The Center for Gender in Global Context is delighted to announce our 2025-26 Graduate Dissertation Fellowship awardees. Generous funding provided by MSU’s Graduate School has allowed us to offer dissertation writing and research fellowships in both Women's and Gender Studies and Gender, Justice and Environmental Change. Read below to learn more about this year's recipients!
Yuan Xiong, "Survey validation and family profile identification: Understanding family dynamics and their impact on Chinese transgender and gender-diverse individuals," Social Work
Ariana K. Costales-Del Toro, "Queer Reformations of Christianity in the Caribbean," English
Estela Gonçalves de Souza, "From slavery to freedom: Black lives and the study of Black masculinities in pre and post abolitionist Juiz de Fora, Brazil (1880-1910)," History
David Marchionni, "Loud Equals Life: In/Visible Communities’ HIV/AIDS Activism & Resistance to Medicine in Greater New York, 1980–2010," History
Vanessa Weller, "Gendered Performance and Innovation in the Parisian Avant-Garde, 1896-1945," Romance & Classical Studies
Kailey Henderson, "Transing Representations of Amazons in Early Modern Spanish Theatre," Romance & Classical Studies
Xueshi Wang, "Timing Motherhood: How Paid Family Leave Reshapes Birth Decisions in the U.S.," Economics
Sarah Potts, "Sex and Spirituality: The Queer Fantastic in Modernist Women’s Writing," English
Priyanka Jayakodi, "Fault Lines of Knowledge, Connections, and Care: Living with Chronic Kidney Disease of Uncertain Etiology in Sri Lanka," Anthropology
Angie Sanchez, "The Nooni Project: A Breastfeeding Initiative as a Movement Toward Reconciliation & Healing for Indigenous Families in Michigan," Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences
Rafael Lembi, "The process of transformation: exploring justice, resilience and co-production dimensions of energy transitions in the Brazilian Amazon," Community Sustainability
Yeyoung Lee, "Three Essays on Agency in Agriculture in Developing Countries: Time Use, Control over Income, and Household Welfare," Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics
Zou Yun, "Revolutionizing Gender, Nature, and Thoughts: The Gendered Environmental Transformational Projects and The Making of China in The Mao Era," History
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