Graduated WS Graduate Certificate Program Students Final WS 898 Papers, and updated information if available
Fall 2002 or Spring 2003
Zoe Peterson
As of August 2005, Zoe just completed her clinical internship at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center, which was the final step for her PhD in Psychology. She has accepted a postdoctoral fellowship at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. This position involves conducting research on topics related to sexuality and gender and providing psychotherapy to treat various sexual problems.
In 2007...Zoe Peterson accepted a job as an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, teaching gender/sex-related courses.
Carey Scheerer
This Fall 2005, Carey is currently in her first year of the graduate program in Anthropology at the University of Colorado, in the subdiscipline of Cultural Anthropology. Carey's final paper in Women's Studies 898 with Professor Ann Cudd will be posted soon to this site.
Sharon Sullivan
Sharon is currently an Assistant Professor at Washburn University, teaching Theatre and Women's Studies.
Jennifer Thibodeaux
Jennifer currently is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, and teaches courses in Medieval, Ancient, and Early Modern European History, and also courses on Gender and Women's History. Jennifer has an article titled "Man of the Church or Man of the Village?: Gender and the Parish Clergy in Medieval Normandy" that is forthcoming from Gender and History Journal.
Heather Van Mullem
Heather is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Health and Kinesiology at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, ID.
Fall 2003 or Spring 2004
Roksana Alavi
This Fall 2005, Roksana is a full-time one year lecturer in the Philosophy and History Department at the University of Texas-Pan American.
Carly Hayden Foster
Carly is currently a A.B.D. Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at the University of Kansas. Her concentrations are in American Politics, Public Policy, and Women's Studies. This Fall 2005, Carly is assisting Dr. Barbara Ballard in the instruction of a new Women's Studies course "WS 396: Studies in: Women and the Legislative Process."
Carly has accepted an offer for a tenure track job in Women and Politics at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (a suburb of St. Louis), in 2006.
Dawn Gale
Shana Hughes
Shana is a Presidential Fellow at the University of South Florida in Tampa. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Applied Anthropology and an MPH with a specialization in Global Health. For her dissertation topic Shana is working on culturally appropriate, gender-sensitive AIDS prevention in Latin America. She is also interested in how gender and culture affect the experience of migrant farmworkers in the United States.
Tamela Ice
Tamela is currently writing her dissertation in Philosophy under the direction of Dr. Ann Cudd. Her dissertation is entitled "The Paradox of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Sexual Politics: Voluntary Agreement, Psychological Oppression, and the Dehumanization of Woman." Tamela is interested in teaching Philosophy and/or Women's Studies, emphasizing a cross-cultural study of the history of women, and continued research in the social/political relevance of psychological oppression.
Chelsea D. Schlievert
Chelsea currently is employed at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, MO. She is also involved in a number of volunteer projects with Van Go Mobile Arts, GaDuGi Sfe Center, and the Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence. Chelsea's goal is to pursue a career in Arts Administration and Outreach. She is also in the process of developing articles from her Master's work for publication.
Updated information from Chelsea
Schlievert, April, 2007:
I'm no longer a student at KU; I received my MA in American Studies and
my
Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies in May 2004. I now work with
the
Photography Collection at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas
City,
MO.
Fall 2004 or Spring 2005
Elizabeth M. Lagaron
Elizabeth is currently working on her Ph.D. in English at the University
of Kansas. She is looking forward to passing her comps in the Spring
2006 and begin working on her dissertation, which will focus on Jack
Kerouac's vision of the "Fellaheen."
Jimmie Manning
Susan Reneau
Susan is currently collecting data for her dissertation, which addresses unwanted consensual sexual activity. For her dissertation, Susan is evaluating the function of this behavior for heterosexual dating couples.
I defended my dissertation ("The Function of Unwanted Consensual Sexual Activity in Heterosexual Dating Relationships") in June 2006 and gave a presentation of the data at the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS) annual conference in Las Vegas in November 2006. I was accepted as a clinical psychology intern (akin to a medical school resident) at the VA Medical Center in Birmingham, Alabama last February. I've been here at the VA since last August and will finish the internship this August. I'm getting married (yay!) September 1 of this year to Marshall Rathmell, and we plan to live permanently in Birmingham after the wedding. We'll return from our honeymoon in mid-September, and I've been offered a position as a clinical psychologist at the VA to begin at that time. (March 29, 2007)
Fall 2005 or Spring 2006
Jane Irungu
Jane is currently working with the Office of International Programs, KU, as Coordinator of the Global Awareness Program.
Jane is a Doctoral Student in Educational Policy and Leadership, School of Education, KU.
Jennifer Balke
Currently Jennifer is a Ph.D. candidate in English at KU preparing for her comprehensive exam. Her main areas of scholarship are performativity of gender and spirituality in medieval English literature, popular and cinematic 20th and 21st-Century medievalisms, and queer theory.
Updated information from Jennifer Balke, April, 2007:
This Spring 07 semester I passed my Ph.D. comprehensive exam in English
with honors on March 14. In addition, in April I will be presenting as
part of the Hall Center Before 1500 seminar entitled "Before 1500 Goes
'Pop'" (focusing on classical and medieval representations in popular
culture). The title of my presentation is "The Anchoress."
Anne Marie Morgan
(updated information on Anne Morgan)
Anne Morgan has received a dissertation fellowship from KU for Fall 2007/Spring 2008.
