Caroline Collins, PhD, MFA

Studies in: Cultural Memory, Public History, American West, Black Pacific, Cultural Studies, American Studies, Popular Culture, Material Culture, Political Theory, Communication, Film Theory & Media Practices

Methodologies: Historical, Archival, and Textual Analysis; Visual Ethnography; Media Making as Method

Research Agenda: My work interrogates public remembrances of the American West that engage economy, political imagination, development, racial anxieties, and the American settler colonial project in ways that shape constructions of race, place, and power in the West.