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Graduate Students

MA in Public Humanities:

Ph.D Students

Jin Suk Bae
"Remigrating to the Global City: New York Koreans from Latin America"

Horace Ballard
Histories of race and romanticism; Nineteenth century American art; art in the African diaspora; Beat Generation

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

Ashley Bowen-Murphy
History of public health; nineteenth century U.S. history and culture; public humanities; Civil War veterans

Sarah Brown
First Year Student

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
“Cambodian Donut Shops and the Negotiation of Identity in Los Angeles”

Sean Dinces
"Bull Markets: Power, Place, and Professional Sport at the End of the Twentieth Century"

Pier Dominguez
"Neoliberalism's Soapy Subjects: Melodrama and Queer Racial Affect in Screen Cultures"

Christopher Elias
Twentieth century U.S. history; American culture; masculinity, gender and sexuality

Samuel Franklin
Twentieth-century cultural and intellectual history; the built environment; cultural institutions; heritage and memory

Brent Fujioka
"Four-Color Creatures: Monstrosity in American Comic Books and Japanese Manga, 1938-Present."

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
Gender and sexuality; queer theory; performance studies; phenomenology; visual culture; fat studies

Cristina Kim
First Year Student

Heather Lee
"Consuming Labor: Migration and Mobility of Chinese Restaurant Workers in New York City, 1893-1949"

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

Crystal Ngo
Museums; material culture; visual culture; the Vietnam War; forced migration

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

Daniel Platt
First Year Student

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

Annette Rodriguez
"The Lynching of Mexicans in the United States: Making Visible U.S. Terrorscapes"

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

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

Micah Salkind
"Do You Remember House? Technology, Mediation and The Erasing of Black Musical Community, 1975-1996"

Robyn Schroeder
"Federal Selves: Memory & The Constitution, 1820-2010"

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

Colleen Tripp
"Pacific Sensations: The Making of an American West and Pacific Orientalism in U.S. Print Culture"

Miel Wilson
"At the Root(s): Genealogy and Slavery from Alex Haley’s Roots to Finding Oprah’s Roots"

Elizabeth Wolfson
Transnational U.S. culture and history; U.S./Turkey relations; visual culture; history of photography; women's history

Sarah Yahm
Twentieth century social and cultural history; ethnographic methods and multimedia; public space; participatory curatorial practice