Frankie Barrett
Graduate School Student
Frances Barrett received a B.A. in Women’s and Gender Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2014 and a M.A. in Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi in 2019. Her M.A. thesis, “A Bargain at Any Cost: The Rise of Dollar General,” explores the history and social implications of the dollar store industry.
Identity and regional studies, globalization, social movements, the history of the political economy in 20th and 21st centuries, spatiality, queer and feminist theory