Catriona Miller

Catriona Miller is a doctoral student in the History Department. She studies Southeast Asian History with a minor in Gender and Women’s Studies. She holds a B.A. with Honors in History from the Loyola University Maryland. Prior to graduate school, Catriona taught Kindergarten ESL in Memphis, Tennessee. Catriona’s dissertation project will analyze literary and journalistic publications of Cambodian women to explore conceptualizations of gendered spaces in post-independence Cambodia. The broader scope of this project aims to create a more nuanced history of women in mid-twentieth century Cambodia, as well as to consider critically the conversations surrounding urbanization, modernization, education, and women’s work in a post-independence country. She believes that discourses about women in the urban sphere will reveal a gendered anxiety regarding social change in the mid-twentieth century. With funding from the Scott-Kloeck Jenson Fellowship, she will conduct exploratory research in the Phnom Penh archives this summer.