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Joseph Boateng

Graduate Assistant, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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Talisa Paige Effinger

Student Associate - Law Summer Program, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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Raquel De Los Angeles Garbanzo Nunez

Graduate Assistant, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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Marcela Ozorio Goncalves

Graduate Assistant, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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Nev Ryan Hommel

Graduate Assistant, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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Isha Merchant

Graduate Assistant, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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Mariya Ounissi

Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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Fatemeh Rezaei

Graduate Assistant, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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Raised in Iran in an Afghan Hazara family, Fatemeh has lived between Tehran, Dortmund, and now Cincinnati. She completed her BA in Photography at the University of Tehran and later worked as a research fellow with Academy in Exile at TU Dortmund University before relocating to the United States in 2024. She is currently pursuing dual Master’s degrees in Fine Arts (MFA) and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Cincinnati, where her research-based practice focuses on archives, displacement, and the lives of Hazara and Afghan women across Afghanistan, Iran, and the wider diaspora.
More about her work can be found on her website.
 
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Aratrika Sengupta

Graduate Assistant, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Ara (he/they) is a multidisciplinary scholar working at the intersections of gender, disability and histories of capitalism. They research the manner in which consumer capitalism culturally produces governable personhood. 
He is interested in postructuralist, marxist and new materialisms traditions of thought to theorize the nation state as an oppressive structure. Continuing his thought of everything is connected, he also researches on mapping as a critical archiving impulse, premodern walking histories, histories of gender in colonial contexts and politics of archivization of cultural objects. 
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Brittany S Theodore

Graduate Assistant, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Brittany earned a BA in Sociology with a minor in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) from the University of Cincinnati. Now a first-year student in the dual PhD/MA program, they are pursuing a PhD in Sociology and an MA in WGSS. Their research, rooted in feminist and Marxist frameworks, engages questions of power and authority, examining how these forces are produced, maintained, resisted, and reimagined. They are particularly interested in the body, including necropolitics, gender, sex and sexuality, and reproductive justice, and seek to investigate how social institutions govern bodies, life, and mortality. Brittany also explores the cultural and political functions of art, imagery, and social movements, exploring how they operate as both tools for social change and social control.
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