Undergraduate students engaged in mentored research through many mechanisms, including WST4970 Honors Thesis, McNair Scholars Program, University Scholars Program, and Mellon Grant funded projects. Here are just a handful of the projects our faculty sponsored this year.
REY ARCENAS
Women’s Studies major Rey Arcenas presents his thesis “Resistance at the ‘Head of the Snake’: Trans Young Adult Activist Responses to Florida Anti-LGBTQ+ Legislation” conducted with Dr. Broad.
REN KATZ
Women’s Studies major Ren Katz presents their thesis “Resilient, Fatigued, Liberated: Floridan Young Adult Transgender Activists Resist Anti-LGBTQ Legislation” conducted with Dr. Broad.
GARRETT JOHNSON
Women’s Studies major Garrett Johnson presents his thesis “I Feel Like Halloween is Queer Season’: Queer Ritual, Horror, and the Power of Recreational Fear” conducted with Dr. Neville.
ANA SMALLING
Women’s Studies major Ana Smalling presents her thesis “Dancing Outside the Lines: A Study of Identity Expression in Ballet Spaces” conducted with Dr. Neville.
KARLA CUBERO
Women’s Studies minor Karla Cubero presents a poster on the research she conducted on PCOS and Latina women with Dr. Zucker via the University Scholars Program.
EMILY BUTLER
Women’s Studies major Emily Butler’s thesis was called “The Invisible Burden of Womanhood: How Gendered Expectations of Labor Perpetuate Autonomous Disease,” conducted with Dr. Zucker.
ANN-MARIE IANNONE
Women’s Studies major Ann-Marie Iannone’s thesis was called “Dear Florida, Inclusive Sex Ed is Not Bad: A Review of Sex Education and Florida Policies, ” conducted with Dr. Wiley.