Shantese Wilkinson

Shantese Renee Wilkinson holds a masters' degree in Global Gender Studies. Her overall studies with the department is reflective of her thesis topic: interrogating the ways that Toni Morrison uses the characters in The Bluest Eye to respond to white supremacy.

Shantese's current focus is on African-American girls and women in the United States within the 20th and 21st centuries. In addition to work with the department, she is a substitute teacher with Buffalo Public Schools and Erie 1 BOCES, as well as a volunteer with Erie County Democratic Committee. Shantese's current endeavors were triggered by her research and contributions to papers in Literature and Language conferences during her tenure with SUNY Old Westbury, where she graduated with a bachelor of arts in English: Literature and Language in 2013.

Awards and Honors

Arthur A. Schomburg Fellowship, UB

President Tripathi congratulates Shantese at the 2018 Graduate Commencement Ceremony

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Neelam Maheshwari
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"There was not a single day during the GGS studies that I did not go home feeling challenged, enlightened or just incrementally motivated to find ways to bring such brilliant learnings into my work back at home in India, after I finished my PhD."
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Josh Cerretti
9/24/19
Since completing his PhD, John Cerretti has worked as an Assistant Professor of History and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Western Washington University.
Hilary Vandenbark
11/17/22
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Nicky Fox
11/30/18
"After getting my MA at the University at Buffalo, I went on to get my PhD in Sociology at Brandeis University, which was my top choice of schools at the time. I am currently a professor of criminal justice at California State University, Sacramento."
Anamika Priyadarshini
6/11/18
"Currently I am working as an Assistant Professor with Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS). For the studies of arts and humanities, TISS is considered to be the second best academic institution after JNU in India."
Katie Kicinski
9/29/23
Katie Kicinski is now a full time assistant professor at SUNY Brockport in their Public Health and Health Education department.
Rasel Madaha
7/25/22
"I owe my success to the department. I started traveling across the world after joining the department. I have never stopped."
Elif Ege
10/20/20
Elif Ege is currently writing her dissertation on the Kurdish and Turkish women’s movements in Turkey and their multi-tiered collaborations and negotiations around the international norms and standards of women's rights.
Shantese Wilkinson
11/30/18
Shantese holds a master's degree from the Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies and is a recipient of an Arthur A. Schomburg Fellowship from UB.
Yuyun Sriwahyuni
9/29/23
Yuyun works as a faculty member at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Law, and Politics at Yogyakarta State University
Karolina Kulicka
10/20/20
A former civil servant and representative of Poland to the European Union and the United Nations, Karolina researches gendered organizations, institutional mechanisms of sustaining inequality and public service institutions.