Graduate Students


MA in Public Humanities:

FIRST Year students

• Ged Carbone
• Erendina Delgadillo
• Victoria Fulton
• Anna Ghublikian 
• Alex Goodman 
• Carly Griffith
• Jane-Coleman Harbison
• Jacquelyn Harris
• Anna Links
• Adj Marshall
• Emily McCartan
• Marjory O'Toole 
• Resi Polixa
• Maria Quintero
• Anna Wada
• Nate Weisenberg

MA in American Studies

• Alissa Haddaji 
• Suzanne Enzerink  
• Chen Li 
• Chang Lu 
• Tomoaki Morikawa  
• Gayathri Muthukrishan 

  

SECOND Year students

• Kim Arcand
• Emily Bryant
• Peggy Chang
• Rachael Jeffers
• Amy Karwoski
• Nathasha Khandekar
• Elyse McNiff
• Bess Paupeck
• Sarah Reusché
• Allison Roberts
• Jess Unger
• Jasmine Utsey
• Anya Ventura

 

Ph.D Students

Jin Suk Bae
Korean-American relations; GI wives; Korean American adoptees; Race and Ethnicity

Horace Ballard
Second year student

Kevin Barry
Race, policing and incarceration; television/film studies; U.S. empire/war

Liza Burbank
"Advertising Love: Personal Ads, Product Advertisements, and the Consumption of Romance"

Clarissa Ceglio
“A Cultural Arsenal for Democracy: The War Work of U.S. Museums, 1930-1955”

Thomas Chen
“Remaking Boston’s Chinatown: Race, Place, and Community in the Postwar Metropolis"

Erin Curtis
“World Donut: Cambodians, Donuts, Los Angeles, 1975-Present.”

Sean Dinces
"Running With the Bulls: Sport and Politics at the end of the Twentieth Century"

Pier Dominguez
Film, television, visual culture, whiteness, gender/sexuality

Christopher Elias
Second year student

Sarah Fine
Culture and the built environment; twentieth century American literature; race, class, gender and consumerism

Samuel Franklin
Second year student

Brent Fujioka
Representation of race in comic books and graphic novels, film studies, game studies, monster theory

Elena Gonzales
"Resonance and Wonder: Museums Working for Social Justice"

Maria Hwang
Migration and sex work; U.S. empire and militarization; gender and feminist theories; sex and sexuality studies

Wen Jin
American empire; Asian American studies; American cultural history

Amy Johnson
'"The Coldest Blooded Outrage:' Constructing Race and Space in Late Nineteenth Century Los Angeles."

Jessica Johnson
"Theologies of Refuge in the Racial State: Race, Religion, and U.S. Refugee History, 1945-1990"

Majida Kargbo
Second year student

Heather Lee
Food culture; community memory and history; race and immigration; cultural history

Sara Matthiesen
Politics of the body, political activism, gender and sexuality, feminisms, gender violence

Crystal Ngo
Second year student

Chung Hong Nguyen
"Vietnam War/American War: Memory and the Construction of History in The U.S. and Vietnam"

Ronaldo Noche
Asian American Studies, foodways, race and empire

Jonathan Olly
"Imagining the Coast: History, Heritage and Tourism in New England"

Malgorzata Rymsza-Pawlowska
"Bicentennial Memory: Postmodernity, Media, and Historical Subjectivity in the United States, 1966-1980"

Annette Rodriguez
Immigration histories, racial formation, U.S. nativist movements and extralegal violence

Pia Sahni
Cultural Studies, Asian American literature and representation, feminist theory

Felicia Salinas
"Latina Imprints and Impressions: A Study of Contemporary Popular Fiction for Latina Readers"

Micah Salkind
Community Arts, Afro-diasporic cultural production, political performance

Robyn Schroeder
Historical memory; American political institutions; nationalism/nationalizing projects

Sarah Seidman
"Venceremos Means We Shall Overcome: The African American Freedom Struggle and the Cuban Revolution, 1959-1979."

Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci
“Conceiving National Bodies: The Trans-Pacific Politics of Birth Control and Eugenics, 1920s-1950s”

Colleen Tripp
Nineteenth century U. S. literature, adaptation, cultural studies, imperialism and empire, cultural geography

Miel Wilson
“At the Root: The Memory of Slavery in Contemporary American Literature and Culture”