American Studies
Current Ph.D. Students
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Amir Adem
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Istifaa Ahmed
Research Interests Minoritarian performance and aesthetics, Queer/trans subjectivities, The human/inhuman, The erotic/body/flesh, Fugitivity, Speculative fiction, Black feminisms, Queer of color critique, Performance studies -
Erin Aoyama
Dissertation Title: "Remembering is Just Another Way of Knowing': Place, Culture, Hauntings in the Afterlives of Japanese American Redress."Research Interests Asian American Studies, Relational Ethnic Studies, Public Humanities, 20th Century Intellectual and Cultural History, Memory Studies -
Bryant Brown
Research Interests 20th and 21st century Black diasporic literature, Experimental aesthetic praxes, Anticolonial cultural production, Timbre and sound studies, Queer theory, Abolitionist movements -
Alexander Chun
First Year StudentResearch Interests Queer of Color Critique, Asian/American studies, Media Studies, Performance Studies, Speculative Fiction, Queer Sexualities -
Looghermine Claude
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Samia Cohen
Dissertation title: "Watershed Metropolis: The Providence River and Its Lifeworlds"Research Interests Environmental humanities, Feminist science and technology studies, U.S. built environment , Infrastructures , Autoethnography -
Caroline Cunfer
Dissertation title: "Unthinking Sex: Cultural Sites of Compulsory Sexuality and the Politics of Desire"Research Interests Feminist Theory, Queer Theory, Cultural Studies/Theory, Science And Technology Studies, Critiques Of Sex-Positive Feminism, Asexuality, Politics Of Sex And Desire -
Thomas Dai
Research Interests Contemporary nonfiction and poetry, Queer theory, Asian American studies, Literature of space and place -
Liam Dean-Johnson
Research Interests Queer theory and queer of color critique, Performance studies, Affect theory, Popular music and sound studies, Metaphysics and ethical philosophy, Esoterica and the occult -
Jennifer Dolan
Dissertation title: "The Embattled Self: Willpower and Self-Making in 20th Century American Culture"Research Interests Cultural History, Self-Help Literature, Gender, Middle-Class Culture, History of Psychology, Narrative -
Isaac Essex
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Yuanyuan (Angela) Feng
Dissertation title: "Chinese/American Writers as Transpacific Public Intellectuals"Research Interests Asian American community politics and culture, Asian American literature, Chinese diaspora in the Americas -
Matthew Kateb Goldman
Dissertation title: Transiting Metropolitan "Man" : Queer Infrastructures of Human Being in the New York City SubwayResearch Interests Cities and built environments, Queer of color and minoritarian critique, Politics of knowledge, Aesthetics and the "human", Infrastructures -
Sherente Harris
Research Interests Indigenous History, Cosmology, Art, & Semiotics Twospirits Narragansett People, Lifeways, and Sovereignty. -
Kristen Iemma
Research Interests Information science, Knowledge organization, Memory studies -
Jacquelynn Jones
Research Interests 19th and 20th century visual and material culture, Black feminist theory, Racial-mixture, History of photography, Public humanities -
Makana Kushi
Research Interests Race in Hawaiʻi, Comparative ethnic studies, Indigenous education -
Allyson LaForge
Research Interests Native American and Indigenous studies, Histories of the native northeast, Decolonizing methodologies, Public humanities, Material culture -
Carolyn Lau
First Year Student -
Jonathan MacDonald
Dissertation title: "Expert Advice: Mediating Social Science's Public Aspirations, 1930-1965"Research Interests Cultural and Intellectual History, Science and Technology Studies, Media studies, The History of Social Science, Educational and Prescriptive Media -
Claritza Maldonado
Research Interests Caribbean sStudies, Afro-Latinx studies, Sound and aesthetics, Poetry and spoken word, Puerto Rico and diaspora -
Karen Marks
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Edwin Rodriguez
Research Interests Central American studies, El Salvador, Transnationalism, displacement, and migration -
Nicole Sintetos
Research Interests Asian American studies, Science, technology and society, 20th century immigration history, Environmental history, Public humanities -
Mark Tseng-Putterman
Research Interests Transnational Asian American studies, Cold War studies, U.S. militarism, social movements, comparative ethnic studies -
Katharina Weygold
Dissertation title: "African American Women and Haiti During the U.S. Occupation, 1915 – 1934"Research Interests Black Internationalism, U.S. empire, Women’s and Gender Studies, Transnational American Studies, Public Humanities -
K Yin
Research Interests Queer and Trans of Color Critique, Minoritarian Aesthetics, Asian/American Cultural Production, Affect, The Speculative, The Transpacific, Flesh, Ghosts, and Monsters