Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
In its Honors Program the Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies program awards Honors, High Honors, or Highest Honors to student research projects. The projects listed below have been defended successfully, and a copy of the thesis deposited in Swem Library.
Key:
- Student, "Thesis" (Honors level)
Committee Chair + Other Committee Members
2023-2024
- No Honors students this year
2022-2023
- No Honors students this year
2021-2022
- No Honors students this year
2020-2021
- Xuanye He, "The Trend of Male Cross-dressing in the Chinese Video Game Community" (Honors)
Elizabeth Losh + Francis Tanglao Aguas, Jennifer Putzi - John Mackey, "Engendering Trans Inclusion in Interscholastic and Intercollegiate Athletics: A Critical Analysis of Sex and Gender in Sports, Title IX Protections post-Bostock, and Intersectional Methods of Antidiscrimination Law" (Honors)
Claire McKinney + Victoria Castillo, Hannah Rosen - Willa Moffatt, "Interrogating Injustice: Carceral Feminism, Brock Turner, and the Dilemmas of Seeking Accountability for Sexual Violence in Our Prison Nation" (Honors)
Claire McKinney + Victoria Castillo, Jackson Sasser - Cristina Sherer, "Inclusive Language Use and Instruction in Spanish: A Community-Informed Approach to Implementing Linguistic Changes in Education" (Honors)
Rachel Varra and Victoria Castillo + Leslie Cochrane, Jennifer Putzi
2019-2020
- Cody Mills, "Italian Feminism and the Actualization of Libertà in the 1970s: The Role of Women in the Reproductive Landscape" (Honors)
Claire McKinney + Victoria Castillo, Sara Mattavelli
2016-17
- No Honors students this year
2015-16
- Jordan Taffet, "Black Genocide, Reproductive Control, and the Crisis Pregnancy Center Movement: A Conspiracy Narrative of Racial Hegemonic Order" (Honors)
Victoria Castillo + Bettina Judd, Christy Burns, Suzanne Raitt
2014-15
- No Honors students this year
2013-14
- Elizabeth Scott, "From the Barracks to the Frat House: Hegemonic Masculinity and the Normalization, Promotion and Repication of Rape Culture in Male Dominated Spaces - A Comparison of the United States Military and the American College Fraternity" (Highest Honors)
Leisa Meyer + Laurie Wolf, Victoria Castillo
2012-13
- No Honors students this year
2011-12
- No Honors students this year
2010-11
- Elizabeth Miller, "Changing Marriage, Learning Marriage: Marriage and Higher Education" (Highest Honors)
Jennifer Putzi + Nancy Gray, Charles McGovern
2009-10
- Andrea Brown, "The Best that You Can Be: Conflicting Messages of Liberation and Oppression in Indian Cosmopolitan Magazine" (Highest Honors)
Leisa Meyer + Kimberley Phillips, Nancy Gray - Meghan Hottel, "Sex is Still Politics: An Analysis of Race, Gender Performance, and Political Leaning in the Thomas-Hill and Clinton-Lewinsky Sex Scandals" (High Honors)
Elizabeth Currans + Nancy Gray, P.J. Brendese - Emily Rafal, "Legislating Sex: The Influence of Public Opinion on Sex Education Policy in Virginia" (High Honors)
Leisa Meyer + Nancy Gray, C. Lawrence Evans
2008-09
- No Honors Students this year
2007-08
- Morgan Berman, "Beyond Pro Versus Anti: A Transnational Feminist Critique of Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Female Genital Cutting" (High Honors)
Margot Weiss + Gul Ozygin, Brad Weiss - Patricia Nelson, "Rewriting Myth: New Interpretations of La Malinche, La Llorona, and Le Virgen de Guadalupe in Chicana Feminist Literature" (Highest Honors)
John Gamber + Colleen Kennedy, Leisa Meyer
2006-07
- Olivia Williams, "The Beloved Other: Deviance, Feminism, and the Female Artist in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights" (Highest Honors)
Nancy Gray + Deborah Morse and Simon Joyce (co-advisors), Terry Meyers, Leisa Meyer