black Womanhood, Kara A. Lawrence
The Bisexual To Be Corrected: Interrogating The Threat And Recuperation Of Women's Femme Bisexuality, Hannah McShane
Theses from 2018
Women's Narratives of Their Experiences with the Diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), Jennie E. Lambert
Our Sacrifice Shall Not Be Required: Examining Maternal Ambivalence and Refusal in Black Motherhood, Candice J. Merritt
Bringing Sex To Theory: Sensational Affinity, Pleasure, and Sexual Pedagogy, Andreanna Nattiel
The Enduring Kind: Conceptions Of Freedom For An Unstable Present, Katherine Nelson
Refusals and Re-Creations: Imagining Utopia through Black Lesbian Affect in Modern Dance, Shayla K. Robinson
Theses from 2017
Ratcheting a Way Out of the Respectable: Genealogical Interventions Into Atlanta's Respectability Politics, Sarah Abdelaziz
Picturing Queer Death: Alternative Instantiations of Temporality within Process Art, Jainey Jung Yeon Kim
Talking About Clone Club: A Textual Analysis of Orphan Black, Lisa McGuire
"I Wanna Know Where the Rule Book Is": YouTube as a Site of Counternarratives to Transnormativity, Jordan Forrest Miller
Queering the Nation?: Analyzing the Politics of the LGBT Movement in Ukraine After the Maidan Protests, Lesia Pagulich
Misogynists Have Feelings, Too: An Analysis of Circulating Affect in The Red Pill, Samantha Pinson Wrisley
Theses from 2016
“In Black and White, I’m A Piece of Trash:” Abuse, Depression, and Women's Pathways to Prison, Alexa Adamo Valverde
Bitches Be Like...: Memes as Black Girl Counter and Disidentification Tools, Sesali Bowen
Spirits in the Food: A Pedagogy for Cooking and Healing, Sumita Dutta
Alternative Modernization, Indigeneity, and Affective Capture in Contemporary Bolivia, Nathan E. Frisch
Mapping Transgender Narratives in a Digital Age, Megan Mabry
Planning Obsolescence: Generational Labor, Welcoming Crisis, and Actualizing Immaterial Bonds, Syeda Mahmood
Theses from 2015
(De)Tangled: an Exploration of the Hierarchies in the Natural Hair Community, Schillica Howard
Sexy Ambiguity and Circulating Sexuality: Assemblage, Desire, and Representation in Seba al-Herz's The Others, Kristyn Johnson
Gendered Admission: Transinclusive Admissions Policies at Women's Colleges, Ruby Kett
“You Can’t Pour From An Empty Cup”: Self-Care and Spiritual Activism in Queen Afua’s Sacred Woman, Brandy j. Pettijohn
From Panic to Pity: Circuits and Circulations of the Contemporary Anti-Trafficking Crusade, Juliana Ramirez
From Panic to Pity: Circuits and Circulations of the Contemporary Anti-Trafficking Crusade, Juliana Ramirez-Rodriguez
"Lean In," "Opt Out," and the Journey to Happiness: Brazilian College Women Imagine Freedom, Cecilia Troiano
The Veiled Identity: Hijabistas, Instagram and Branding In The Online Islamic Fashion Industry, Kelsey Waninger
Theses from 2014
The Commercialization Of The Atlanta Pride Festival: “Somebody's Got To Pay For It”, Sarah Beasley
Femininity and Masculinity in Indonesian Popular Music Videos, Hannah Carswell
Cooking Up Authenticity: Latina Celebrities, Cookbooks, and Consumerism, Siobhan Cooke
It Makes Atlanta Feel Like a Real City: Biopolitical Urbanism and Public Art on the Atlanta BeltLine, Sherah Faulkner
Resisting Tropes, Inserting Selves: An Interpretative Biographical Analysis Of The Life Writings Of Mixed Race Women Writers, Erin M. George
The Politics of Impossibility: CeCe McDonald and Trayvon Martin— the Bursting of Black Rage, Taryn Jordan
J-Setting in Public: Black Queer Desires and Worldmaking, Lamont Loyd-Sims
Performing Specters of Imperialism: Affect, Terror, and the Body in Naveed Mir's The Cinco Sanders Show, Andrea Miller
