Committee

Conference Committee

Chair: Irene Garza
Research interests: comparative racial and ethnic history, Chicana/o Studies, cultural citizenship, social movements, civil rights, immigrant rights.

Keynote Committee
Andi Gustavson
Research interests: documentary expression, photography and photo-journalism, and the rhetoric of social action.

John Cline
Research Interests: Popular music, Cultural Studies as Method, the American avante garde

Katherine Feo
Research Interests: graphic design, dress, and gender & the body

CFP/ Panel Committee

Marvin Bendele
Research interests: 19th-century American religion, psychology, South Texas history, and water control in the west.

Rebecca D'Orsogna
Research Interests: gender history, World War II, psychology and culture, popular culture

Stephanie Kohlberg
Research interests: place and popular culture, modernity, representations of urban and suburban life, and aesthetics.

Social Chair Josh Holland
Research Interests: Intellectual History, American Education, History of Social Movements, History of Alternative Education, Subjectivity

Program Committee
Carly Kocurek
Research Interests: Media Studies, Internet Culture, Popular Culture, Queer Theory

Anne Gessler
Research Interests: college radio, women in early radio

Hospitality & Transportation Committee
Jeannette Vaught
Research Interests: the American West, Cormac McCarthy, masculinity, horse culture

Andrew Friedenthal
Research Interests: Film studies, comic books, American presidential history

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For more information or any questions please feel free to contact committee chair: Irene Garza or send general inquiries to utamst08@gmail.com