Current Graduate Student Summer Fellows

Jean Marie Christensen

Department: Art History

Expected Graduation Year: 2025

Project Title: "Bodies of the Crown: Kinship, Health, and the Construction of the Royal Body in Early Modern English Portraiture"

Kendall Dinniene

Department: English

Expected Graduation Year: 2025

Project Title: "The Fault of Our Forms: Fatness in 20th and 21st Century American Literature"

Nicolette Edwards

Department: Anthropology

Expected Graduation Year: 2025

Project Title: "Investigating Women's Provisioning Efforts in the Ethnoarchaeological Record of Central African Forest Foragers"

Javier Gonzalez

Department: Economics

Expected Graduation Year: 2026

Project Title: "Social Class Depiction in TV: Unraveling Preferences for Redistribution in Latin America"

Samantha Lagos

Department: Anthropology

Expected Graduation Year: 2026

Project Title: "Food Security in Aotearoa New Zealand c. AD 1250-1796"

Weihong Li

Department: Economics

Expected Graduation Year: 2025

Project Title: Pollution, Promotion, and Political Showcase

Yang Liu

Department: Anthropology

Expected Graduation Year: 2027

Project Title: "Preliminary Fieldwork on Urban Chinese Women's Perinatal Experiences and Perceptions of Postpartum Depression"

Carolyn Mason

Department: Anthropology

Expected Graduation Year: 2026

Project Title: "Archival Research at the Intersections: The Relevance of Cookbooks to Anthropology, History, and Health"

Lindsey McClure

Department: English

Expected Graduation Year: 2026

Project Title: "Fonts of Wisdom: Layers of Cultural Authority in Ireland's Gaelic Revival"

Laura Narvaez

Department: History

Expected Graduation Year: 2026

Project Title: "She Who Controls the Meetings: Addressing Intersectional Issues in Chicana-Led Conferences in Texas 1971-1977"

Ashton Reynolds

Department: History

Expected Graduation Year: 2025

Project Title: "Making the Strangites Normal: De-exoticizing of American Religious Outsiders in Antebellum America"

Rashida Shafiq

Department: History

Expected Graduation Year: 2026

Project Title: "From Grassroots to Global Strides: Gloria Steinem, Transnational Feminism, and the Cold War Cultural Politics, 1957-1962"