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Current Graduate Students

MA in Public Humanities Students

First Year      

  • Rachel Binning
  • Rosemary Gill
  • Nara Hernandez
  • Al Lees
  • Elizabeth Manekin
  • Leah Namias
  • Meg Rotzel
  • Meredith Safford
  • Aliza Schiff
  • Miranda Summers

Second Year      

  • Deborah Abramson
  • Shawn Biegen
  • Alma Carillo
  • Laura Cohen
  • Kathleen Devlin
  • Stephanie Fortunato
  • Tracy Gierada
  • Annie Johnson
  • Amanda Murray
  • Betsy O’Neill

Ph.D Students

  • Jin Suk Bae
    Korean-American relations; GI wives; Korean American adoptees; Race and Ethnicity
  • Mell Bolen
    "Black Atlantic History and Culture; American Women's Thought and Thoughts on American Women; American Higher Education History and Administration; Americans Abroad in Travel Literature"
  • Liza Burbank-Gilb
    Twentieth century consumer culture, U.S. gender history and the history of sexuality; magazines, television and advertising; racial formation and representation
  • Clarissa Ceglio
    First Year Ph.D. student

  • Marcia Chatelain
    Reach for Excellence Professor of Honors and African-American Studies, University of Oklahoma
    “The Most Interesting Girl of this Country is the Colored Girl: Girls and Racial Uplift in Great Migration Chicago"

  • Thomas Chen
    Asian American Studies; race and ethnic studies; American cultural history
  • Josephine Chiles
    Twentieth century popular culture; city culture; public humanities; identity and memory
  • 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

  • Matthew Delmont
    Assistant Professor, American Studies, Scripps College
    "American Bandstand and School Segregation in Postwar Philadelphia"

  • Caroline Frank
    Visiting Professor, Department of History, Philosophy, and the Social Sciences, Rhode Island School of Design
    "China as Object and Imaginary in the Making of an American Nation, 1680-1780"

  • Gill Frank
    "Save Our Children: The Sexual Politics of Child Protection in the United States, 1969-1989"

  • James Gatewood
    Part-time Faculty, Department of History, California State University, Los Angeles
    "City Lights Books: The History of a CommunityCity Lights Books: The History of a Community"

  • Wen Jin
    First Year Ph.D. student

  • Jessica Johnson
    Race in Twentieth Century U.S. History; Public Humanities; Empire and Immigration
  • Melanie Kohnen
    "Out of the Closet? The Discourse of Visibility, Sexuality, and Queer Representation in American Film and Television, 1969-Present"
  • Heather Lee
    First Year Ph.D. student
  • Eric Larson
    “Labor, Social Movements and Syndicalism in the United States”
  • Mireya Loza
    Latino Studies; Public Humanities; Memory, Space and Representation; Cultural Studies; Urban Studies
  • Angela Mazaris
    “Claiming History, Claiming Rights: Queer Discourses of History and Politics”
  • Gabriel Mendes
    "Living the Dilemma: Black Americans' Encounter with the Human Sciences, 1945-1960"
  • 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
    Asian American Immigrant Experience; Public Humanities; History of American Diplomacy; Social Movements
  • Jonathan Olly
    Material culture; museums and memory; public history; built environment; environmental history; New England maritime region

  • Sarah Petrides
    " The Postregional Turn in Contemporary American Literature"

  • Matthew Quest
    Adjunct Lecturer, Program of African New World Studies, Florida International University
    " C.L.R. James, Direct Democracy, and National Liberation"

  • Susanna Rankin-Bohme
    Deputy Editor, International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health
    "DBCP in the United States and Central America: Body, Nation and Transnationalism in the History of a Toxic Product"

  • Malgorzata Rymsza-Pawlowska
    Twentieth century popular culture; visual studies; nationalism and identity; public humanities and production of knowledge
  • Felicia Salinas
    Chicana/o and Latina/o studies, feminist studies, visual culture
  • Sarah Seidman
    Race, visual culture and social movements in the Americas; public humanities
  • Kelli Shapiro
    “When the Modern Becomes Historic: The Historic Preservation of the Recent Past in America”
  • Mario Sifuentez
    “Race, Labor and Citizenship in Oregon”
  • Margaret Stevens
    “The Red International and the Black Caribbean, 1919-1945”
  • Mikiko Tachi
    "The Folk Music Revival Then and Now: Politics, Commercialism, and Authenticity in Folk Music Communities in the U.S. and Japan"
  • Aiko Takeuchi
    U.S.-Japan cultural relations; Asian American history and culture; historical memory and representation; American cultural history in a transnational context
  • Aslihan Tokgoz
    "'Pink Serials,' Gendered Textualities and Feminine Rock: Counterpatriarchal Pleasures of Turkish Women Reading American Popular Culture"
  • Carlos Vazquez
    Psychoanalysis and subject formation; twentieth century American poetry and fiction; Nuyorican literature; James Merrill, Junot Diaz, and Gary Fisher
  • Sarah Wald
    "Place, Identity, and Mobility in New Visions of the US West"
  • Miel Wilson
    African American literature and history; twentieth century popular culture, race and ethnicity; public history and historical memory