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"I can't believe we're expected to pay for this": Live spectatorship, economic exploitation, and the 2025 Wimbledon Championships

Novak Djokovic, widely regarded as one of the greatest tennis players to ever live, has been at the forefront of public deliberation regarding the lack of just compensation for professional tennis players. Lake (2017) furthers that the branding decisions made surrounding Grand Slam events, the most revered events in professional tennis, reinforce a value system that intrinsically undermines the labor of the professional athletes involved by extorting their labor while simultaneously undercompensating them. Kim and Mao (2019) demonstrate that commercial sports as sites of live spectatorship create a deepened power imbalance between the consumer of labor and those producing said labor. Thus, this project argues for symbiotic relationship between spectatorship and exploitation; the exploitative nature of the elite competitive athletics industry becomes emboldened by the commitment to and profit from live spectatorship and live viewing environments become further entrenched in the throes of increased exploitative practices.

Health Narratives of Women Domestic Workers in Urban India

This project aims to understand how women domestic workers in India make sense of their health. Domestic workers play a crucial role in the households in India as they perform cleaning, washing, cooking and other chores (Agarwala and Saha, 2018; Anderson, 2001). They are marginalized on the basis of their gender, class, and caste (Chigateri, 2007; Chickerur, 2021). Historically, caste has operated in a way to oppress, silence and erase those individuals who did the 鈥榙irty鈥� jobs and therefore placed the stigma of caste on the bodies of these individuals (Dey, 2021; Varman, et al, 2023). So, this project seeks to answer: How do women domestic workers from Lucknow, India, make sense of/communicate about and negotiate health?

The rot is all the way through": LGBTQ+ employees' perceptions of organizational homophobia and the implications for organizational disidentification

Given attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion in the United States (Watson, 2024), examining ways that various forms of prejudice are insidiously embedded in organizations is vital. My dissertation investigates (1) how LGBTQ+-identified employees perceive homophobia in their employing organization during interpersonal interactions or as part of organizational structures and (2) how they navigate their organizational and LGBTQ+ identities. As informed by organizational disidentification (the cognitive distance individuals place between themselves and their organizations; Elsbach & Bhattacharya, 2001; Oliveira & Cabral Cardoso, 2018) and the intersectional theory of closeting (15 axioms highlighting the closeting process, normative assumptions, stigma shaping non/disclosing, McDonald et al., 2020), I examine the ways that queer employees describe their tensions between personal and professional identity as experienced in a (self-identified) homophobic workplace.

Witches vs. The Patriarchy: How Online Witches Organize Around Magick to Enact Resistance

This paper highlights the popular, yet often overlooked, role of online covens in organizing political resistance. It investigates the subreddit r/WitchesVsPatriarchy, a community of 794,000 members who collaboratively engage in a unique form of digital resistance. The study鈥檚 central focus is to uncover how this online coven organizes around the concept of magic鈥攐r "magick"鈥攖o enact resistance against patriarchal, white supremacist, and homophobic systems. Data was systematically collected from the subreddit using Python to scrape posts and comments containing the keywords 鈥渉ex鈥�, 鈥減atriarchy鈥�, "magic," "magick," and "witchcraft." This extensive dataset is analyzed via a semantic network analysis to map thematic relationships and the flow of ideas. The findings are then interpreted using David Boje鈥檚 (2001) story network analysis, a framework particularly adept at revealing fragmented stories and their role in constructing larger collective narratives. In doing so, the analysis reveals how individual posts and comments serve as critical links that construct a larger, cohesive narrative of collective empowerment and resistance. This research contributes to a deeper understanding of digital organizing, highlighting how magickal practices can serve as a potent framework for fostering solidarity and political action among marginalized groups. The paper thus demonstrates that magic is not merely a symbolic tool, but a practical and organizing force for meaningful social change.

鈥淲ho Threw This Party?鈥�: Examining the Tumultuous Organization of Pride Parades

This dissertation explores the organizational features of Pride鈥攖he celebration of gender, sexuality, and identity in the public sphere. Stemming from the Stonewall Riots in the 1960s, Pride responds to institutional forms of heteronormativity and homo/transphobia. In the past decade, various stakeholders have invested in Pride, turning the space into a complex terrain where multiple identities, communities, and material structures intersect. This project takes place within the boundaries of a Pride organization鈥� 鈥淪outhern Pride鈥濃�攁nd expands on 卢ethnographic interviews of organizers (e.g., board members, parade volunteers, community stakeholders) along with experiences of myself as an observer of Pride events (e.g., board meetings, planning committees, parade days). I focus on my organizational involvement with Southern Pride to underscore the 鈥渄ay-to-day work of social movements鈥� (Bruce, 2016, p. 14) and critique dominant interests that constrain emancipatory politics under the guise of diversity, equity, and inclusion. 

