Comps, honors papers, and prize-winning works of the Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies program are featured here. Prior to fall 2020, the program was known as the Women's and Gender Studies program. All works have been self-submitted by the student authors. Descriptive information about each work is available to search or browse. Access to the full text of the works is limited to current Carleton affiliates with faculty permission. Learn more about how to submit your work and how to request access to the full text of works.
Submissions from 2024
T'airra Champliss, Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies (GWSS) 2024, Cultivating Healing Within: Spirituality, Self-Love, and Personal Empowerment for Black Women, Femmes, and Non-Binary Folks
Arthur Onwumere, Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies (GWSS) 2024, Believe, Advocate and Uplift The Black Maternal Health Crisis in Minnesota’s Hennepin and Ramsey Counties
Submissions from 2023
Lillian Berets, Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies (GWSS) 2023, Sharing Our Roots: A Radical Economy of Community Carework
Anna Halladay, Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies (GWSS) 2023, Negotiation of Sexist Norms in the Music of the Lunachicks: A Musicological Approach
Hannah Klein, Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies (GWSS) 2023, Uncensored Trans Desire: Overt Sexuality and Trans Identities in Contemporary Music
Mikhalina Solakhava, Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies (GWSS) 2023, Wives and Witches of the Thrice-Tenth Kingdom: Translation Politics and Gender Discourses in Belarusian Fairytales
Submissions from 2022
Lauren Carothers-Liske, Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies (GWSS) 2022, Media Representations of Transwomen: White Masculinity and Pretty Privilege
Ashley Mei, Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies (GWSS) 2022, Encrypted: A Study on Reactions to Anti-Asian Sentiment
Submissions from 2020
Emma Gautier, Women's and Gender Studies (WGST) 2020, Nowness: A Space for the Unfolding of Queer Politics
Submissions from 2019
Evie Odden, Women's and Gender Studies (WGST) 2019, Politicizing Pedagogy: Student Anti-Rape Activism at Carleton College, 1986–1992
Submissions from 2018
Naomi River Price-Lazarus, Women's and Gender Studies (WGST) 2018, Resisting Precarity: How "At-Risk" Youth Embody, Perform, and Contest their Ascribed Identities
Submissions from 2017
Emily Morissa Perlman, Women's and Gender Studies (WGST) 2017, I Am the Flag of Islam: Identity Negotiation Among Somali Muslim Women in Minnesota
Submissions from 2016
Clare Zearfoss Hiyama, Women's and Gender Studies (WGST) 2016, Kinship Across the Color Line: conceptions of Race, Racial Identity, and Racial Socialization in Interracial Mother-Daughter Relationships
Submissions from 2015
Rachel Clark, Women's and Gender Studies (WGST) 2015, Feminist Theories & Dance Histories In Collective Search of Female Subjectivity
Victoria Dianne Sanchez, Women's and Gender Studies (WGST) 2015, Sex, Respectability, and Candy: The New Limits of Normativity in Queer El Paso, Texas
Submissions from 2014
Olivia Marie Fantini, Women's and Gender Studies (WGST) 2014, Miley Cyrus has taught me that people think acting overtly sexual incites disrespect and violence Examining the Failings of High School Sexual Violence Prevention Education in the United States
Sarah Louise Robinson, Women's and Gender Studies (WGST) 2014, Ambivalent Embodiment: Body Image Conflict, Resistance, and Cultivation at Carleton College
Malia Wagner, Women's and Gender Studies (WGST) 2014, The Food Served to Us Was Very Familiar: Food, Gender, and Identity in Manzanar Incarceration Camp
Submissions from 2012
Kendall Jennifer Bills, Women's and Gender Studies (WGST) 2012, Living the Theory: Locating the Experiences of Non-profit Workers Striving for Accountability to Youth
Amelia Marie Llorens, Women's and Gender Studies (WGST) 2012, Beyond Bodies: Responding to Disability and Difference
Submissions from 2011
Cat Marie Ward, Women's and Gender Studies (WGST) 2011, Sex and Alcohol on Carleton's Campus
Submissions from 2009
Temara Holt, Women's and Gender Studies (WGST) 2009, Learning, performing, and embodying respectability in an all girls African American Catholic school
