WGSE Featured Alumni
Here is a glimpse at what some of our program alumni are doing now as leaders in their field, and ongoing dedication to our institutional mission of advancing social, economic, and environmental justice.
Sara Harrier
Comparative Women’s and Gender Studies in Europe 2002
University of Missouri
Sara is the Associate Director for Program Development at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where she is responsible for managing policy, and programs within the violence prevention topic areas of suicide, sexual violence, child maltreatment, and intimate partner violence. She began working at the Centers for Disease Control in 2007 as a Public Health Analyst, after serving as a Legislative Fellow to U.S. Congresswomen Roybal-Allard and with the Women’s Research & Education Institute. As a student at the University of Missouri, Sara was coordinator of the Rape Education Office, and worked as a Residential Victim Advocate at The Shelter nonprofit. While she attended AEA’s Comparative Women’s and Gender Studies in Europe program, Sara’s independent research project was a comparative analysis of domestic violence prevention policies in the Netherlands, Germany, Poland and the U.K. Sara is also a registered Yoga instructor for Yoga Alliance.
Zachary Strassburger
Comparative Women’s and Gender Studies in Europe 2004
Wesleyan University
Scholarly Activity Highlights of Program Alumni
Jovanna Hernandez
WGSE 2011
Swarthmore College
Jovanna presented her final WGSE research project at the Geis Student Research on Women Conference 2012. Her paper was entitled: “A Bubbling Cauldron: The Roles and Status of Women in Poland and Germany within the Context of Nationalism, the Nation-State, Ultra Nationalist Movements, Multiculturalism, and the European Union.” Read more about Jovanna’s paper and presentation in our news story.
Mariam Barcus
WGSE 2010
Grinnell College
Miriam presented her final WGSE independent research project paper to the Iowa Sociological Association Conference in 2011. She entitled her paper “Lots of Mothers and a Father too? Parental Leave Policies and Gendered Representations of Care in Poland, Germany, and the Netherlands.”
Yasin Fairley
WGSE 2010
Bates College
Yasin published an article, published an article, “Dis(member)ing the Black Male Dancer’s Body: Masculinity, Membership and Movement in a Cross-Cultural Dance Context,” in Potentia Magazine in Spring 2012. His article was based on his WGSE independent research project.
