kdcherry@ua.edu
kdcherry@fsu.edu
Kristy Cherry-Randle is the daughter of a US Air Force retiree and has lived in Georgia, Guam, Maine, Alabama and Florida. She calls Springville, Alabama home. Kristy is currently a second year PhD student in the English Department at Florida State University. She holds a BAC in Journalism, a BA in English, and a Masters in American Studies from the University of Alabama. Her specialty area is early American literature focusing on first contact narratives exploring digital humanities methodologies. She also enjoys Civil War narratives of women who cross-dressed to fight in battle. Placing scholarship in digital mediums is one of Kristy’s passions, particularly digital interactive maps which allow more diverse information to be in conversation with static texts. Chelsea and Kristy became interested in the narrative of Cabeza de Vaca as an interactive map in a digital environment in 2014 while working on their Masters at UA.
cnharbin@ua.edu
cnharbin@ku.edu
Chelsea Harbin hails from a small town you’ve never heard of near Corpus Christi, Texas. She graduated with her BA in English from the University of Texas at San Antonio. She studied at the University of Alabama, earning a MA in American Studies where she taught a course based on her research over the television show South Park and poor white representation in United States media. She currently is preparing for her PhD candidacy exams at the University of Kansas where she is in her third year. She works as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for KU, where she teaches Introduction to American Studies. Her current research includes a wide range of topics, including the economics of drug legalization, poor whites, and the school to prison pipeline. Additionally, she is working on a digital humanities project about Indigeneity and Cabeza de Vaca in the early Americas.