Tanya Pearson

Ph.D. Candidate (ABD)

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Tanya Pearson
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FIELDS

  • 20th-century U.S. History
  • Gender and Sexuality
  • Latin American History

EDUCATION

  • B.A., American Studies, Smith College (2016)

INTERESTS

  • Oral history
  • Archives
  • Rock History
  • 20th-century U.S. History

BACKGROUND

I curate the Women of Rock Oral History Project, a collection of digital interviews and written transcripts housed at the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College (www.womenofrock.org). I am interested in rock music and popular culture, and how political and cultural trends affect women-identified rock musicians and their access to audience. I am more generally interested in popular culture as a whole, and the cyclical trend of “women in rock” in mainstream music media. I am currently investigating the removal of nonconformist women from mainstream rock radio after the World Trade Center attack on September 11th.