Dana Trammel

Dana Trammel is a doctoral student whose research interests are focused on Race Studies, especially school desegregation in 90s Alabama, the history of medicine, and gender studies.  She is an avid baker, gamer, and crafter.  As a military brat, she has lives in many coastal states, with Texas being the furthest south.  Her forthcoming chapter "I'se in Town Honey, but I ain't Welcome:  Aunt Jemima and Perceptions of Black Female Bodies," will appear in Cambridge University Press' Cambridge History of Black Women in the States States, Volume 4, "Lifting As We Climb," edited by Ashley Robertson Preston and Sheena Harris.  Ms. Trammel recently presented her work, "Mass Exclusion: Body Size as a Barrier," at the UNT Graduate Student Food Symposium.