PhD Student Bios

Rachel Anne Whyte

Rachel Anne Whyte

Rachel Anne Whyte

U.S. History: Indigenous History, Public and Digital History, Museum Studies

Rachel Whyte is a second year PhD student in History at George Mason University. Her research interests include Indigenous studies, with concentrations in digital and public history. She is currently a Graduate Research Assistant on the Religious Ecologies project at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media.

Rachel received her MA from the University of Central Florida in Anthropology with a concentration in Archaeology. Her research focuses on finding new ways to present information and artifacts housed in museum collections to the public, as well as finding new research methods that are less invasive. 

Education

M.A. Anthropology, University of Central Florida, 2020

B.A. Anthropology and Geography, Coastal Carolina University, 2018

B.A. History, Coastal Carolina University, 2018