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Rebekah Aycock is a PhD Candidate in the Department of American Studies at the University of Kansas. She is studying burglary in U.S. culture during the second half of the 19th century.

Her research has been funded by a variety of internal and external grants and fellowships, including the Southern Historical Collection‘s Pre-Dissertation Prospectus Fellowship at UNC-Chapel Hill, the Hall Center for the Humanities‘s Graduate Student Travel Grant at the University of Kansas. In 2022, she was awarded the Social Justice Research Award, which is part of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences’ Research Excellence Initiative.

Rebekah has presented her research at several national conferences including the American Studies Association in New Orleans, LA, the Cultural Studies Association, and the American Literature Association.