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American Studies PhD Students

  • Jenna Bennett

    material culture, food history, history of technology, the Great Depression

  • C.G. Branch

    Star studies, reproductive labor, discourses of disobedience, political economy

  • Anne Callahan

    Histories of Work and Leisure, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity, Print Culture

  • Anjali Carroll

    Comparative Ethnic Studies; Popular Culture; Gender and Sexuality Studies

  • Max Clee

    out of sight, out of mind: technologies of obfuscation in Postwar American waste management

  • Makenzie Coker

    Material and popular culture, how people interact with historical narratives in non-academic contexts

  • Emily Craig

    Food Studies, Popular Culture Representations of Food, the 1950s and 1960s, Intersections of Race, Gender, and Class in American Popular Culture

  • Ryan Deneen

    Twentieth Century American History and the History of Popular Music

  • Jesse Dritz

    History of photography, material culture, performance studies

  • Lindsay Gould

    television studies, black studies, and twentieth century American history

  • Camden Hunt

    Queer Theory, Futurity, Gender Studies

  • Olivia (Liv) Jacobs

    Monsters, Ghosts, and Demons
    American Traditional Music and Dance Communities
    Folk Aesthetics and Social Movements

  • Zoe Johnson

    American popular film and television, gender/queer studies, disability studies, cultural history

  • Genna Kane

    History of Boston, Urban History, Environmental History, Architectural History

  • Ella Kotsen

    19th and 20th Century American Literary Regionalism, New England Literary Regionalism, Gender and Sexuality Studies

  • Perri Meldon

    Public history, environmental history, cultural landscapes

  • Hannah Muhlfelder

    New England land history, Native American and Indigenous histories in Massachusetts

  • Fallon Murphy

    20th Century American literature, Transatlantic Studies, Gender and Sexuality, and History of Material Texts

  • Jack Ott

    Nontheatrical film, geography, and labor history

  • Ena Ozaki

    US cultural history, literary history, the history of the book, periodical studies

  • Carolyn Parker-Fairbain

    Cultures of resistance within Black and Indigenous communities on Turtle Island; Reparations and Land Back

  • Graham Peterson

    American Popular Music, Whiteness Studies, Identity and Musical Agency, Blackface Minstrelsy, Guitar Performance

  • MaryKate Smolenski

    The Loyalist Legacy: Memory and Material Culture of New England Loyalists, 1776 – 1976

  • Mary Snyder

    19th century architectural history, material culture, museum studies, US History

  • Korie Tinch

    Queer Theory, Identity, Popular Culture and Media

  • Meghan Townes

    Material Culture, Visual Culture, Southern Studies, and Public Humanities

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