Cookie Woolner

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Cookie Woolner

Doctoral Candidate in History & Women’s Studies

1029 Tisch Hall, Ann Arbor MI, 48109-1003

cwoolner@umich.edu

  • Affiliation(s)
    • Women's Studies
  • Fields of Study
    • Late 19th/early 20th C. U.S. history
    • race, gender and sexuality
    • popular performance and popular culture
  • About

    Publications:

    "American Excess: Cultural Representations of Lillian Russell in Turn-of-the-Century America," Historicizing Fat in Anglo-American Culture, ed. Elena Levy-Navarro. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2010

  • Education
    • BA, Cultural Studies & Gender Studies, Hampshire College, 1996
    • MA, Humanities, San Francisco State University, 2006
  • Grants
    • Martin Duberman Visiting Scholar, New York Public Library, 2011
    • Community of Scholars Fellowship Program, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan, 2011
    • African American Collections Fellowship, Manuscript, Archive, and Rare Book Library, Emory University, 2010
  • Presentations
    • "The Marketing of Gertrude, Ma Rainey's Prove It on Me Blues" and Dialectics of Queer Popular Culture, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, University of Massachusetts,Amherst, June 2011
    • "The Famous Lady Lovers: African-American Female Performers and the Terminology of Same-Sex Desire in the Early-Twentieth Century," New Perspectives on African American History and Culture Conference, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, February 2011
    • "Beau Brummells and Bulldaggers: African American Male Impersonators in the Early Twentieth Century," American Historical Association annual meeting, Boston, January 2011