Rachel Anne Whyte

Graduate Teaching Assistant

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

Rachel Whyte is a fourth-year PhD student in History at George Mason University. Her research interests include Indigenous studies, with a focus on digital and public history. She is currently a Graduate Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Global History and a Graduate Affiliate at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM). Rachel was previously a Graduate Research Assistant on the Religious Ecologies project at RRCHNM for three years.

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.

Grants and Fellowships

2025 recipient of the Rudolph and Louise Fishel Endowed Scholarship

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

Recent Presentations

American History Association (2025)

"A Religious Digital Revolution" - Poster

Society for History in the Federal Government (2024)

“Religious Digitization: A Step Beyond a Database” - Panelist