Assistant Instructors
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.
Zoya Brumberg
Doctoral Student
Interests: women and gender studies, Asian American studies, postcolonial studies, critical theory, the history of the left, museums, visual culture, science fiction, Marxism
Leah Butterfield
Doctoral Student
l.butterfield@utexas.edu |
BUR 404
Interests: Feminist Theory and Practice, Queer Theory, Memoir and Personal Essay, Tourism Studies, Immigration Studies, Digital Humanities
Kate Grover
Doctoral Student
kategrover@utexas.edu |
BUR 408
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.
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
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.
Christine Castro
Doctoral Student
Interests: Agricultural Labor Movements; Violence and incarceration in rural spaces; Race and capitalism; Chicanx/Latinx Studies
Caroline Johnson
Doctoral Student
Interests: U.S. cultural and social history; popular culture; women’s and gender history; new labor history, history of aviation, images and visual culture, history of photography; comics and political cartoons, adolescent and youth culture
Kerry Knerr
Doctoral Student
Interests: Food studies, cocktail culture, economic history and geography, the erotics of consumption, representations of cannibalism, and affect and embodiment
Joshua Kopin
Doctoral Student
Interests: 20th century cultural history, comics studies, affect studies, popular cultural studies, American religious history, political art, historiography, fame, men's style, writing pedagogy
Anna Lyon
Doctoral Student
Interests: US cultural history, medical history, reproductive technologies, critical race studies, queer studies, materialist feminism
Robert Oxford
Doctoral Student
Interests: South Texas fracking communities, ethnography, eco-critisism, petrol-politics, neoliberalism, and climate justice.
Edwin Whitewolf
Doctoral Student
Interests: Cinema Studies and Media Studies, Native American Studies, Museum Studies, Critical Race Theory, Pop Culture and Spectacle, National Memory, 19th Century American History
Natalie Zelt
Doctoral Student
Interests: contemporary art of the United States, photography and its histories, critical race and gender studies, American cultural history, visual culture studies, material culture studies, curatorial practice
PhD Students
Ja'nell Ajani
Doctoral Student
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
Interests: Incarceration, social movement history, African American history, black power, southern studies, prison literature, and creative nonfiction.
Coyote Shook
Doctoral Student
Interests: Disability studies, ghost studies and occultism, crip hauntology, dark tourism, death and dying in American culture, necropolitics, history of tuberculosis in the American West, Marxist and labor theory.
Gaila Sims
Doctoral Student
Interests: Public History, Slavery, Museums, Public Memory, African American History, Black Feminism, Museum Education, Archives
MA Students
Kameron Dunn
Masters Student
Interests: Internet Studies, online subcultures, fandom studies, Digital Humanities, queer theory, posthumanism, rural studies, late 20th-21st century literature
Taylor Johnson Karahan
Masters Student
Interests: Pop Culture and Media Studies; Women, Gender, and Sexuality studies; Indigenous studies; Anti-Colonialism; imperial conflicts; historical nationalisms; contemporary settler colonial geographies; youth culture
Kristen Wilson
Masters 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.
