• WHICH TEAM DO YOU PLAY FOR?: VISIBILITY AND QUEERING IN BRAZILIAN SOCCER 

  Snyder, Cara Knaub (2019)

  Brazilians designate their country “O País de Futebol” (The Country of Football) with a singular vigor. But from its earliest years, the sport has been defined along masculine lines; women in Brazil were actually banned ...

• LEAVING “HOME” IN SEARCH OF THE “HOMELAND”: TRANSNATIONAL ENCOUNTERS AMONG ADOPTED KOREAN RETURNEES, ADOPTIVE MOTHERS, AND BIRTH MOTHERS 

  Lee, Sina (2019)

  Leaving “Home” in Search of the “Homeland”: Transnational Encounters among Adopted Korean Returnees, Adoptive Mothers, and Birth Mothers considers the relationships within adoption triads—returned adoptees, birth mothers, ...

• Stylin' BlaQueer Feminisms: The Politics of Queer Black Women's Fashion Activism 

  Blake, Donnesha Alexandra (2018)

  Stylin’ BlaQueer Feminisms contributes to conversations about the political function of fashion by exploring the ways that queer Black women define activism with fashion and how their practices advance Black feminism. In ...

• Cooking with Mama Kim: The Legacy of Korean Women (Re)Defining Cultural Authenticity 

  Sprague, Justin (2018)

  What is considered “authentically Korean,” how those concepts are imagined, and in what ways authenticity is constructed through the vehicles of food and Korean motherhood is the core focus of this dissertation project. ...

• SUFIMINISM: THE SEXUAL, THE SPIRITUAL, THE SELF 

  Haq, Sara (2018)

  My dissertation addresses the question: what does an exploration of sexual politics within Islam look like if the mandate of respectability is refused? It explores the possibilities of Sufi thought as an epistemological ...

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