Ally Brantley
Originally from Boulder, Colorado, I received my undergraduate degree in 2009 from the University of Notre Dame and I am currently completing a year of volunteer work in El Paso, Texas. My research interests, in both the American West and the US-Mexico borderlands, stem from my undergraduate thesis on borderland entertainment at the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution in Tijuana, Mexico.
More broadly, I am interested in borderland and American Western popular culture and, as such, the making and re-making of these spaces and their narratives. In my graduate studies, I hope to further examine the West and borderlands through the lenses of entertainment and political upheaval, and with specific regard to such issues as labor, gender, violence, and poverty. I am also interested in the study of comparative and transnational borders.
Aside from historical inquiry, I enjoy the outdoors and reading, especially fiction.
