Kayla Jordan PhD Student

Specialty

• United States History
• Southern History

Research Interests

• Late 19th and 20th Century U.S. History
• Southern Cultural History
• Southern Ghostlore and Folklore
• History of Death in America
• History and Memory Studies

Current Projects

• I am currently researching the use of Southern ghostlore in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to illustrate its use as a form of social control through its deliberate portrayals of death/dying and historical events.