Rudolph and Louise Fishel Endowed Scholarship History and Art History

Rachel Bodily Birch is a second-year History Ph.D. student at George Mason University. She earned a Master’s degree in American History from George Mason University and a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Brigham Young University-Provo. Her historical scholarship centers on American religions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries focusing on Western American women’s religious print culture. Rachel is currently an affiliate at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, and her practical experiences draw from digital public history work through archival work, data analysis, and historical podcast creation.