• 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 ...

• FEMINISTS TRANSFORMING THEIR WORLDS: A COLLECTIVE ORAL-HISTORY OF SALVADORAN PROTAGONISTS 

  Patt, Yh (2018)

  Working from the premise that we cannot understand how feminism can transform societies without examining it as a multi-leveled project, this dissertation explores how a group of Salvadoran feminists were introduced to ...

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