Paying for the Gift of Education: A Critical Discourse Analysis of The Intown Academy of Atlanta, Scott Nesbit
Forever Adolescence: Taylor Swift, Eroticized Innocence, and Performing Normativity, Valerie Pollock
Theses from 2013
Mexican/migrant Mothers and 'Anchor Babies" in Anti-Immigration Discourses: Meanings of Citizenship and Illegality in the United States, Margaret E. Franz
Not Simply Women's Bodybuilding: Gender and the Female Competition Categories, Sheena A. Hunter
A Feminist Action Research Project: Creating a Practical Support Program for the Georgia Reproductive Justice Access Network, Melinda McKew
A Story of One's Own: Creative Narratives about Muslim Women in Turkey, Mirkena Ozer
Listening from the Heart: The Experience of Compassionate Listening in Teen Talking Circle, Carla Wilson
Monsters In My Bed: Accounting For The Popularity Of Young Adult Paranormal Romances, Whitney Young
Theses from 2012
Queer Feelings, Political Potential: Tracing Affect in Performance Spaces, Dylan McCarthy Blackston
Recovering Frances Virginia and the Frances Virginia Tea Room: Transition Era Activism at the Intersections of Womanism, Feminism, and Home Economics, 1920-1962, Mildred H. Coleman
Theses from 2011
To Catch Who? Moral Panics in Contemporary Television Media, Crystal L. Baker
The Women Behind the Moves: A Phenomenological Study of Video Models, Loron Benton
You're Wearing the Orange Shorts? African American Hooters Girls and the All American Girl Next Door, Rachel E. Cook
Restorative Notions: Regaining My Voice, Regaining My Father: A Creative Womanist Approach to Healing from Sexual Abuse, Adenike A. Harris
A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Marketing of Merck & Co.'s Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Gardasil®, Malika A. Redmond
Hooking Up on College Campuses, Elena M. Weiss
Theses from 2010
Where my Girls at?: The Interpellation of Women in Gangsta Hip-Hop, Chanel R. Craft
Paradise Found? Black Gay Men in Atlanta: An Exploration of Community, Tobias L. Spears
Space for Girls: Possibilities of Feminist Agency and Political Engagement on the Internet, Eszter Szucs
Theses from 2009
Power and Surrender: African American Sunni Women and Embodied Agency, Lisa Renae Frazier
Middle School Technology and Media Literacy: An Action Research Case Study, Mekisha Renaé Parks
Searching for the Womanist Within, Carmela L. Pattillo
The Mystery of the Body: Embodiment in the Nancy Drew Mystery Series, Katie Still
Theses from 2008
"So Very," "So Fetch": Constructing Girls on Film in the Era of Girl Power and Girls in Crisis, Mary Larken McCord
Theses from 2007
Working the Margins: Women in the Comic Book Industry, Wesley Chenault
Coloring: An Investigation of Racial Identity Politics within the Black Indian Community, Charlene Jeanette Graham
In Search of Martha Root: An American Baha'i Feminist and Peace Advocate in the Early Twentieth Century, Jiling Yang
Theses from 2006
"Mother May I? Food, Power and Control in Mothers and Daughters", Lisa Joy Borello
A Manifest Cyborg: Laurie Anderson and Technology, Julie Malinda Goolsby
The Negotiation of Gender and Athleticism by Women Athletes, Erica Nicolien Kitchen
Empowering Senior Females by Utilizing Each Female Person's Voice to Create Desired Lifestyle Options, Icydor Aldale Mohabier
Andalusia, Julia Clare Peteet
Spirituality: A Womanist Reading of Amy Tan's "The Bonesetter's Daughter", Xiumei Pu
I'm Not Loud Enough to be Heard: Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls and Feminist Quests for Equity, Community, and Cultural Production, Stacey Lynn Singer
Third Wave Feminist History and the Politics of Being Visible and Being Real, Robbin Hillary VanNewkirk