2025 WGSS Graduate Research Symposium

Join the WGSS community for this year's WGSS Graduate Students Capstone Symposium! This event is open to undergraduates and graduate students alike! Designed to stimulate learning and to celebrate our graduating MA students, the WGSS Graduate Students Capstone Symposium showcases the varying research topics of WGSS MA students that reflect a range of methods and the intellectual depth of this field. 

This year's event will feature three panels: Exploring the American Present,  Feminist Fabulations, and Stories from the Borderlands.

Panel 1 - Exploring the American Present will feature Ashleigh O’Brien who will present research on "Letters of Mourning - A Collection of Deaths for the Feminist Scholars" and Dallas Hardee who will present research on "Protecting Choice in Conservative America: Lessons From 2024 Abortion Ballot Measures."

Panel 2 - Feminist Fabulations will feature Samantha Solomon who will present research on "Holding Space, Building Strength: The Empathic Path to Resilience", Andrew Tissel who will present research on "Maddie, or speculating trans/adoptee alterlife", and Mai Manion who will present research on "Fabulation as Freedom: Exploring the Generative Potentiality of Trans*figuration as Method". 

Panel 3 -  Stories from the Borderlands. will feature Annabelle Manzo who will present research on "Bordered Bodies: An Emerging Weaponization of Water at the U.S. Southern Border" and Marla Guerra who will present research on "Within the Walls of the ‘Land of the Free’: Institutional Violence and the Abuse of Detained Migrant Women".