2016 Gender Conference Program
2016 Gender Studies Conference Program
Introduction, 9:00-9:15 am Auditorium
Session A, 9:15-10:15 am
Session B, 10:30-11:30 am
Session C, 11:45 am-12:45 pm
Lunch, 12:45-1:30 pm, Coffee House
Session D, 1:30-2:30 pm
Session E, 2:45-3:45 pm
Session F, 4:00-5:00 pm
Introduction, 9:00-9:15 am, Auditorium
Dean DoVeanna Fulton, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Session A, 9:15-10:15 am
White Oak
Problems of Masculinity in Grimm's Fairy Tales
Moderator: Dr. Tammis Thomas (English, UHD)
Helen Martinez (UHD): "The Boy Who Went Forth and
Became a Man"
Lionel Vela (UHD): "The Two Princes"
Thomas Canny (UHD): "Rapunzel: A New Fairy Tale"
Sahra Harvin (UHD): "A Real Man"
Buffalo Bayou
Selling Bodies: Image, Media, Medicine, and Commerce
Moderator: Professor Arthur Vallejo (Psychology, UHD)
Morgan Milburn (UHD) & Jeremy Scott (UHD): "Women in Advertising"
Laura Livesey (UHD): "Capitalizing on Sex: The Rise of Sex Based Content in Modern
Women's Magazines"
Carolina Perez Lopez (UHD): "Pornography Induced Sexual Aggression towards Women"
Char Locket (UHD):"Body Image, Consumer Culture, and Social Justice"
Tashia N. Robinson (UHD):"Abuse of Hysterectomies Due to Fibroids"
Houston
Transgender Women
Moderator: Professor Bill Davis (UHD, Social Sciences)
Rashica Bennett (UHD)
Kris McCrary (UHD)
Ayamair Reyna (UHD)
Introduction, 9:00-9:15 am, Auditorium
Dean DoVeanna Fulton, College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Session A, 9:15-10:15 am
White Oak
Problems of Masculinity in Grimm's Fairy Tales
Moderator: Dr. Tammis Thomas (English, UHD)
Helen Martinez (UHD): "The Boy Who Went Forth and
Became a Man"
Lionel Vela (UHD): "The Two Princes"
Thomas Canny (UHD): "Rapunzel: A New Fairy Tale"
Sahra Harvin (UHD): "A Real Man"
Buffalo Bayou
Selling Bodies: Image, Media, Medicine, and Commerce
Moderator: Professor Arthur Vallejo (Psychology, UHD)
Morgan Milburn (UHD) & Jeremy Scott (UHD): "Women in Advertising"
Laura Livesey (UHD): "Capitalizing on Sex: The Rise of Sex Based Content in Modern
Women's Magazines"
Carolina Perez Lopez (UHD): "Pornography Induced Sexual Aggression towards Women"
Char Locket (UHD):"Body Image, Consumer Culture, and Social Justice"
Tashia N. Robinson (UHD):"Abuse of Hysterectomies Due to Fibroids"
Houston
Transgender Women
Moderator: Professor Bill Davis (UHD, Social Sciences)
Rashica Bennett (UHD)
Kris McCrary (UHD)
Ayamair Reyna (UHD)
Houston
Perceptions and Representations: Gender in History, Literature, Mythology, and Politics
Moderator: Professor Rachel Dickson (Drama, UHD)
Alexandria Carter & Reynaldo Cienfuegos (UHD):"Femininity and Masculinity in Greek
Mythology"
Suzanne Cuellar (UHD): "Griselda, the Good Wife with a Ball Gag: Gender in the Canterbury
Tales"
Syneetra Alaine Williams (UHD): "The History of the Fight for Women's Rights"
Jeni Braziel (UHD): "Gender Perceptions and their Effects on Personality and People"
Session C, 11:45 am -12:45 pm
White Oak
Transcending Structures of Silence: Archiving Marginalized Student Voices on an HBCU
Campus Moderator: Dr. M. Clay Hooper (Communication, PVAMU)
Mason M. Chandler (PVAMU): "The Politics of Respectability and the Silencing of LGBTQ
Voices on HBCU Campuses"
Mecca D. Price (PVAMU): "Social Media and Marginalized Identities Among HBCU Students"
