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Current Graduate Students

 

FIRST Year students

MA in Public Humanities

SECOND Year students

MA in Public Humanities

  • Krystal Appiah
  • Amy Atticks
  • Erin Boyle
  • Sara Emmenecker
  • Kathryn Higgins
  • Natasha Khandekar
  • Lucia Lopez
  • Anna Moir
  • Adrian Moore
  • Jean Paupeck
  • Kaitlynne Ward
  • Shana Weinberg
  • Esteban Ucros Pinzon
  • Meghan Townes
  • Janet Zwolinski
  • Reina Shibata
  • Montana Blanco
  • Caitlin Fisher
  • Micah Salkind

 

 

 


Ph.D Students

  • Jin Suk Bae
    Korean-American relations; GI wives; Korean American adoptees; Race and Ethnicity
  • Kevin Barry
    Race, policing and incarceration; television/film studies; U.S. empire/war
  • Liza Burbank-Gilb
    "Advertising Love: Personal Ads, Product Advertisements, and the Consumption of Romance"
  • Clarissa Ceglio
    Race, nation and empire; visual studies; material culture/museum history; digital scholarship
  • Thomas Chen
    "Making Boston's Chinatown: Race, Place, and Culture in the Postwar Metroplis"
  • Joseph Clark
    "Canned History: American Newsreels and the Commodification of Reality, 1911-1950"
  • Erin Curtis
    Popular culture; material culture; museums and collecting; cultural theory; Asian American history; U.S.-Asia relations
  • Sean Dinces
    History of masculinity; radical political economy; race, gender and science

  • Pier Dominguez
    First year student
  • Sarah Fine
    Culture and the built environment; twentieth century American literature; race, class, gender and consumerism
  • Brent Fujioka
    First year student

  • Elena Gonzales
    Social justice and museums; cultural history; visual culture; cultural crossings
  • Maria Hwang
    Migration and sex work; U.S. empire and militarization; gender and feminist theories; sex and sexuality studies
  • Wen Jin
    American empire; Asian American studies; American cultural history

  • Amy Johnson
    Chinese-American history; cultural history; public history; comparative ethnic studies; history and memory
  • Jessica Johnson
    "Theologies of Refuge in the Racial State: Race, Religion, and U.S. Refugee History, 1945-1990"
  • Heather Lee
    Food culture; community memory and history; race and immigration; cultural history
  • Eric Larson
    “Labor, Social Movements and Syndicalism in the United States”
  • Mireya Loza
    "Envisioning the Past: Public Collection and the History of the Bracero Program"
  • Sara Matthiesen
    First year student
  • Angela Mazaris
    “Claiming History, Claiming Rights: Queer Discourses of History and Politics"
  • Laurie Mengel
    “Beyond Picture Brides: Japanese Women, Migration, Marriage and Divorce 1880 - 1930”
  • Ani Mukherji
    “Moscow’s Community of Color: A Study of Anticolonial Thought and Practice in the Interwar Period”
  • Chung Hong Nguyen
    "Vietnam War/American War: Memory and the Construction of History in The U.S. and Vietnam"
  • Ronaldo Noche
    First year student
  • Jonathan Olly
    "Imagining the Coast: History, Heritage and Tourism in New England"
  • Malgorzata Rymsza-Pawlowska
    "Bicentennial Memory: Postmodernity, Media and National Identity in the United States, 1966-1980"
  • Annette Rodriguez
    First year student
  • Pia Sahni
    First year student
  • Felicia Salinas
    "Latina Imprints and Impressions: A Study of Contemporary Popular Fiction for Latina Readers"
  • Robyn Schroeder
    Historical memory; American political institutions; nationalism/nationalizing projects
  • Sarah Seidman
    "African Americans and the Cuban Revolution: Political Solidarity and Cultural Production, 1959-1979"
  • Kelli Shapiro
    “When the Modern Becomes Historic: The Historic Preservation of the Recent Past in America"
  • Mario Sifuentez
    “Race, Labor and Citizenship in Oregon”
  • Aiko Takeuchi
    "Controlling Female Fertility: The Trans-Pacific Politics of Reproduction and Eugenics"
  • Aslihan Tokgoz
    "'Pink Serials,' Gendered Textualities and Feminine Rock: Counterpatriarchal Pleasures of Turkish Women Reading American Popular Culture"
  • Tam Tran
    Immigrant youth and activism; documentary film/video ethnography; digital humanities scholarship; Latino and Asian American studies
  • Colleen Tripp
    First year student
  • Carlos Vazquez
    Psychoanalysis and subject formation; twentieth century American poetry and fiction; Nuyorican literature; James Merrill, Junot Diaz, and Gary Fisher
  • Miel Wilson
    African American literature and history; twentieth century popular culture, race and ethnicity; public history and historical memory