Graduate Student Directory

Albrecht, Joni
M.A.
Email: [[jaalbrecht]]
Research Interests: American judicial history and open access publishing.

Allegakoen, Aanjali
M.A./Ph.D.

Anderson, Erna
Ph.D.
Email: [[e|ehandersson]]
Research Interests: Fictional Orphans; Popular Culture; Comic Books and Graphic Novels; Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies; Critical Race Theory; Intersectionality; Hot Air Balloons; Narratology; Narrative; Surveillance; American Myth; Identity Formation; Early Twentieth-Century Literature; Roads

Artz, Kendall
Ph.D.

Bauserman, Kit
M.A./Ph.D.
Email: [[babauserman]]
Research Interests: Monsters, Magic, and the Supernatural; Popular Culture; Gothic Studies; New Media Studies; Religious Studies; Folklore and Folk Cultures; Spectrality; Ethnographic Methods; Appalachia and the US South; Witchcraft; Oral History; Space and Place; Human-Nature Relationships

Beltran-Rubio, Laura
Ph.D.
Email: [[e|llbeltranrubio]]
Research Interests: Arts of the Americas; History of Design and the Transmission of Ideas; Fashion, Jewelry, and Decorative Arts; Drawings and Prints; Digital Art History

Blaiklock, Vania
M.A./Ph.D.
Email: [[vbblaiklock]]
Research Interests: Critical Race Studies, African American Studies, Religious Studies, Education, Jurisprudence, American Legal History

Brittain, Morgan
Ph.D.
Email: [[mjbrittain]]
Research Interests: Arts of the Americas; Ecocriticism, Environmental Justice, and the Environmental Humanities; Waterscape and Landscape; Decolonization.

Brown, Nicole
M.A.
Email: [[e|ncbrown]]
Research Interests: Intersectional relationship between 18th century religion, education, and the institution of slavery; literacy of enslaved peoples; African American education in colonial Virginia; enslaved narratives and oral histories; race, gender, and power dynamics in the 18th century British Empire; charitable institutions in the British Empire

Choo, Vera
M.A.

Conway, Kelly
Ph.D.
Email: [[e|kaconway]]
Research Interests: Historical American Glass, Material Culture, Museum Studies and Historiography, Food Studies, Labor Studies

Elder, Carissa
Ph.D.
Email: [[cjelder]]
Research Interests: Critical theories; Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies; American Religion; Capitalism; Popular Culture; History of American Conservatism

Garcia Mendoza, Claudia
Ph.D.
Email: [[cgarciamendoza]]
Research Interests: Media, Cultural, Disability, and Queer Studies, digital labor, representation, the construction of narratives and counternarratives in social media, ideology formation, social justice, capitalism, immigration, and race.

Gates, Diana
M.A.
Email: [[dbgates]]
Research Interests: Indigenous studies and critical Indigenous theory; Indigenous epistemologies and research methodologies; sovereignty and rematriation; Indigenous motherhood; coastal lifeways, ecology, and land-based education.

Giesken, Emma
M.A.

Giscombe, Peter
Ph.D.

Hackney, Jennifer
Ph.D.
Email: [[jphackney]]
Research Interests: American interiors, 20th C American Art, Decorative Arts and Design History, Film Studies, Visual and Material Culture, Set Design, Popular Culture.

Haines, Shana
Ph.D.
Email: [[e|slhaines]]
Research Interests: American Legal History, Southern Literature and Culture, Women’s Literature, African American Studies, Citizenship and Visual Culture, Plantation Material Culture and Every Day Life, The Long Civil Rights Movement, 19th and 20th Century American Literature, African American Literature, Cultural Studies, History and Theory of Race

House, Kathryn Previti
Ph.D.
Email: [[e|kchouse]]

Hunnicutt, Rachel
Ph.D.
Email: [[rhhunnicutt]]
Research Interests: Design history; architecture and interiors; corporate design and identity; world’s fairs; capitalism; consumerism; labor studies; economic novels; museum studies; foodways and food packaging; environmentalism; US socialism and Progressivism

