Graduate Student Bios

Elissa Branum is a PhD candidate in 19th-20th c. US History at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. She has contributed to the National Council on Public History's History at Work and the Rutgers AAUP blog. Her BA is in History from John Brown University. She earned a Gender History MS at the University of Glasgow. Her master's thesis explored gendered experiences of US religious history, using oral histories to understand contemporary purity movements in evangelicalism. Her dissertation examines race, gender, and use of the law on evangelical higher education campuses in Arkansas and Texas from 1860-1969.