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Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies Student Scholarship

Advanced research opportunities are available to students with their capstone project, where they work closely with a faculty member and present their research at the end of the year at the Holy Cross Academic Conference. The Capstone Experience may be a culminating research paper, artistic project, or performance.

Papers from 2022 2022

For better or for worse? Impacts of Marriage Equality Policy on LGBTQ+ Mental Health, Mia Gajda

Submissions from 2018 2018

A Justice and Equity Common Area Requirement: Where Jesuit and Feminist Pedagogies Intersect, Kathleen Bowles

One Team: A Historical Analysis of Inequalities between Men's and Women's Professional Soccer, Allyson O. Braciska

Gender, Sexuality, and Eating Disorders, Haley Leishman

Submissions from 2017 2017

Maternal Provisioning of Eggs of the Starlet Sea Anemone, Nematostella Vectensis: Selection Pressures Favoring the Evolution of Coloniality, Asmani Adhav

How Do Race, Age, and Sexual Orientation Impact the Effects of Sexual Objectification?, Ambra Dhima

STEM Education: Comparing College of the Holy Cross to the United States, Julia A. Jesielowski

Extending Title IX to Transgender Students, Raha Maalin

It’s an “Ad World”: the Advertising Industry and its Interaction with Culture and Gender, Elizabeth Pearce

Fashion & Body Positivity: The Impact of Body Positivity within the Fashion Blogosphere, Alicia Perry

Becoming Queer in the 20 th Century: An Analysis of Print Literature and Changing Queer Identity, Keith Plummer

Adolescent Identity Struggle and the Role of Adolescent Romantic Relationships: A Case Study on “Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood”, Ana-Sofia Reyes

Beauty and the Beast: Pageants and Ethno-National Representation in the Dominican Republic, Kary Suazo

Barbie As Cultural Compass: Embodiment, Representation, and Resistance Surrounding the World’s Most Iconized Doll, Hannah Tulinski

Submissions from 2016 2016

Defining Assault: How Holy Cross Women Identify and Make Sense of Sexually Assaultive Experiences, Caitlin McGuire