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Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies
In its 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
2024-2025
- Terra Murphy Sloane, (Honors)
Jennifer Putzi + Leisa Meyer , Claire McKinney , Jay Watkins
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, "" (Honors)
Elizabeth Losh + Francis Tanglao Aguas, Jennifer Putzi - John Mackey, "" (Honors)
Claire McKinney + Victoria Castillo, Hannah Rosen - Willa Moffatt, "" (Honors)
Claire McKinney + Victoria Castillo, Jackson Sasser - Cristina Sherer, "" (Honors)
Rachel Varra and Victoria Castillo + Leslie Cochrane, Jennifer Putzi
2019-2020
- Cody Mills, "" (Honors)
Claire McKinney + Victoria Castillo, Sara Mattavelli
2018-19
- No Honors students this year
2017-18
- No Honors students this year
2016-17
- No Honors students this year
2015-16
- Jordan Taffet, "" (Honors)
Victoria Castillo + Bettina Judd, Christy Burns, Suzanne Raitt
2014-15
- No Honors students this year
2013-14
- Elizabeth Scott, (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, "" (Highest Honors)
Jennifer Putzi + Nancy Gray, Charles McGovern
2009-10
- Andrea Brown, (Highest Honors)
Leisa Meyer + Kimberley Phillips, Nancy Gray - Meghan Hottel, (High Honors)
Elizabeth Currans + Nancy Gray, P.J. Brendese - Emily Rafal, (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