Ph.D Students in American Studies:
Istifaa Ahmed
First Year Student
Erin Aoyama
20th century American intellectual and cultural history; Asian American Studies; Studies of Empire; Public Memory and Apology; Histories of Violence
Bryant Brown
Second Year Student
Sam Coren
Anthropocene; Feminist Science and Technology Studies; Transgender Studies; U.S. Built Environment
Jonathan Cortez
“The Age of Encampment: Labor, Race, and Surveillance along the Southern US Border, 1933-1975”
Caroline Cunfer
First Year Student
Thomas Dai
Contemporary Nonfiction & Poetry; Queer Theory; Asian American Studies; Literature of Space & Place
Jennifer Dolan
Science and popular culture; the psychological self; history of medicine and the body; diet, fitness, and self-help culture; narrative
Kathrinne Duffy
“Phrenology and the Invention of Personality in Nineteenth Century America”
Yuanyuan Feng
Asian American Community Politics and Culture; Asian American Literature; Chinese Diaspora in the Americas
Maggie Unverzagt Goddard
"Improper Objects: Embodied Aesthetics and the Politics of the Pelvis"
Matthew Kateb Goldman
Cities and Built Environments; Cultural and Social Thought; Power, Knowledge, and Aesthetics; Queer Studies; Infrastructures
Gregory Hitch
"The Forest Keepers: An Environmental History of the Menominee Watershed"
Kristen Iemma
Information Science; Knowledge Organization; Memory Studies
Jacquelynn Jones
19th and 20th Century Visual and Material Culture; Black Feminist Theory; Racial-Mixture; History of Photography; Public Humanities
Makana Kushi
Race in Hawaiʻi, Comparative Ethnic Studies, and Indigenous Education
Allyson LaForge
Native American and Indigenous Studies; Histories of the Native Northeast; Decolonizing Methodologies; Public Humanities; Material Culture
Eleanor Lake
"Mother. Nurse. Housewife. Maid.: The Enduring Moral Politics of 'Women's Work' in America"
Jonathan MacDonald
First Year Student
Claritza Maldonado
Caribbean Studies, Afro-Latinx Studies, Sound and Aesthetics, Poetry and Spoken Word, Puerto Rico and Diaspora
Alyssa Manansala
First Year Student
Anni Pullagura
“Seeing Feeling: The Work of Empathy in Exhibitionary Spaces”
Edwin Rodriguez
Central American Studies, El Salvador, transnationalism, displacement, and migration
Julian Saporiti
"No-No Boy"
Nicole Sintetos
Asian American Studies; Science, Technology and Society; 20th c Immigration History; Environmental History; Public Humanities.
Aura Ochoa
First Year Student
Mark Tseng-Putterman
Asian American Social Movements, Interracial/Coalition Politics, Race and Digital Media
Katharina Weygold
First Year Student