Graduate Students

	Addy Bareiss Amanda.Bareiss@asu.edu Addy Bareiss earned her B.A. in history with a minor in special education-deaf studies at the University of Arizona. She got her M.B.A. from Kansas State University. She also finished graduate certificate course in women’s studies, and was the first M.B.A. student ever to get a graduate certificate in women’s studies from KSU. Addy is reluctant to separate her academic interests in women and gender studies from her activism. She avers that her interest in feminist theory informs her community activism while her passion for women's issues and human rights drives the desire to study and understand the academic field. Her focus area in the doctoral program is visual and narrative culture.
	Debjani Chakravarty Debjani.Chakravarty@asu.edu Debjani Chakravarty worked as a journalist, an instructional designer and a social worker in India. She earned her B.Com. in the University of Calcutta. She received her M.A. and M.Phil. in sociology from the University of Pune. Her M.Phil. thesis is titled “Uniform Civil Code: Dilemma of a Derivative Democracy.” Her research interests include feminist epistemology, feminist jurisprudence and gender and new media. She also worked as a research associate in a University of Sussex, U.K.-sponsored project titled: “A Comparative Sociological Assessment of Two Faith-based Organizations in Pune, India.” She wants her research to be informed by a comparative socio-historical perspective that critically assesses the processes of globalization and multiple modernities. Her focus area in the Ph.D. program is visual and narrative culture.
	Joey Eschrich Joey.Eschrich@asu.edu Joey earned his B.A. in film and media studies from Arizona State University in 2008. He has conducted research on ethics in the entertainment industry, emergent digital content creation and distribution technologies, and the discursive functions of fatherhood, violence, and patriotism in contemporary action films. His focus area in the doctoral program is Visual and Narrative Culture. Joey's research interests include the representation of men and the construction of masculinity in popular culture texts, especially mainstream film and popular music.
	Elena Frank Elena.Frank@asu.edu Elena earned her undergraduate degree from New York University with a double-major in Psychology and Gender and Sexuality Studies, and a minor in Russian and Slavic Studies. She has worked for Playgirl Magazine, and most recently was employed as a Case Manager at a non-profit organization in Sacramento, California where she worked with low-income single mothers to help them gain access to subsidized childcare. For her research she is interested in gaining an understanding of the social processes and other influences that contribute in the development of a woman’s sexual identity, attitudes, and behavior. Her area of focus within the PhD program is Health, Science, and Technology.
	Mary Jatau Mary.Jatau@asu.edu Mary Jatau is a 2004 Ford Foundation International Fellow. She did her undergraduate work in history from University of Jos, Plateau State Nigeria. She holds an M.A. in women's studies from San Francisco State University where she worked with Prof. MA Jaimes Guerrero. Her master's thesis is titled "We Own Our Bodies: Analyzing the Reproductive Health and Rights of Nigerian Women." She has years of experience in the corporate and non-govenrmental sectors in Nigeria advocating the empowerment of the girl-child and women. She has interned with The Safe Motherhood Project of Women's Global Health Imperative, engaging in biomedical data analysis. She wants to do a comparative, cross national research on reproductive healthcare in Nigeria, South Africa and the United States. Mary is currently a research associate working with Prof. Stanlie James, director of the Department African and African American Studies in ASU. Her research interests include: women's health and body politics, transnational feminisms, critical race theory, postcolonial theory, globalization, health and human rights. Her focus area in the doctoral program is health, science and technology.
	Tiffany Lamoreaux Tiffany.Lamoreaux@asu.edu Tiffany Lamoreaux frequented the women and gender studies department in the 1980s, as a little girl accompanying her mother, an alumna of the department. She holds a B.A. in anthropology and women’s studies from Arizona State University. Her focus area is health, science and technology, within which she wants to work on sexuality and reproductive health. She also wants to understand the processes of consumption of sex work in specialized services such as massage parlors. If she could manage time from looking after her three children and being a gender studies researcher and educator, Tiffany would like to be a sci-fi writer as well.
	Corie Nixon Corie.Nixon@asu.edu Corie earned her BA in Women’s Studies and English at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA in 2007. Following graduation, she embarked on a study abroad course to Capetown, South Africa, where she began a poetry project based on interviews with South African women about their experiences during apartheid. Her research interests include language and gender, representations of women in popular culture, and women in post-conflict zones. Corie is also passionate about the mental health field. Prior to coming to ASU, she worked as a Community Support Coordinator for adults with developmental disabilities. Corie’s focus area in the doctoral program is Visual and Narrative Culture.
	Alicia Woodbury Alicia.Woodbury@asu.edu Alicia Woodbury completed her undergraduate work in sociology at the Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan. She worked with a women’s career development non-profit organization in Phoenix. Later, she served in Arizona State University as academic counselor in the W. P. Carey School of Business. While she incorporated a hands-on, interventionist approach in her roles as a guide and counselor, she decided to come back to graduate school to understand the discursive ties between theory and practice, activism and academia in gender studies. Having trained under sociologists, philosophers and historians, Alicia believes that the value of an interdisciplinary approach in research cannot be overemphasized, and gender studies truly allows one to engage with interdisciplinary methodology. Her focus area in the Ph.D. program is justice, social change and sustainability.
	Charlie Zhang YZhan140@asu.edu Charlie has a B.A in English (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics) and an M.A. in Communication from Fudan University, China. His research interests span the gender theories, masculinity studies, cultural studies, post-structuralism and orientalism. Charlie is also interested in issues of identity construction and representation—specifically of “eastern” females and males in the popular cultures generated and embodied by magazines, TV and the Internet. His focus area in the doctoral program is visual and narrative culture.