Department of Gender Studies

Jocelyne B. Scott is ABD in the department and her dissertation, "Friendship on Sorority Row: Ritual, Privilege, and Activism", intervenes into a broader cultural conversation that tends to interpret sorority women as bodies—bodies for men's sexual consumption, binge-drinking bodies, and hazing/hazed bodies—through ethnographic research conducted with collegiate and alumnae sorority women. She received her M.A. in Gender Studies from Indiana University and holds B.A. degrees in French and International Relations from Bucknell University.

My interdisciplinary research and pedagogical interests are broadly rooted in feminist and queer theory and queer kinship formations, critical whiteness studies, qualitative research methods and ethnography, popular culture, sexuality, social justice, and the politics of homosocial communities.