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Mariana Brandman Office: Phone: Email Interests:

Twentieth-century US history; women and gender; lesbian and gay history; race and ethnicity; mass culture, humor, leisure, and entertainment; consumerism; public history

 

PhD'23 (US History), University of Chicago

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Twentieth-century US history; women and gender; lesbian and gay history; race and ethnicity; mass culture, humor, leisure, and entertainment; consumerism; public history

DISSERTATION

"Take Back the Mic: The Rise of Feminist Stand-Up Comedy in American Culture."

CURRENT POSITION

Curator, Massachusetts Women's History Center (formerly Suffrage100MA)

NEWS

—2020-2022 Hanna Holborn Gray Graduate Student Fellow at the University of Chicago D'Angelo Law Library
—2020-2022 Predoctoral Fellow in Women's History at the National Women's History Museum
—Historians Garner Teaching Prizes