Research Development Grant Recipients
| Recipient | Research Project | Year Awarded |
|---|---|---|
| Meggie Mapes (She/Her) University of Kansas |
“’I thought violence was normal’: Qualitative investigations into batterer intervention programming
|
2024 |
| Dani R. Soibelman (They/Them) University of Colorado Boulder |
An Otherwise Archive: Perceivability as a Trans Alternating Practice in Neoliberal Academia
|
2024 |
| Heewon Kim (She/Her) Arizona State University |
Medical knowledge as technology of denial: The emerging forms of legal violence to discredit sexual violence survivors' testimonies about trauma
|
2024 |
| Noor Ghazal Aswad (She/Her) University of Alabama |
Beyond Labels: On Being a “Woman of Color” in the United States
|
2024 |
| Taylor Mack |
"Does This Look Okay? Examining Self-Presentation Expectations for Corporate Women using Communication Theory of Identity
|
2023 |
| Jacqueline N. Gunning |
"Exploring (Dis)Enfranchising Healthcare Experiences of African American, Latina/o/x, and American Indian/Alaskan Native Women with Autoimmune Disease
|
2023 |
| Jaclyn H. Nolan |
Willie McGee and the Legacy of Legal Lynching
|
2023 |
| Satarupa Dasgupta |
The impact of mobility and visibility on stigmatization and support services access and utilization among non-brothel-based transient sex workers in India
|
2023 |
| Kirara Nagatsuka |
“Half-Breed” Women. Intersectionality of Hafu and Biracial females in Japan and the U.S.
|
2022 |
| Yin Yang |
Postpositivist Approach to Gender Inequality in Feminist Media and Communication Studies: A 10-Year Review
|
2022 |
| Meredith Neville-Shepard |
Sporting Sexism: An Analysis of Arguments About Regulating Women’s Athletic Attire
|
2022 |
| Raka Shome |
Cleansing the Nation: Hindu Nationalism and the Gender Politics of the Clean India Campaign
|
2022 |
| Brandi Lawless and Yea-Wen Chen |
"(Re)Connecting with Immigrant Women Faculty During Double Pandemics of COVID-19 and Anti-Black Racism"
|
2021 |
| Tamanika Ferguson |
"Voices from the Inside: Incarcerated Women Speak"
|
2021 |
| Lauren E. Peters |
"Health Care and Re-Traumatization: An Examination of Uncertainty Management and Social Support for Survivors of Sexual Assault During Routine Pelvic Exams"
|
2021 |
| Teigha Mae VanHester |
"Cultivating Defiant Sovereignty: Queering the Assemblage of Fat, Black Feminist Ecological Imagination as Liberatory Practice"
|
2021 |
| Shardé M. Davis | "Talking with my Sistahs: Testing the Role of Stress during HIV-Related Discussions among Black Women and HIV Risk and Prevention Outcomes” | 2020 |
| Ashley Cassandra Joi Daniels | "Unlocking the Power of the Sister Vote: Examining the Motivations of Black Women Supporting Black Women Candidates” | 2020 |
| Lisa Roth | "Rhetorical Analysis of 1980s Lesbian Public Discourse: Reconstituting Lesbian Identity, Activism, and Community during the Rise of the New Right” | 2020 |
| Margarida Costa da Silva Catela Teixeira | "Survivors’ Perspectives on Anti-Trafficking Communication and Social Change” | 2020 |
| Noorie Baig | "Understanding South Asian 'Activist' Narratives on the Model Minority Myth: An Oral History Project" | 2019 |
| Olivia Wright | "'We Asked for Life!': American Women's Prison Zines as Sites of Art and Protest, 1930-2019" | 2019 |
| Amber Johnson | "Afrofuturism as Radical Feminist Beginning: A Transfuturity Project" | 2019 |
| Adriande Gonzalez | "Promotoras and the Texas Colonias: A Study of Occupational Identity, Organizing, and Community Building" | 2019 |
| Milkie Vu & Ghenet Besera | "Refugee Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health: Understanding Experiences with Accessing and Utilizing Services" | 2018 |
| Jasmine Austin | "Rhetorical Absence of Black Women's Identities During Realistic Organizational Previews" | 2018 |
| Kallia Wright | "Narratives about Endometriosis Experiences in Jamaica" | 2018 |
| Woori Han | "Cultural and Affective Production of Queer Women in the Korea Queer Culture Festival" | 2017 |
| Patricia Davis | "Lifting as We Climb: Black Clubwomen" | 2017 |
| Larissa Brian | "Illicit Objects: The Politics of Sex Toys under the Rule of Alabama's Anti-Obscenity Enforcement Act" | 2017 |
| Lisa Flores | "Deportable Laborers: Rhetorical Tropes in the Making of Mexican Disposability" | 2017 |
| Desiree D. Rowe and Michaela Frischherz | "Women's Orgasm and the Happiness Imperative" | 2017 |
| Megan McFarlane | "Exploring Servicewomen's Pregnancy Experiences: Communicative Construction of Embodiment" | 2016 |
| Shadee Abdi | "Considering LGBT Iranian-American Women and their Narratives of Identity and Family Negotiation" | 2016 |
| Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz | "Homeland Maternity: Risk, Security, and the New Reproductive Regime" | 2016 |
| Kristina Bogos | "Female Migrant Workers in Qatar" | 2016 |
| Emily Deering Crosby | "Feminine Twang: Rhetorical Strategies of Country Music's Legendary Second Wave Women" | 2015 |
| Kate Siegfried | "Feminist Cultural Production & Historicizing the Third Wave: Learning From the Rhetoric of the Riot Grrrl Movement" | 2015 |
| Carly S. Woods | "The Problem with Purple Penguins: Gender Trouble at a Site of 'Ordinary Democracy'" | 2015 |
| Bethany Johnson and Margaret M. Quinlan | "Practitioner-Patient Communication: Women's Experiences with Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility" | 2015 |
| Jenna N. Hanchey | "A Postcolonial-Feminist Communicative Approach to International Aid Relationships in Sub-Saharan Africa" | 2015 |
| Shardé M. Davis | "Investigating Collective Communication Patterns in Black Women Friend Circles: A Test of The Strong Black Woman Theoretical Framework" | 2015 |
| Karrin Vasby Anderson | "Sexualizing Citizenship" | 2015 |
| Kathleen M. de Onis | "'Es una lucha doble': Articulating Environmentalism and Nationalism in Puerto Rico's Archipelago" | 2014 |
| Brooke Erin Duffy | “Labor of Love: Gender and Creative Work in the Age of Social Media” | 2014 |
| Kendra Dyanne Rivera | “This is Just Life: Pregnant Mexican-American Women Negotiate Boundaries and Borders between Work, Life, and Cultures” | 2014 |
| Erin L. McCutcheon | “Reading Between the Lines: Women, Art and Identity in Post– 1968 Mexico City” | 2014 |
| Ariadne A. Gonzalez | “Tenemos que salir adelante: An examination of Mexican immigrant domestic workers’ occupational identity on the TexasMexico border” | 2014 |
| Laura Christiansen | "'Could You Not Do that Please?': Representations of Women and Womanhood by Drag Performance in the Shit Girls Say Genre" | 2013 |
| Fatima Zahrae Chrifi Alaoui | "The Uprising of Arab Women in North Africa" | 2013 |
| Suzanne Pullen & Roberta Cheverette | "The Abortion Monologues: (Re)Embodying the Stories Silenced by Dominant Discourses of Reproduction" | 2013 |
| Raka Shome | "White Femininity and National Identity" | 2013 |
| Eve Ng |
"The Transnational Contexts of LGBT Digital Media Production and Consumption" |
2012 |
| Anndrea Ellison | "Defending Womanhood in America: The Formation of Women as Political Actors in the 1980s" | 2012 |
| Marion Meyers | "African American Women in the News: Gender, Race and Class in Journalism" | 2012 |
| Jillian Baez | "La Familia Latina Unida: Undocumented Mothers Using Social Media for Immigration Reform" | 2012 |
| Melissa Carrion | "The Personal is Technical: Mothers' Decision-Making about Vaccination" | 2012 |
| Rebecca Murphy-Keith | "Language and Identity Reformation: Women Transcending Child Sexual Abuse” | 2012 |
| Christine Gallagher Kearney |
"Through a Feminist Lens: Language, Power and Identity in Catalan Nationalism”
|
2011
|
| Vandy Ramadurai |
“Social Capital, Food Insecurity, and Gender: A Subaltern Feminist Project in an Indian Slum”
|
2011 |
| Suzanne Enck-Wanzer | “Living Their Stories: Interrogating Cycles of Victimization, Incarceration, and Healing” | 2011 |
| Alyssa Samek | "Queering Citizenship, Crafting Identity, and Envisioning Liberation at the Intersections: A Rhetorical Analysis of 1970s Lesbian Feminist Public Discourse" | 2010 |
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Kathleen de Onis
|
"In Search of Reproductive Justice for Latinas and their Immigrant Sisters"
|
2010
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Sara McKinnon
|
"A Feminist Investigation of Messages of Gender and Sexuality in Western European Immigration Contexts" |
2010
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| Sara Hayden & Lynn O'Brien Hallstein | "Contemplating Maternity in the Era of Choice: Explorations into Discourses of Reproduction" | 2009 |
| Ellen W. Gorsevski | "Dangerous Women: The Rhetoric of the Women Nobel Peace Laureates" | 2009 |
| Alina Haliliuc | "Totalitarian Memories: Contemporary Discursive Limits to Politicizing Romanian Women's Experiences" | 2009 |
| Colleen W. Colaner & Christine E. Rittenour | "Mother/Daughter Communication of Interwoven Values: Transmissions of Mother, Feminist, and Generativity Identities" | 2009 |
| Susan Szmania | "Social Support Networks Among Iraqi Refugee Women Living in Sweden" | 2008 |
| Maegan Parker | "From the Front Porch to the Platform: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Rhetoric of the Black Freedom Movement." | 2008 |