Jeaiza M. Quiñones (PVAMU): "Sex Crimes and Self-Censorship on HBCU Campuses"
Buffalo Bayou
Stories of Gender
Moderator: Assistant Dean Crystal Guillory (UHD, CHSS)
Rachel Lee (UH): "Seen"
James Wilson (UHD): "The Choice"
Lunch, 12:45-1:30 pm, Coffee House
Session D, 1:30-2:30 pm
White Oak
The Drama of Gender
Moderator: Professor Rachel Dickson (Drama, UHD)
Amanda Knott & Landon Gregory (UHD): "The Manipulation of Gender Roles and Stereotypes
within George E. Wolfes' The Colored Museum"
Paula Oliveira & Ambriana Starks (UHD): "The Fathers of Native Son and its Journey"
Natalie Garcia (UHD): "A Mother's Love? Sacrifice in Imitation of Life (1934 & 1959)"
Buffalo Bayou
Reclaiming Women's Bodies
Moderator: Professor Ben Robles (Social Work, UHD)
Adela Galidno, Suneil Randhawa, Johnathan Smith, & Anastasia Zavala (UHD): "Sexualization
of Women in Music Videos"
Bryanna Curtis, Wilson Gomez, Laura Hoang, & Nneka Nwokobia (UHD): "Crisis in the
Military: Sexual Assault on Women Personnel"
Heaven Bernstine, Antigua Ellis, & Claudia O'Brien (UHD): "Impact of Individualism
through Body Image"
Rosa L. Burns, Kareem Ghazali, & Maria S. Santos (UHD): "Women's Movement: The Body
Image Alliance with Fitness and Health in the Third Wave"
Marcus Edward Adams, Jesus Garza, Grady George, & Concepcion Morales (UHD): "The
Many Hats of Single Mothers"
Mariah Berry, Destiny Jiles, Ashraf Osman, Zaurez Rashid, & Clara Wolf (UHD): "Women
in Today's Society"
Houston
How Houston Lost Its HERO: Gender Paranoia Goes to the Bathroom
Moderator: Dr. Johanna Schmertz (English, UHD)
Joshua Franklin (UHD): "How Houston Lost Its HERO"
Mobeen Azhar (UHD): "Beauty From the Beast? Hate, High Art, and HERO"
Magge Nunez (UHD): "An Upsetting Defeat for the Transgender Community"
Session E, 2:45-3:45 pm
White Oak
Undoing and Redoing Gender Norms in "Cinderella"
Moderator: Dr. Tammis Thomas (English, UHD)
Evelyn Garcia (UHD): "Undoing and Redoing Gender Norms in 'Cinderella'"
Jocelyne Torres (UHD): "Liberella"
Chase Otts (UHD): "Ever After"
Buffalo Bayou
Slavery and the Shaping of African American Gender Identities
Moderator: Dr. Felicia Harris (Communication Studies, UHD)
Deisy Cornelio (UHD): "Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglas: Victims of Slavery, Different
Suffering"
Cleo Mohansingh (UHD): "Harriet Jacobs's Representation of True Womanhood in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl"
Dishae Wimbish (UHD): "Gender and Its Influence During Slavery"
Monisha Brown (UHD): "Enslavement Effects on Men"
Houston
Gender in Literature and History
Moderator: Dr. Michael Dressman (English, UHD)
Emily Ames (UHD): "The King is the Queen: The History and Drama of Henry V"
Yadira Gamez (UHD): "Two Women: Literary Portraits of Women in The Awakening and The Dead"
Kevin Johnson (UHCL): "Womanism: Fiction and Nonfiction"
Session F, 4:00-5:00 pm
White Oak
Breaking Barriers
Moderator: Dr. Azar Rejaie(Art History, UHD)
London Sneden (SHSU): "Historical Erasure of the LGBTQ Community"
James Montalvo (UHD): "LGBTQ Issues"
Yadira Gamez (UHD): "The Bromance: Male Comradeship in the Military"
Buffalo Bayou
Gender, Race, and the Struggle for Equality Moderator: Professor Ben Robles (Social Work, UHD)
Roger Pichon (UHD): "Ellen Craft's Gender Bending"
Chioma Emuka (TSU): "Black Masculinity, Social Capital, and Media Entrepreneurship