Probands鈥� Primary and Secondary Goals during Breast Cancer Genetic Risk Disclosure with Family Members

Clinicians recommend that families with an individual who has a known genetic mutation should be informed of their personal genetic risk. The disclosure of genetic risk to family members can have a significant impact on the risk management decisions the members make concerning their own health (Daly et al., 2016; Fehniger et al., 2013; Katapdoi et al., 2017). Thus, better understanding whether and how individuals are likely to discuss genetic risk with their families is important for lowering cancer risk through prevention and management decisions. 

Disruption, Resilience, and Change: Non-Profit Organizing During COVID-19 Pandemic

This project aimed to uncover resilience mechanisms that enabled a New York-based NPO to survive the COVID-19 pandemic and emerge stronger after the crisis was over. The project also considered how resilience happens at the intersection of race, ethnicity, gender, age, and language and is impacted by (and impacts) such intersections.

Assessing Transgender Individuals鈥� Perceptions of Nonaccommodation: The Influence of Inferred Motives on the Patient-Provider Relationship

Clinicians receive little training on transgender health in medical school and often feel uncomfortable and uncertain about treating transgender patients (Harbin et al., 2012). This apprehension can lead clinicians to not accommodate these patients鈥� communication needs (i.e., over emphasizing or ignoring their gender identity; Ross & Castle Bell, 2017). Although researchers have studied nonaccommodative behaviors that clinicians should avoid, little work has explored transgender patients鈥� assumptions about different forms of nonaccommodation. Using communication accommodation theory (CAT) this project explores how assumptions regarding clinician nonaccommodation influence transgender patients鈥� health decision-making (e.g., seeking out other clinicians) (Dragojevic et al, 2016). 

Military veterans' experiences of exiting the military: A relational turbulence perspective

This project uses relational turbulence theory to better understand U.S. military veterans鈥� experiences after they separate from the military. The military exit process is often categorized under the term reintegration, which broadly focuses on both a social and occupational return to civilian culture. Common challenges experienced during reintegration include issues with psychological health, family, physical health, employment, housing, finances, education, legal, and spiritual concerns (Elnitsky et al., 2017). These challenges may lead to uncertainty within the veteran's close relationships but could also lead to possible identity adjustment issues for the veteran such as raising questions like 鈥淲ho am I?鈥�. Learning more about how veterans experience exiting the military may better inform ways to assist future service members and spouses as they transition to civilian life.

Title of Proposed Project: Navigating Silence, Trauma, and Memory: Breaking Kosovar Women鈥檚 Unwillingness to Talk About the War

This research project aims to begin a conversation in Kosova to break the silence surrounding the Kosovo War and the unwillingness among Kosovars, especially women, to revisit memories of the war. It explores the lived experiences of thirty-five Kosovar women who survived the Serbian genocidal violence and oppression and examines how they story their traumatic experiences of wartime. I hope that talking about these experiences by engaging in life review can lead to sensemaking and healing from the now normalized suffering and trauma.

Outside the Boundaries of Biomedicine: A Culture-Centered Approach to Female Patients Living Undiagnosed and Chronically Ill

As a community who voices feeling misunderstood, unheard, and uncared for by the U.S medical system, female patients who live undiagnosed and chronically ill and their health narratives lie beyond biomedical boundaries. To examine how this community narrates their experiences in and with the biomedical system, I employed the culture-centered approach to health communication as a theoretical framework as well as methods of semi-structured interviewing with 20 participants and critical autoethnography to recount my own health experiences living as a part of this population. Utilizing an abductive thematic analysis, participants communicated the following themes: (a) being pushed and seen as existing outside the biomedical box, (b) biomedical failures and their unmet community health needs, and lastly, (c) how the interview fostered a space of much-needed community. These narratives not only begin to fill the discursive gaps biomedicine creates, teaches, and reinforces, but also practically help to imagine a new era of communicative medicine, one that that prioritizes support over diagnosis and care over cure.