Events from 2026 2026
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Senior Presentations , Student Presenters
Events from 2024 2024
"Fearfully and Wonderfully Made": The Reconciliation of the LGBTQIA+ Community to American Christianity , Madalyn Sailors '24
"Fearfully and Wonderfully Made": The Reconciliation of the LGBTQIA+ Community to American Christianity , Madalyn G. Sailors '24
Love vs Duty?: Resisting the Idealized Woman and Subverting The Perennial Choice for Women in Opera , Lindsay Uhrich '24
Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023
“Inheritor” and “Originator”: Jane Austen’s Feminist Voice as Bridge Between Mary Wollstonecraft and Virginia Woolf , Stephanie Hyta '23
Power, Pleasure, and Privilege: defining DePauw’s hookup culture and its mental health implications , Reanna Stiehler '23
Power, Pleasure, and Privilege: defining DePauw’s hookup culture and its mental health implications , Reanna Stiehler '23
Resilience in Girlhood: An Analysis of the Social Determinants of Anxiety Disorders for Adolescent Girls , Maggie Sullivan '23
Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022
How Love Ought to Be: The Power of Sapphic Representation in Animated Children’s Cartoons , Olivia Storz '22
Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021
USWNT and Twitter: Resistance and Activism in the Equal Pay Campaign , Mia Manney 21
Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020
The Second Wave in Secondary Schools: Textbooks and Standards on the Feminist Movement , Melissa Browning 20
The Narrative of Courtship: Literary and Biological Constructions and their Impact on Women , Drew Harris 20
Going Beyond Abstinence Only: A Bioethical Analysis on Educating Adolescents on Birth Control and Other Contraceptives , Sam McCarty 20
Housework for Revolutionaries: Between Theory and Experience , Megha Summer Pappachen 20
Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019
The Progression of the LGBTQ+ Rights Movement in the United States: The Human Rights Campaign , Tabitha Adams 19
The Socialization Process of Masculinity, and Its Manifestation at DePauw University: How Race, Media, and Gender Contribute to the Malleability of Masculinity , Gabriella Hagedorn 19
Hoot Magazine and the Sexual Revolution at DePauw , Sydney Majka
Hollywood's Return to the Home: Taming the Post-World War II Career Woman , Kate Marburger 19
Generations of Fertility: A Bioethical and Evolutionary Analysis , Kat Panos 19
Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018
Manning Up at DePauw: Performing Fraternal Masculinity on a Liberal Arts Campus , Rachel Higson 18
Interpreting Black Women’s Narratives about the Foster Care System as Counterstorytelling , Shanae Nelson 18
Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017
Light Shines Earnest , a full length play by William James Burke and Divergent Drag Aesthetics — Interrogating the Reaches of Gender and Gendered Imagery in Drag Performance , William James Burke 17
The Model Minority Myths: Racism And Sexism Against Asian-American Community , Yingda Guo 17
The Comfort Women System: Sexual Slavery during World War II , Christine Kim 17
Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016
Pseudonymous Disguises: Are Pen Names An Escape From the Gender Bias in Publishing? , Nettie Finn 16
Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015
The Impact of Arranged Marital Customs on Women's Autonomy in Rural India , Tazree Kadam 15
Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013
Defining Humanity: Gender and Equality in the French Revolution , Erin Sheek '13






