Assistant Instructors
Ja'nell Ajani
Doctoral Student
janell.ajani@utexas.edu |
BUR 408
Interests: Modern and Contemporary Art, Commodification, Cinema and Media Studies, Visual Culture Studies, African-American art and art of the African diaspora, Media and Performance, and Popular Culture
Holly Genovese
Doctoral Student
hollygenovese@utexas.edu |
BUR 404
Interests: prison abolition, Black literature, hip hop Studies, public art, poetics, prison memoir, southern studies. experimental form, public history
Coyote Shook
Doctoral Student
coyoteshook@utexas.edu |
BUR 408
Interests: Disability studies, environmental humanities, blue humanities/ ocean studies, creative nonfcition, climate change, bioacoustics/ sound studies, history of oceanography, marine biology, animal studies, speculative nonfiction, swamp ecosystems, comics as research.
Bahar Tahamtani
Doctoral Student
btahamtani@utexas.edu |
BUR 404
Interests: Representations of crime and violence, material objects, gender and sexuality, cultural memory, affect, digital culture.
Cooper Weissman
Doctoral Student
cooperweissman@utexas.edu |
BUR 408
Interests: Black and Indigenous ecologies; U.S. environmental history; environmental justice; histories of eugenics, racial capitalism, and settler colonialism; Black feminist theory; ecological catastrophe; climate justice; abolition and mutual aid; cultural geography
PhD Candidacy
Anneleise Azua
Doctoral Student
Interests: Folk Medicine, Oral History and Ethnography, Ethnic Studies, Latinx Studies, Anthropology, Gender Studies, higher education, health and medicine in the United States and Mexico, U.S.-Mexico Borderland History, Museum Studies, Public History
Judson Barber
Doctoral Student
Interests: Public memory, prison and carceral studies, cultural, feminist, and affective geographies, architecture and urban design, postmodernism, hyperreality, amusement, leisure, and cultures of American recreation.
Nicholas Bloom
Doctoral Student
Interests: 19th and 20th century US history; Atlantic slavery; the US South; early history of North America and the Caribbean; migration and diaspora; colonialism and modernity; critical theories of race and racism; critical theories of gender; intellectual history and political theory; radical political imaginary/the black radical tradition; Marxism; anti-colonial/postcolonial political projects; resistance literature; sports and popular music.
Zoya Brumberg
Doctoral Student
Interests: women and gender studies, Asian American studies, postcolonial studies, critical theory, architecture, visual culture, Chinese American history, Jewish Studies, old Hollywood, food
Leah Butterfield
Doctoral Student
Interests: Feminist Theory and Practice, Queer Theory, Memoir and Personal Essay, Tourism Studies, Immigration Studies, Digital Humanities
Kate Grover
Doctoral Student
Interests: Women's and gender studies, popular music studies, media studies, feminisms and feminist historiography, representation in U.S. popular culture, 20th and 21st century cultural history, rock music, historical memory, stardom and celebrity studies, cool/coolness.
Andrea Remoquillo
Doctoral Student
Interests: Asian-American studies, transnational feminism, Filipino/a postcolonial studies, Filipino/Filipino-American diaspora, gender and sexual identity formation in the contemporary U.S., popular culture studies, ethnography.
Gaila Sims
Doctoral Student
Interests: Public History, Slavery, Museums, Public Memory, African American History, Black Feminism, Museum Education, Archives
PhD Students
Stephanie Childress
Doctoral Student
stephanie.childress@utexas.edu
Interests: U.S. cultural, social, and political history; history of capitalism, left and right social movements, agriculture & environmental humanities, race and memory, racial violence, public & digital humanities, pulp and southwestern literature.
Kameron Dunn
Doctoral Student
kamerondunn@utexas.edu |
via Zoom through Calendly
Interests: aesthetics, fandom, queer theory, history of capitalism, online subcultures, digital ethnography, 한류
Odalis Garcia Gorra
Doctoral Student
Interests: Latinx Studies, digital culture, Cinema/Media Studies, Pop Culture, Religious Studies, Caribbean diaspora, brujeria, identity formation
Marco Guarino
Doctoral Student
Interests: Latin American/ American Cultural Production, Afro-Latinx Diaspora, Syncretism, History of Music Technology, Immigrant Identities, Popular Culture, Latin American Politics, U.S Foreign Policy.
Taylor Johnson Karahan
Doctoral Student
taylor.johnson@austin.utexas.edu
Interests: Women, Gender, and Sexuality studies; Indigenous studies; Anti-Colonialism; imperial conflicts; historical nationalisms; contemporary settler colonial geographies; haunting and afterlives
Whitney Shylee May
Doctoral Student
Interests: The Gothic, 19th-century horror literature and culture, monster theory, literary criticism, spatial literary studies, history of capitalism, circus and sideshow history
Giulia Oprea
Doctoral Student
Interests: Carceral studies; state power & resistance; digital culture & social control; technocapitalism; science fiction; revolution; technologies of control; abolition; race and ethnicity; class; marxism.
Henrik Schneider
Doctoral Student
Interests: Popular Culture, Prehistory, Cultural Narratives and Myths, Queer Theory, Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Film, U.S. Techno-Cultures, Science Fiction
Amanda Tovar
Doctoral Student
Interests: sexual violence, colonialism, south texas identity formations via the grapefruit, grapefruit, agruiculture, monster creation, American tween television, ancient philosophy, capitalism, sexism, gender and women's studies, diasporic studies, ethnic studies, latinx studies
Kristen Wilson
Doctoral Student
Interests: 20th century U.S. history and culture, film studies, interaction of cultural production and political power, occupation and reconstruction, cultures of scarcity and plenty, public memory, myth-making, popular culture, children's literature, hyperreality.
MA Students
Rene Arteaga
Masters Student
Interests: Media and Performance, Popular Culture, hip-hop studies, public art, Latinx studies, health and medicine, physical culture, performance studies, economics, black fugitivity, the undercommons.
Justine Frerichs
Masters Student
Interests: Environmental humanities, environmental justice, ethnic US literatures, postcolonial literature, race, climate change, food, public humanities
Michelle Mensah
Masters Student
Interests: slavery's influence on individuals through their social environment and sense of agency.
