Graduate Student Directory

Bauserman, Kit
M.A./Ph.D.
Email: [[babauserman]]
Research Interests: Horror and Gothic Studies; Sound Studies; New Media; Queer Studies; Landscape and Wilderness; Environmental Humanities; Spectrality and Haunting; American Folklore

Blaiklock, Vania
M.A./Ph.D.
Email: [[vbblaiklock]]
Research Interests: Critical Race Studies; Critical Legal Studies; African American Studies; 19th and 20th Century Black Education; Constitutional Jurisprudence; First Amendment Jurisprudence – Religion Clauses; American Legal History

Bowers, Anna
M.A.
Email: [[aabowers01]]
Research Interests: Art History, Early American Art History, Material Culture, Museum Studies, Art and Environment.

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

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.
Email:

Conway, Kelly
Ph.D.
Email: [[e|kaconway]]
Research Interests: Material Culture; Museum Studies and Historiography; Memory and Memorialization; 19th and 20th Century U.S. Cultural History.

Garcia Mendoza, Claudia
Ph.D.
Email: [[cgarciamendoza]]
Research Interests: Media, Cultural, Disability, and Queer Studies, digital labor, representation, social justice, capitalism, immigration, and race.

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 Rosengarten
Ph.D.
Email: [[RHRHunnicutt]]
Research Interests: Design history; architecture, interiors, and material culture; immersive museology; world’s fairs; corporate culture and design; histories, theories, and cultures of bureaucracy; occult studies; 20th-century US history

Jolles, Jay
Ph.D.
Email: [[e|jajolles]]
Research Interests: 20th and 21st century literature and culture, critical theory, comparative media studies, sound, noise, popular music (Taylor Swift), memory studies, surveillance studies, war and militarization, and theories of masculinity.

Keil, Anja
Ph.D.
Research Interests: States of Exception, Political Theory, Queer Theory, Gender Studies, Intersectionality, Minority Literatures, Displacement and forced migration

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

Lewis, Jordan
M.A.
Email: [[jalewis04]]

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

Perry, Margaret
M.A.
Email: [[maperry]]
Research Interests: Histories of science & medicine; the American asylum; public history; material culture; disability studies; medical ethics; philosophy of mind

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: U.S. environmental and agricultural history; craft and material culture; history of photography; cultural studies; settler colonialism; oral history; legal history; African American Studies; Indigenous Studies; community-engaged scholarship

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.
Email:
Research Interests: Queer Studies, Race/Racism, Cultural Studies, Social Movements

Sutherland, Nathaniel
Ph.D.
Email: [[nsutherland01]]
Research Interests: Modern and Contemporary American Literature; Race & Immigration Studies; Intergenerational Studies; Semifiction; American Pragmatism; Literary Theory & Continental Philosophy; Bob Dylan

Teel, Kevin
M.A.
Email: [[kcteel]]
Research Interests: American Legal History, History of the Early American Republic, Political Theory, Constitutionalism, Foundations of Government, Civics, Secondary Social Studies Education & Curriculum

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

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