Denison University’s 183rd Commencement celebrates the achievements of the Class of 2024. The event includes keynote speaker Philip A. Glotzbach, remarks by Denison President Adam Weinberg, Priyanshi Kanoria ’24, and more!
In March 2024, eight Denison students, four of them women and gender studies majors, represented one-third of the papers offered during the Great Lakes College Association’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Collective Undergraduate Research and Activism e-Conference. In addition, four Denison faculty served as moderators for sessions.
Students and their presentations were:
Noah Chartier ’25, Theorizing Obligations of Privilege
Mia Fischel ‘26, The Only Verdict is Vengeance: The Limits of Anarchy in V for Vendetta
Jaci Hershberger ’24, Where’s Her Agency?: The Impact of Narrative Perspective in the Representation of Sub-Saharan African Women
Muhammad Ali Imran ’24, The Empire’s New Clothes: Feminism, Antiracism, and Anticolonialism
Ikera (Kee) Olandesca ’26, Opposites Attack: Male-Female and Human-Nature Binaries in ‘Jibaro’
Eliza Scoggin ’26, Affirming a Place in the Picture: Analyzing the Liberative Potential of a Diverse Christ in the Visual Arts, Social Justice, and Advocacy
Abigail Strongin ’24, Reproductive Rights in Spain: Recognizing Catholicism’s Impact on the Political Evolution of Abortion Discourse
Zora Whitfield ’24, Crafting a Reproductive Justice Agenda: Addressing Reproductive Oppression through Rhizomatic Corrective and Justice Frameworks
Of the GLCA schools, Denison was the best-represented in terms of student presentations.
When Joan Straumanis came to Denison as a philosophy professor in 1971, she was introduced at her first faculty meeting as a "real feminist hell raiser."
Portraits in the department's office in Knapp Hall were created by Harper Leich '04, a studio art major with a concentration in painting and printmaking.