Assistant Director for Graduate Engagement (2019-2021)
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As the Assistant Director for Graduate Engagement from 2019-2021, Dr. Kristen Galvin created and managed a new suite of programs and resources titled, Envision Humanities: A Graduate Student Toolkit for the 21st Century. This effort includes events, reading groups, and workshops; an annual public humanities internship program and institute; individualized consultation services; maintenance of a list of professional development resources; and the creation of an alumni mentorship network. In sum, Envision Humanities supports graduate students through the promotion of public engagement, diverse career outcomes, and experiential learning.
Examining post-1960s visual and material culture in the United States, Dr. Galvin’s interdisciplinary work explores intersections across film and media, popular music, performance, contemporary art, gender and sexuality, memory, and subcultural studies. She is also an advocate for the public humanities, doctoral reform, and fair labor practices in higher education. She has published in the Journal of Popular Music Studies, Critical Studies in Men’s Fashion, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Art Journal Open, American Book Review and in multiple edited collections. She received her Ph.D. in Visual Studies from the University of California, Irvine where she completed her dissertation examining Downtown New York’s creative explosion across cultural industries in the 1970s–1980s. Prior to her time at UF, she taught undergraduate and graduate courses in art history and film and media studies at the Savannah College of Art and Design, a teaching-intensive institution. Her current book project explores “hypernostalgia” and reconfigurations of old versus new media cultures in relation to constructions of “Americanness” in the 21st century. You can learn more about Dr. Galvin’s work on her website.