Jolles, Jay
Ph.D.
Email: [[e|jajolles]]
Research Interests: Trauma theory, memory studies, critical theory, catastrophe, digital humanities, contemporary literatures in English, and sound studies

Lawless, Joseph
M.A./Ph.D
Email: [[e|jlawless]]
Website: https://ssrn.com/author=2766596
Research: Affect Studies; Criminal Law and Critique; Critical Legal Studies; Critical Race Studies; Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies; Jurisprudence; Media and Digital Studies; New Materialisms; Postmodernism and Poststructuralism; Psychoanalytic Theory; Queer Archival Methodologies; Temporality Studies; Visual Cultural Studies

Main, Hunter
MA
Email: [[e|hmain]]
Research Interests: 20th-Century American Literature, American Political Culture, Political Theory, Political Communication, Public Diplomacy

Napier, Alison
Ph.D.
Email: [[e|acnapier]]
Research Interests: Art and Architectural History; Material Culture; Colonial Portraiture of the Americas; Race Theory; Indigenous Populations; Postmodernism and Poststructuralism

Quinn, Zarah
M.A./Ph.D.
Email: [[e|zvquinn]]
Research Interests: Twentieth and Twenty-first century American Literature, Genre Studies, Literary Theory, Critical Race Studies, Narrative

Reeve, Tijuana
Ph.D.
Email: [[e|trreeve]]
Research Interests: Native American Literature, Culture, and History; Mixed Race Literature; Oral History; Narrative; Early American Literature; Postcolonial Theory; Critical Race Theory; Settler Colonialism; American Mythos; Minority Literatures and Rhetorics.

Resha, Adrienne
Ph.D.
Email: [[e|aresha]]
Website: {{http://www.adrienneresha.com}}
Research Interests: Arab and Muslim representation in American popular media, the superhero genre, comics studies, and media theory

Robinson, Molly
Ph.D.
Email: [[e|merobinson03]]
Research Interests: Environmental History; Craft and Material Culture; Black and Indigenous Studies; Science Studies; Museum Studies; Political Ecology; Legal History; Impacts of Climate Change on Art and Culture

Rodgers, Colleen
M.A.
Email: [[e|ckrodgers]]
Research Interests: American Religious Studies; Memory and Memorialization; Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies; Folk Music; Public History; Museum Studies; Popular Culture; American Capitalism

Shilo, Molly
M.A./Ph.D.
Email: [[e|mpshilo]]
Research Interests: Postcolonial studies; Critical Race Theory; Affect and Empathy; Education; Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies; Revolution and Social Movements

Slaby, Christopher J.
Ph.D.
Email: [[e|cjslaby]]
Research Interests: Native American History, Environmental Studies, Visual and Material Culture, Vernacular Architecture, the Built Environment, and Cultural Landscapes, Monuments, Memory, and Memorialization, Public History, Parks and Roads, Museum Studies, Popular Culture, the Northeast/New England.

Smoot, Kelsey
Ph.D.
Research Interests: Queer Studies, Race/Racism, Cultural Studies, Social Movements

Taylor, Andre
Ph.D.
Email: [[ataylor06]]
Research Interests: Interests: Oral History; Foodways; African Diaspora; Environmental History; Black and Indigenous Studies; African American History; Religion History; Museum Studies; Impacts of Climate Change on Culture

Thompson, Meagan
Ph.D.
Email: [[e|mathompson03]]
Research Interests: Trauma Studies; Queer of Color Critique; Gender Studies; Modern and Contemporary American Literature; New Media Studies; Fat Studies; Minority Literatures and Rhetorics; Performance Studies; Writing Center Pedagogy

Vouri-Richard, Derek
Ph.D.
Email: [[e|dvouririchard]]
Research Interests: Media and Cultural Studies, Film Studies and Visual Culture, History of American Media and Technology, American Capitalism, Late Nineteenth-Century and Twentieth-Century U.S. Cultural and Intellectual History

Woodbury, Sara
Ph.D.
Email: [[e|scwoodbury]]
Research Interests: Art access; traveling exhibitions; mobility studies; museum studies; 19th-20th-century American art; digital humanities