Adrienne Chudzinski
History Instructor
Originally from Fremont, Ohio, Dr. Chudzinski has spent the past several years in various locales—Bloomington, Oxford, Chicago—throughout the Midwest. She received her B.A. and M.A. in History from Miami University (OH) and her Ph.D. from Indiana University. Her research focuses on national memories and public remembrance of the Civil Rights Movement and the larger black freedom struggle in the United States. Dr. Chudzinski has worked in several history museums and served as an Editorial Assistant at the American Historical Review. She has taught collegiate courses on U.S. history, American mythologies, and the history of violence in the United States.
Outside of the classroom, Dr. Chudzinski enjoys traveling, running, cooking, and reading mysteries.
Publications
"Confronting Uncomfortable History: Contested Memorials on the American Landscape," American Studies, vol. 62, Issue 1-2, Spring-Summer 2023.
“Profane Memorials: Burying the Martyrs of the Civil Rights Movement,” in eds. Kami Fletcher and Ashley Towle, Grave History: Death & Race in Southern Cemeteries from the Antebellum to the Post-Civil Rights Era. University of Georgia Press, 2023.
“Confronting Uncomfortable History: Emmett Till and Contested Memorials on the American Landscape,” Dialogues: Blog of the American Studies Journal. October 23, 2022.
“The Ahmaud Arbery Case Exposes the Failures of the Criminal Justice System,” The Washington Post. May 19, 2020.
Racial Violence in Birmingham, Alabama and the Mythology of the Civil Rights Movement. Ph.D. Dissertation, Indiana University, Bloomington, 2017.
“Labeling Terrorism: Public Responses to Racial Violence,” The Activist History Review, October 2017.
“Book Smart: The Role of Editorial Assistants at the American Historical Review,” Perspectives on History: The Newsmagazine of the American Historical Association, October 2016.