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
