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Doctoral Candidate in History & Women’s Studies

• 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