Meet Our Students

Kristen Reynolds is a military brat whose family is from California by way of Mississippi and Louisiana. She earned her bachelor's in Biology (from Johnson C. Smith University…

Phoebe Young is a Saginaw Chippewa descendant from Michigan, born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and currently residing in Minneapolis.  She attended Brown University and as…

Chelsea Osademe is a native of Pine Bluff, Arkansas. She received her B.A. in English from Spelman College in 2017 and M.A. in English from Kansas State University in 2019.

Dewitt King is a PhD student in American Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is a geographer who thinks critically and carefully about race, space, place, and power.

Ayaan Natala is a research-scholar-activist. She double majored in Political Science and American Studies with a concentration in Human Rights and Humanitarianism at…

Kaylen James graduated with a BA in American Studies and an MA in Organizational Leadership, Policy and Development, both from the University of Minnesota.

Ashton Dunkley attended Temple University where she double-majored in History and Anthropology and earned a minor in Italian.

Lennixx-Nickolai Bad Moccasin attended the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities where he double-majored in Studies in Cinema & Media Culture and American Indian Studies, with…

Jonathan Borja double majored in Speech Pathology & Audiology and Social Welfare & Justice at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

As an undergraduate, Hilary Abe (B.A. Dartmouth College) majored in Native American Studies, with a concentration in Film Studies.

Demiliza Saramosing is Bisayan (American) and was raised on the island of O‘ahu in the ahupua‘a and urban, majority working-class and immigrant city of Kalihi.

Jonnelle Walker completed her undergraduate degree in American Studies at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities.

Khoi Nguyen received an MA in Women’s Studies focusing on queer Asian American literature at Southern Connecticut State University, and a BA in English at Fairfield University…

Kiara Padilla was an undergraduate student at California State University Northridge. She is a double major in Psychology and Chicana/o Studies.

Music journalist turned PhD student Matthew Tchepikova-Treon is particularly fascinated by how disenfranchised artists, laborers, and communities began participating in…

"What happened during Japanese American incarceration is not coincidental at all—it's just how US settler colonialism has always and continues to function," says Hana Maruyama…

Thomas X. Sarmiento earned his PhD in 2014 with his dissertation The Heartland of Empire: Queer Cultural Imaginaries of Filipinas/os in the Midwest. He is currently an…

Jason Ruiz is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame, where he is affiliated faculty with the Program in Gender Studies and the Institute for…