Rudolph and Louise Fishel Endowed Scholarship History and Art History

Rachel Whyte is a third year PhD student in History at George Mason University. Her research interests include Indigenous studies, with concentrations in digital and public history. She is currently a Graduate Research Assistant on the Religious Ecologies project at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. 
 
Rachel received her MA from the University of Central Florida in anthropology with a concentration in archaeology and her BA in history and anthropology and geography from Coastal Carolina University. Her research focuses on finding new ways to present information and artifacts housed in museum collections to the public, as well as finding analytical research methods that are less invasive for material objects.