Dissertation: Television for a Better America: Public Feeling, Race, and Privatization from Sesame Street to Roots

Research Interests: Histories of Racism and Liberalism in the U.S., Cold War Culture, U.S. Popular Culture and Media Studies, Feminist Theory and Research Methods, Emotion, Affect, and Public Feeling.

Education:

• B.A. Communications, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1997
• M.A. American Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 2005
• Ph.D. Cultural Studies, UC Davis, 2016

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Fellowships, Grants, and Awards:

• Conference Travel Grant, Program in American Studies, UC Davis, 2014
• Chancellor's Teaching Fellowship, UC Davis, 2008-2009
• Tuition Scholarship, Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory, UC Humanities Research Institute, 2008
• Baxter Travel Award, American Studies Association, 2007, 2009
• Outstanding Thesis Award, KU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2005
• Davis Humanities Institute Recruitment Fellowship 2005

Publications:

• “David H. Breaux: Action for Compassion,” Boom: A Journal of California, University of California Press, Fall 2013.
• “Pepper Spray and Politics,” with Louis Warren, Boom: A Journal of California, University of California Press, Fall 2012.
• “Looking at Trash,” XCP: Streetnotes, Summer 2008.
• "Gifts and Giving" and "Heirlooms," Encyclopedia of American Material Culture, eds. Helen Sheumaker and Shirley Wajda, ABC-CLIO, 2007.

Presentations:

• "Should All Hell Break Loose?: Return and Rupture in Ester Rebeca Shapiro Rok's 'From Belarus to Bolondron.'" Nuestra America in the U.S.?: A U.S. Latino/a Studies Conference, February 2008.
• "Overwhelmed and Confounded: Historical Research in 'House on Loon Lake.'" 10th Annual Graduate Conference on History and Theory, UC Irvine, April 2007.
• "Getting to the Bottom of Things: Vernacular Historical Production in 'House on Loon Lake' and Everything Is Illuminated." UC Davis Humanities Institute Seminar, June 2006.
• "'You Can't Throw It Away': A Case Study in Heirlooms, Reciprocity, and Social Status in the United States." Graduate Student Ethnography Conference, Stony Brook University, March 2006.
• "Saving Family Artifacts" Social Science History Association Conference, Portland, OR, November 2005.