Frankie Barrett
Graduate Student
Frances “Frankie” Barrett a Ph.D. candidate in the American Studies program at Yale University. An interdisciplinary historian, Frankie studies the history of the political economy in the 20th and 21st centuries as well as the regional histories of the U.S. South and Appalachia. Her dissertation Valuing Cheap: The Rise of the Dollar Store Economy examines the history of the southern corporations of the dollar store industry as well as the impact of these discount retailers on communities, labor, and consumption over the past century.
Frankie earned a Master’s in Southern Studies from the University of Mississippi and a B.A. in Women’s and Gender Studies from UNC Chapel-Hill.
The history of the political economy in the 20th and 21st centuries, business and labor history, American consumption, the U.S. South, Appalachia, oral history, racial capitalism, feminist theory, queer and trans studies