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SURF Mentoring

Potential projects/topics: The proposed project is reviewing and expanding the existing resource guide at Fondren for Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. This work entails exploring research resources, tools, and methods used within the fields of women, gender, and sexuality studies.

Potential skills gained: After the project, the fellow will have: deepened their academic research skills; become more familiar with a wide array of resources on the study of women, gender, and sexuality; considered the politics of knowledge production and dissemination.

Required qualifications: This project is open to students of any major who are interested in the study of women, gender, and sexuality. No prior research experience or skills are required.

Direct mentor: Faculty/P.I. (Lora Wildenthal), Other Research Associates (Abby Stovall - Fondren Library; Brian Riedel - CSWGS)


Student Project Titles List

The Road Less Traveled: Exploring the Untold Narratives of Freedman's Town

Research Areas

Research and teaching interests include: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer social movements; these movements' complex relationships to feminism and feminist studies; oral and archival history preservation; community engaged research; and the concepts of place and collective memory.