Dr. Samantha Vandermeade

Dr. Samantha L. Vandermeade is an interdisciplinary scholar in the department of American Cultural Studies at the University of Wyoming. Her research examines rhetorics of belonging, citizenship, whiteness, femininity, racism, and anti-racism among grassroots social movements in the 20th and 21st century United States. She has researched and written about pro- and anti-immigrants' rights movements, feminist and antifeminist movements, Indigenous and transnational feminisms, political rhetorics surrounding transgender rights, queer labor organizing, U.S. rural cultures, and feminist pedagogies.
 
Sam’s publications on these subjects include an article titled "The (White) Child and the Dustin Inman Society: American Ethnonationalism, Masculine Protectionism, and Racialized Citizenship" and a book chapter titled “The Ally’s Tools: Wielding Gendered and Racialized Power within Antiracist Praxis." She has authored a chapter in, and co-edited, a collection of essays titled Teaching Transnational: Meanings, Methods, and Experiences, and she has a monograph under development. 
 
In addition to her work as a scholar and a researcher, Dr. Vandermeade also thoroughly enjoys teaching undergraduate and graduate courses at all levels. These courses include: AMST 1080: Introduction to Gender and Women’s Studies; AMST 2010: Introduction to American Studies; AMST 3600: Institutional Violence; AMST 4500: Wyoming, Race, and the Archive; and AMST 4610/5610: Rural Subcultures.