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
Judson Barber
Doctoral Student
jgbarber@utexas.edu |
BUR 404
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.
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
Holly Genovese
Doctoral Student
hollygenovese@utexas.edu |
BUR 408
Interests: prison abolition, Black literature, hip hop Studies, public art, poetics, prison memoir, southern studies. experimental form, public history
Andrea Remoquillo
Doctoral Student
atremo@utexas.edu |
BUR 408
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.
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
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.
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
Anna Lyon
Doctoral Student
Interests: US cultural history, medical history, bioethics, reproductive technologies, critical race studies, queer studies, materialist feminism, kinship
PhD Students
Stephanie Childress
Doctoral Student
stephanie.childress@utexas.edu
Interests: identity formation and the effect on arts, culture, and politics; and transnational iterations of Texan literature to question issues of gender, power, and fandom through the methods of materiality, oral history, epistolarity, and digital humanities.
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
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
Kerry Scroggie
Doctoral Student
Interests: cultural implications of genetic science and genealogy in (re)producing white, colonial, and heteronormative discourses of family and kinship.
Coyote Shook
Doctoral Student
Interests: Disability studies, environmental humanities, blue humanities/ ocean studies, climate change, bioacoustics/ sound studies, history of oceanography, marine biology, animal studies, speculative nonfiction, histories of environmental science, swamp studies, "Florida studies," comics as research.
Gaila Sims
Doctoral Student
Interests: Public History, Slavery, Museums, Public Memory, African American History, Black Feminism, Museum Education, Archives
Bahar Tahamtani
Doctoral Student
Interests: Representations of crime and violence, material objects, gender and sexuality, cultural memory, affect, digital culture.
Amanda Tovar
Doctoral Student
Interests: intersection of sexual assault and colonialism in South Texas and the ancient philosophies that have always existed in practice without a name amongst Xicanx communities
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
Kameron Dunn
Masters Student
kamerondunn@utexas.edu |
via Zoom through Calendly
Interests: aesthetics, fandom, queer theory, history of capitalism, online subcultures, digital ethnography, 한류
Michelle Mensah
Masters Student
Interests: slavery's influence on individuals through their social environment and sense of agency.
