Steven Hoelscher, Chair
Burdine 437, Mailcode B7100, Austin, TX 78712 • 512-471-7277
Graduate Student List
PhD Candidacy
Marvin Bendele
Doctoral Student
Interests
19th century religion; psychology and the law; South Texas history; foodwaysEric Covey
Doctoral Student
Interests
Western Colorado, the railroad, foodways, whiteness studies, U.S. imperialismRebecca D'Orsogna
Assistant Instructor, Doctoral Student
rdorsogna@utexas.edu | BUR 436
Interests
yoga in the United States, consumer culture, popular culture, and Asian American studiesAndrew J Friedenthal
Doctoral Student
andrewfriedenthal@gmail.com | BUR 436
Interests
Comic Books, Tourism, Amusement Parks/Theming/Immersive Environments, Theatre,Performance Studies, American Cold War Social & Popular CultureIrene Garza
Doctoral Student
irene.garza@utexas.edu | BUR 437
Interests
Latina/o Studies, Borderland studies, Militarism, War & U.S. empire, Transnationalism, Critical Race Theory, 20th century immigration and migration, comparative raccial and ethnic history of the U.S.Andrea D Gustavson
Graduate student
Interests
visual culture, memory studies, vernacular photography, media studies, Twentieth-century American literatureThomas M Hackett
Assistant Instructor, Doctoral Student
tmhackett@mindspring.com | UA-9 (2609 University Ave)
Interests
Play, sports, journalism, media, film, photography, literature, art, urban and rural lifeJoshua Holland
Doctoral Student
Interests
Intellectual History, American Education, History of Social Movements, History of Alternative Education, SubjectivityAndrew Jones
Assistant Instructor, Doctoral Student
andrewjones@utexas.edu | BUR 436
Interests
Photography, American Landscape, Road Culture, Postmodernity, the American Avant-GardeJennifer Kelly
Doctoral Student
Interests
comparative colonial histories, postcolonial feminist theory, critical race theory, queer criticism and theory, U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, religious and secular Zionism in the U.S., carceral states, militarization, tourismKatherine Kelly
Doctoral Student
Interests
Design history and design studies, material culture, fashion history, exhibition design and rhetoric, early 20th century cultural history, home and personal organization in the late 20th centuryLily Laux
Doctoral Student
Interests
public education, political theory, sociology of race and racism, and neoliberalismRebecca Onion
Assistant Instructor, Doctoral Student
rebeccaonion@gmail.com | Cafe Medici (2222 B Guadalupe Street)
Interests
childhood studies, environment and technology, modernity, popular cultureThesis title: "Sled Dog Stories: Domestication, Masculinity, and Nationhood in Alaska, 1898-1925"Lisa Powell
Doctoral Student
Interests
cultural geography, food, agriculture, environmental history, sustainability, national parks, the American South, Appalachia, pumpkinsJacqueline Smith
Doctoral Student
Interests
Critical Race Theory, Gender Studies, 20th Century Photography, 20th Century African-American History, and Media StudiesJeannette Vaught
Doctoral Student
Interests
Western American history and iconography, science studies and the history of veterinary and human medicine, animal studies, food studies, literature and filmPhD Students
Carrie Andersen
Masters Student
Interests
television studies, new media and digital culture, popular music, social movements, radical politics, 20th century American historyPhilis Barragan
Doctoral Student
Interests
Texas-Mexico Border, Childhood Studies, Children's Literature, Women's Studies, United States Social and Cultural History, Latino LiteratureSean Cashbaugh
Doctoral Student
Interests
Cultures of Radicalism, Political Aesthetics, Popular Culture, Cinema Studies, Science Fiction, Underground ArtEllen Cunningham-Kruppa
Doctoral Student
Interests
Cultural Policy Studies, cultural memory, history of technology, material cultureSusan Quesal
Doctoral Student
Interests
urban studies, space and place, oral history, 20th century literatureEmily Roehl
Doctoral Student
Interests
19th and 20th century American literature, regionalism in literature and contemporary art, performance theory, theories and experiences of space and temporality, critical pedagogy, material culture, U.S. tourism, visual studiesKirsten Ronald
Doctoral Student
Interests
bicycle culture, gender, technology, transportation, urban and place studiesElissa Underwood
Doctoral Student
Interests
critical prison studies, food studies, surveillance studies, critical race theory, urban studiesMA Students
Scott Pryor
Masters Student
