Frankie Barrett

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Graduate Student
frankie.barrett@yale.edu

Frances “Frankie” Barrett will confer her Ph.D. in American Studies this December. Frankie is currently a PostDoctoral Fellow at UNC Chapel Hill’s Arts and Humanities Grant Studio. 

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 Economyexamines 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