Grad Showcase for Gender Works-in-Progress
Event
When: Apr 17, 2026 - 09:00am - Apr 17, 2026 - 04:30pm
Where: History Common Room, Mesa Vista 1104
The Department of History, the History Graduate Student Association, and the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program (WGSS) is hosting the first Grad Showcase for Gender Works-in-Progress
On Friday, April 17 join us to celebrate the amazing interdisciplinary, gendered research and creative works being created by graduate students across our campus!
Friday, April 17, 2026: @ History Commons (Room 1104 MVH – in the History Department)
Please click here for a program or the details are below.
9-9:30: Refreshments, Greetings
9:30-11am: Panel: Gendering Voices of Resistance and Resilience: Unraveling Women's Stories of Bodily Autonomy and Reproductive Health
Hadas Segal (History): “Dead Men Don’t Rape”: Delilah Bon’s rap as a Battle Cry in the Arena of Women’s Histories
Selah Cantwell (History): Gentle Hands and Latex Gloves: Doctors, Parteras, and Childbirth in Early to Mid-Twentieth Century Northern New Mexico
Yixin Zhang (Sociology): Obligation or Choice? Intersectionality and Reproductive Autonomy among Gynecologic Cancer Survivors
11:15-12:45: Poster Session: Challenging Historical Narratives and Empowering Historical Voices
(will be on display the entire day)
Marisa Pickett (History): Black Art against Misogynoir
Gina Benavidez (History): The Forgotten Contributors: American Women Medical Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War.
Jessica Pereira (History): “Look at my skin color; I am not part of your family”: Political Agency of a Domestic Workers’ Union in Rio de Janeiro from the 1970s to the 1980s.
1:00-2:30pm: Mixed Media Show: Medieval to Modern: Visualizing Gender and Identity Through Performances of Time and Fashion
Katie Despeaux (History): Digital Embodiments: Creation of a Medieval Pregnancy Source Database
Jonathan Seyfried (History): Molt Cara Companyona: Gender Nonconformity and Medieval Monarch
Zj Johnson (Communication and Journalism): Gender Glitch: Undressing Trans* Expression and Joy Through Fashion
Chris Armstrong (Sociology): Queer in Public. Queer in Collapse
2:45-4:15pm: Panel: From Personal Loss to Political Power: Gender Consciousness and Empowered Narratives in 20th Century and Contemporary Activism
Teresa Rodriguez Sotelo (History): Between the Personal and the Political: Women’s Mobilization through the Unión Nacional de Mujeres
Rebecca Anderson (Education): Reifying Queer Consciousness
Maryam Tadayon (English): Re-signifying Grief: Maternal Mourning as Gendered Resistance in Contemporary Iran
4:15-4:30: Final Reflections- Sarah Davis-Secord (History) and Katherine Massoth (History)
