Graduate Student List
Assistant Instructors
Eric Covey
Doctoral Student
ericcovey@utexas.edu | BUR 436B
Interests
Western Colorado, the railroad, foodways, whiteness studies, U.S. imperialismAndrew 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 CultureJennifer Kelly
Doctoral Student
jennifer.kelly@utexas.edu | Cafe Medici on Guadalupe
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, tourismLily Laux
Doctoral Student
lilylaux@gmail.com | SAC Starbucks
Interests
public education, political theory, sociology of race and racism, and neoliberalismLisa Powell
Doctoral Student
Interests
cultural geography, food, agriculture, environmental history, sustainability, national parks, the American South, Appalachia, pumpkinsElissa Underwood
Doctoral Student
elissau@utexas.edu | Littlefield Patio Cafe
Interests
critical prison studies, food studies, surveillance studies, critical race theory, urban studiesPhD Candidacy
Philis Barragan
Doctoral Student
Interests
Texas-Mexico Border, Childhood Studies, Children's Literature, Women's Studies, United States Social and Cultural History, Latino LiteratureMarvin Bendele
Doctoral Student
Interests
19th century religion; psychology and the law; South Texas history; foodwaysSean Cashbaugh
Doctoral Student
Interests
Cultures of Radicalism, Political Aesthetics, Popular Culture, Cinema Studies, Science Fiction, Underground ArtEllen Cunningham-Kruppa
Doctoral Student
eckruppa@utexas.edu | BUR 386
Interests
Cultural Policy Studies, cultural memory, history of technology, material 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.Brendan C Gaughen
Doctoral Student
brendanisgone@gmail.com | BUR 436B
Interests
leisure, collecting, material culture, popular cultureAnne Gessler
Doctoral Student
Interests
cooperative development, gentrification, urban social movementsAndrea D Gustavson
Graduate student
Interests
visual culture, memory studies, vernacular photography, media studies, Twentieth-century American literatureJoshua Holland
Doctoral Student
Interests
Intellectual History, American Education, History of Social Movements, History of Alternative Education, SubjectivityAndrew Jones
Doctoral Student
andrewjones@utexas.edu | BUR 436
Interests
Photography, American Landscape, Road Culture, Postmodernity, the American Avant-GardeJacqueline Smith
Doctoral Student
jacquesmith@utexas.edu | BUR 436B
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
Doctoral Student
Interests
television studies, new media and digital culture, popular music, social movements, radical politics, 20th century American historyAndrew Gansky
Doctoral Student
Interests
Photography and visual media, history of medicine, transformational bodies, archives, feminism and gender studiesSusan Quesal
Doctoral Student
susan.quesal@utexas.edu | BUR 436B
Interests
urban studies, space and place, oral history, 20th century literatureEmily Roehl
Doctoral Student
Interests
cultural geography, visual anthropology, performance studies, critical pedagogy, material culture, U.S. tourismKirsten Ronald
Doctoral Student
kirsten.ronald@utexas.edu | BUR 436B
Interests
Transportation and culture, spatial justice, social networks, the service industry, technology, bicycle culture, space and place, the built environment, urban planning, social movements.Edwin Whitewolf
Doctoral Student
Interests
Cinema Studies and Media Studies, Native American Studies, Critical Race Theory, Pop Culture and Spectacle, National Memory, 19th Century American HistoryMA Students
Natalie Zelt
Masters Student
nzelt@utexas.edu | BUR 436B
