Graduate Students in the American Culture doctoral program conduct interdisciplinary research on a wide range of American studies topics in consultation with dedicated faculty advisors drawing on various disciplines, including history, English,women's studies, law, religious studies, media studies, museum studies, psychology, medicine, art history, and architecture, among many others.
American Culture: Graduate Students
gberrym@umich.edu
Fields of study: Black feminisms, cultural studies, pop music studies, and the Obama era
lbrar@umich.edu
Fields of study: Asian American Studies, Migrant Labor, Critical Food Studies, and Women of Color Feminisms
mbrier@umich.edu
Fields of study: History of anti-discrimination law and colorblind rhetoric in the US; political technologies; intellectual history
kbrowns@umich.edu
Fields of study: Contribute to the recovery of marginalized Spanish Civil War writers and place them in transnational networks of cultural exchange and solidarity.
casidyc@umich.edu
Fields of Study: Black Girlhood, Black Feminism and Black Women's History, Internet and Digital Studies, Tech History
hechen@umich.edu
Fields of study: Asian American history and culture; critical mixed race studies; and queer of color critique
sduran@umich.edu
Fields of Study: Arab and Muslim American Studies; Film Studies; Women of Color Feminisms; Post/Decolonial Studies; Race, Gender, Sexuality and U.S. Film Industries
duric@umich.edu
Fields of Study: Religion, law, migration, social activism, undocumented youth, the sanctuary movement, Central American, and Chicana/o studies.
jlehrhar@umich.edu
Fields of Study: Ethnonationalism, digital media studies, social networks, visual cultures, and Asian American studies.
belhadi@umich.edu
Fields of study: Arab and Muslim American studies, media and cultural studies, women of color feminisms, race and racialization, representations of visibly Muslim women.
hagmagid@umich.edu
Fields of study: Historical impact of Muslim-Americans on the fabric of American culture, concentrating on the racial, class, and sectarian differences that made up 20th-century Muslim-American communities.
cahsu@umich.edu
Fields of study: media and cultural studies, Asian American studies, Internet and digital studies, film studies, contemporary literary fiction.
hmelisa@umich.edu
Fields of study: Ethnographic Writing, Arab & Muslim American Studies, Media & Surveillance Studies, Representations of Visibly Muslim Women, Civil Rights & Social Activism, Race + Racialization of Muslim Americans, FBI/JTTF, Education Policy, Human Rights Violation.
iinatty@umich.edu
Fields of study: Literary and critical food studies in the Global South, continental philosophy, queer studies, and social change.
danjin@umich.edu
Fields of study: urban history, small cities, Latina/o/x Studies, Puerto Rican Studies, Asian American Studies, migration, race and ethnicity.
cejj@umich.edu
Fields of study: Memory Studies, Public History, Oral History, Visual Culture, Material Culture, Museum Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, Archives.
pruneah@umich.edu
Fields of study: Critical Food Studies, Critical Race Theory, Migrant Studies, and Diaspora Studies
adrking@umich.edu
Fields of study: Black Trans Studies, Trans and Queer of Color Critique, Popular Culture Studies, Black Gender and Sexuality Studies
lerinl@umich.edu
Fields of study: Native American/ Indigenous studies; environmental/ climate humanities, science, and culture; Indigenous and environmental futurities; (de)colonial imaginations; place-making; literary and historical studies; visual culture
kylelind@umich.edu
Fields of study: digital studies, black cultural studies, feminist and queer studies, cultural criticism
tlombre@umich.edu
Fields of study: 19th and 20th-century cultural history of African Americans in the mid-west, Harlem Renaissance, Jazz history and culture, Black music, and community development.
amishkin@umich.edu
Fields of Study: Intersections of White supremacy, Zionism, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia; Palestinian solidarity movements in the United States; Self-narrative and activist identity development
naemily@umich.edu
Fields of Study: African American literature, visual culture, American slavery, memory, museums
navapau@umich.edu
Fields of Study: Chicana/o art, Latina/o studies, Mexican Chicago, Feminist Archival Studies, Queer Latinidad, Visual Culture
kateoco@umich.edu
Fields of study: Disability studies; 19th and 20th century US; Institutionalization; History of Childhood and Youth; History of Medicine; Migration & Industrialization on Detroit/Canada border.
chloeper@umich.edu
Fields of study: Digital Studies, gender studies, cultural studies, and social media / online communities.
meganrim@umich.edu
Fields of study: How people of color in contemporary social movements utilize media and digital technologies.
juanrod@umich.edu
Fields of study: 20th-century African-American history and culture, the cultural Cold War, proletarian fiction and poetry
wruiz@umich.edu
Fields of study: Queer and Trans Studies, Critical Theory, Ethnic Studies, and Performance Studies.
csalman@umich.edu
Fields of Study: Digital studies, unemployment and labor (formal and informal), critiques of capitalism, and racial capitalism.
jaslsing@umich.edu
Fields of Study: Sikh diaspora, activism and subjectivities in the post-9/11 era, transnational narratives, feminist and queer theories, digital assemblages, and community development.
kyera@umich.edu
Fields of study: Black women’s bodies and diaspora.
hanahsti@umich.edu
Fields of study: Digital Studies, Cultural Studies, New Media, Far-right ideologies, and Extremism
aurelis@umich.edu
Troncoso’s fields of study include intersectionalities of race, gender, (queer) sexuality, Afro-Latinidad in the Caribbean and the United States, transnational Black feminism, queer and trans theory, and African Diaspora religions. Her dissertation project focuses on the experiences of LGBTQ practitioners in Santería and Espiritismo in Puerto Rico and how practitioners negotiate race, nationality, queerness and transness within sacred spaces and beyond.
kpwhite@umich.edu
Fields of Study: Trans and Queer of Color Critique, Cuban and Caribbean Studies, Ethnographic Writing"
wigginsj@umich.edu
Fields of study: Chicana/o Studies, Latina/o Studies; Performance Studies; Latina Feminist Phenomenology; Social Movements & Activism; Oral History/Testimonio, Ethnography
