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
talmujah@umich.edu
Fields of study: Arab American literature, Arab American studies, Arab American cultural production, contemporary Arab poetry, Arab poetics, cultural theory, post-colonial studies, ethnic studies, women of color feminisms, Middle Eastern narratives, diaspora studies, performance studies.
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
kbrowns@umich.edu
Fields of study: Transnational anti-fascism and networks of solidarity around the Spanish Civil War; abolitionist studies, critical university studies
hechen@umich.edu
Fields of study: Asian American history to 1940; histories of sexuality in North America; queer of color critique
lilyjc@umich.edu
Fields of study: museum studies, memory studies, anti/post/decolonial studies, U.S. imperialism, Indigeneity, women of color feminisms, queer and trans of color critique.
sduran@umich.edu
Fields of Study: Arab and Muslim American Studies; Women of Color Feminisms; Film and Genre Studies; Digital and New Media Studies; History of Sexuality
jlehrhar@umich.edu
Fields of Study: Ethnonationalism, digital media studies, social networks, visual cultures, and Asian American studies.
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: American Religion, Carceral State, Critical Muslim Studies, Policing, Visibly Muslim students, Ethnography, Archival Research
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: U.S. sub/urban history, im/migration history, Asian American studies, Latina/o/x studies, comparative/relational ethnic studies.
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: Anishinaabe, Native American, Indigenous Studies; Museum Studies; Institutional Memory
kylelind@umich.edu
Fields of study: digital studies, black cultural studies, feminist and queer studies, cultural criticism
wigginsj@umich.edu
Fields of study: Chicana/o/x studies, Latina/o/x studies; performance studies; ethnography; Latina feminist phenomenology; humor; social movements & activism; oral history & testimonio
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
navapau@umich.edu
Fields of Study: Chicana/o art, Latina/o studies, Mexican Chicago, Feminist Archival Studies, Queer Latinidad, Visual Culture
jessien@umich.edu
Fields of study: Pacific Island Studies, CHamoru Studies, Women and Gender Studies, Post/Decolonialism, ethnography, history, Native and Indigenous Studies, Queer and Trans Studies.
mnimkarn@umich.edu
Fields of study: Asian American Studies, identity and community formation, ethnography, social movements, women and gender studies, queer of color critique.
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.
oxandab@umich.edu
Fields of study: Cultural Studies, white working-class identity and community formation, Right-wing ideologies, and Media Studies.
opareja@umich.edu
Fields of study: Latinx conservatism, Mexican Americans in the Republican Party during the 20th century
arpg@umich.edu
Fields of Study: Latinx Studies, Critical Food Studies, Cuban and Caribbean Studies, Migration, Labor, Nationalism, Diaspora, Restaurants and Food Businesses, Politics.
meganrim@umich.edu
Fields of study: How people of color in contemporary social movements utilize media and digital technologies.
wruiz@umich.edu
Fields of study: Queer and Trans Studies, Critical Theory, Ethnic Studies, and Performance Studies.
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.
ctraviol@umich.edu
Fields of Study: Indigenous studies, Indigenous women history, Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), American Indian boarding schools, oral history, decolonization.
vivianve@umich.edu
Fields of study: Chicano/Chicana studies, Latino/Latina Studies, American Identity, Identity and belonging, State Violence, Decolonization, Death and Immigration
kpwhite@umich.edu
Research and Teaching Interests: Transgender studies, queer/trans of color critique, transnational American studies, Latinx studies, Cuba and the Caribbean, life writing (testimonio, memoir, autoethnography), critical ethnography.
