Student Publications

The UB Gender Institute supports student research through the Undergraduate Scholarship, the Ph.D. Dissertation Fellowship, the Isabel S. Marcus International Research Fellowship, Travel Awards to the annual Duke Feminist Theory Workshop, and by facilitating the Dissertation Workshop.
For information on these scholarships, please see our Student Opportunities page.

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Recent UB English PhD graduate Jocelyn E. Marshall's dissertation project won the 2024 First Book Award from the , which provides an advanced publication contract. NWSA announced the news over social media accounts on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. For this project, she was also awarded the 2024-2025 American Association of University Women’s , which was recently added to the UB record of fellowships.

Jocelyn also had two article publications, one edited journal issue, and two exhibition catalogs completed before her dissertation defense:

  •  (2023)
  • ” (2023)
  •  (2023)
  •  (2023) 
  •  (2020-2021)
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Gabriela Cordoba Vivas, Isabel S. Marcus Fellowship Recipient and PhD Candidate in Media Studies, was recently published in the Journal of Lesbian Studies. Gabriela writes in the acknowledgements, "I want to thank Rian Ciela Hammond for their generous and generative comments and feedback, the Gender Institute at University at Buffalo for supporting my research and Paige Sarlin and the department of Media Study at the University at Buffalo for guiding and supporting my work." The article, "The “Free Speech Bus”: Making “gender ideology” appear through media and performance" can be found .

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Naila Sahar, GGSS 2022 AAUW International Post-Doctoral Fellow

in edited book Transcultural Humanities in South Asia Critical Essays on Literature and Culture. Routledge, 2022. 

in Journal of International Women's Studies: Vol. 24: Iss. 2.

in Religions 2022, 13(11), 1023.

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Jocelyn E. Marshall, PhD Candidate,  English Department at UB, in her new co-edited book ,  brings visibility to perpetuated violence and silence through a range of genres, including poetry, syllabi, and critical reflections.

Jocelyn will also be guest editing the Spring 2023 issues of Rejoinder - the issue will be on queer spiritual becoming.

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Gabriella Nassif, doctoral candidate, Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies, 2019 recipient of the Isabel Marcus International Research Fellowship and Duke Feminist Theory Workshop travel grant.

Gabriella Nassif, Editor. . Civil Society Review, Issue-5, November 2021.

Gabriella Nassif. "Resistance, Gender, and Identity Politics: A Conversation with Rasha Younes." Civil Society Review. Issue-5, November, 2021. 106-111.