Kelsey Rosendale

Kelsey Rosendale earned her master’s degree in Women’s Studies from San Diego State University, focusing on reproductive justice, necropolitics, nationalism, Hungarian gender politics, and popular culture. 

Her timely thesis, “Politicizing the Woman’s Body: Incentivizing Childbirth to Rebuild Hungarian Nationalism,” examined how the emerging authoritarian Hungarian state controls white women’s bodies to promote whiteness amid a declining population. Using an intersectional lens of gender, race, and class, it revealed how nationalist policies prioritize whiteness while reducing women’s autonomy, contributing to scholarship on population policy, eugenics, necropolitics, and biopower.