Elizabeth Grumer

Elizabeth Grumer is a Ph.D. candidate in History. She holds a BA in English with a History minor from Bryn Mawr College and an MA in Humanities from the University of Chicago. Under the supervision of Professor Brooke Blower, she studies 19th and 20th century American history. She is particularly interested in the intersections between gender, race/ethnicity, science, and the weird/supernatural. Her dissertation looks at paranormal interest in the US and UK during the mid-twentieth century. To learn more about Grumer’s research and publications, visit her webpage.

In Summer 2023, Elizabeth was named a 2023 Summer Graduate Intern in the Social Sciences. A collaborative program between the Center for Innovation in Social Science (CISS), the Office of the Associate Provost for Graduate Affairs, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GRS) the  program provides stipend-supported summer internships aimed at introducing Ph.D. students in Social Sciences fields and related disciplines to career opportunities at institutions beyond academia. This summer, under the supervision of Rachel Bacon, Elizabeth will be working with the Center for Mind And Culture (CMAC) working on the Modeling Religious Change project. She excited to work on such an interdisciplinary project and hopes to gain insight into how other disciplines understand religious history, and learn more about how to integrate their perspectives into my own work.