Graduate Student Appreciation Week: Rebekah Aycock

Our next AMS Graduate Student Spotlight is Rebekah Aycock! Rebekah is a 3rd-year PhD candidate researching the representations of burglary after the Civil War. Scroll through to learn more about Rebekah and their work.

Graduate and Professional Student Appreciation Week, taking place April 5–9, is an exciting initiative to raise awareness of the critical role graduate and professional students play in colleges and universities across the country.

This week we will be celebrating the of our AMS graduate students with individual posts highlighting their contributions and achievements to the program.

The Office of Graduate Studies will also host a raffle and book giveaway for students to win fun prizes! Students can click the links below to register.

Link to book giveaway 

Link to sway raffle form 

 

May be an image of 1 person and text that says 'AMS GRADUATE STUDENT APPRECATION WEEK Rebekah Aycock Rebekah is third year PhD candidate. She interested in nineteenth century queer studies and the intersections race and sexuality property crime. Her dissertation research focuses on representations burglary after the Civil War. As HASTAC scholar, Rebekah has incorporated digital humanities projects into the classes she teaches, including website and mapping projects, and is now developing DH component of her dissertation. Follow Rebekah @aycockrebekah Follow KU AMS @AmericanStuKU @KUAmericanStudies'