Rebecca Hill

Rebecca Hill has a PhD in American Studies from the University of Minnesota (2000). She is on the national council of the American Studies Association and is the past-president of the Southeastern American Studies Association. In her research, Hill draws on historical, literary and ethnographic methods to study the interactions of social movements, popular culture and the state. Her work explores both politics within popular cultural spaces and the way that popular culture and literary forms influence political organizations and ideologies.

Email: rhill54@kennesaw.edu

 

MAST Courses Taught:

• AMST 6201: History and Culture of the Americas
• AMST 6401: Literature and Culture of the Americas
• AMST 7000: American Studies Scholarship
• AMST 7100: American Studies Methods
• AMST 7230: Public History and Culture
• AMST 7300: Cities, Suburbs and Countryside (as Prison Studies)
• AMST 7520: US in the Transnational Context

 

Select Publications:

• Teaching American Studies: State of the Classroom as State of the Field, ed, with
  Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello and Joseph Entin, University of Kansas Press, 2021
  
  
• “Capital or the Capitol: The Hunger Games Fandom and Neoliberal Populism,”
  American Studies 2018
  
  
• “The Common Enemy is the Boss and the Inmate: Police and Prison Guard Unions
  in New York in the 1970s-1980s,” Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the
  Americas, Fall 2011
  
  
• Men, Mobs and Law: Anti-Lynching and Labor Defense in U.S. Radical History, Duke
  University Press, 2009