Women’s Studies Faculty member, Emerging Scholar Faculty mentor
Women’s Studies Major,
Emerging Scholar
We are excited to announce women’s studies scholar, Katherine Lynch, was selected alongside Dr. Hilary Coulson for an Emerging Scholar Faculty-Student Research Award. The Emerging Scholars Program from the UF Center for Undergraduate Research was founded to pair full-time undergraduate students with UF faculty to conduct research. This mentorship opportunity allows students a space to explore research ideas and encourages students to build relationships with faculty who are willing to advise them through the research, writing, and publishing process.
Katherine is currently working on a research project about the gendered implications of suicide. The project, entitled: “An Examination of Women and Death: How Suicide Can Act as a Form of Power in Oppressed Women” explores the phenomenon of “revenge suicide” through a cross-cultural analysis that investigates how systemic violence and oppression against women can leave them with limited options for justice. This project surveys popular media depictions of suicide and posits suicide as a global phenomenon with gendered implications that are rarely explored. Their research aims to shed light on the gendered discourse surrounding suicide and investigate the interpretations of violence against self.
Lynch and Coulson devised a research design this spring and plan to work through the 2022-2023 academic year to prepare an article for publication.
“…the moments of mutual care and collaboration that I have seen are particularly heartening and give me hope.”
-Dr. Bonnie Moradi
Students Display Projects
Students in the Spring 2022 class, WST 3015: Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Women’s Studies, are displaying their projects in 308 Ustler Hall throughout the summer. The display showcases projects from the class, led by their instructor Dr. Joanna Neville. The students were asked to demonstrate their knowledge from the semester in whatever form they felt called to use. The projects include poems, paintings, photography, and clothing from a wide variety of topic areas such as birth control, constructions of gender, activism, medicalization of bodies, inequality, and more. Students also submitted a paper analyzing the knowledge produced and presented each project to the class.
This story appears in the Spring 2022 issue of the Gender, Sexualities, & Women’s Studies Newsletter. Read more from the issue.