Pedagogy Lab Fellows

Our summer Pedagogy Lab Fellowship brings together a diverse cohort of graduate students, early career scholars, and non-traditional educators to create open educational resources in a collaborative and supportive environment.

Our 2023 Pedagogy Lab theme is Horror, Haunting, and History.

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Summer 2023 Pedagogy Lab Fellows

May Santiago

May Santiago is a cultural studies scholar and film essayist. She was raised between Puerto Rico and Florida and is currently based in Washington, DC. She is pursuing her Doctorate of Philosophy in the Cultural Studies program at George Mason University. Her work focuses on Puerto Rican cinema, as well as the intersection of horror, queer, and feminist studies. She has presented work at Final Girls Berlin Film Festival, Orlando Film Festival, and Brooklyn Women’s Film Festival. She writes, edits, and hosts a horror studies podcast named Horrorspiria. She also recently co-edited an anthology, Amazon: At the Intersection of Culture and Capital, that features an essay she wrote titled “Virtuous Viewing & Amazon Studios.”

Samantha White

Samantha White (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Sport Studies at Manhattanville College. Her teaching and research interests include historical, social, and cultural approaches to the study of sport, health, and outdoor recreation. She is particularly interested in histories of Black sports, health, and outdoor recreation. Her current project examines Black girls’ relationship to sports and physical culture in the early 20th century. Her other project explores historical media representations of Black outdoor recreation. Her work can be found in Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, The Journal of Sport History, Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature, and Women's Running. She received her PhD from Rutgers University-Camden, MEd from the University of Minnesota, and BA from Clark Atlanta University. She is also an alumna of the International Summer School for Sport Researchers at the Universite de Paris Est.

Ricardo Millhouse

A spatial ethnographer, Ricardo’s research interests include Black queer geographies, qualitative research methods, interiority, sensation, and design justice. Currently, Ricardo is writing a book that explores spatial deprivation, sensation, and economic deprivation in Brooklyn, New York. Ricardo’s book project focuses primarily on Black queer people and how and to what extent Black queer placemaking occurs in Brooklyn. Ricardo is interested in collaborative and community-focused research projects that are focused on social equity, methodology, gender, sexuality, design, and sensation. Ricardo’s work can be found in Feminist Pedagogy (Cal Poly), Journal of LGBT Studies (UCLA) and Social Theory (University of Kentucky).

Shu Wan

Shu Wan is currently matriculated as a doctoral student in history at the University at Buffalo. As a digital and disability historian, he serves in the editorial team of Digital Humanities Quarterly and Nursing Clio.

Kayley DeLong

Kayley DeLong is a PhD Candidate at Ohio State University in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department. Her current work brings together feminist disability studies and carceral studies in order to pursue a historical inquiry into the relationship between former mental institutions and occult dark tourism. Research, community, and anti-ableist pedagogy are the backbone of her devotion to studying, sharing, and sitting with marginalized histories. During the past four years she has been teaching undergraduate courses as a Department teaching associate. She has taught courses applying a feminist lens on popular culture, health and inequality, and writing. DeLong is excited to bring these experiences to the table as a member of the 2023 BBQ+ Pedagogy Fellowship cohort.