Graduate Student Research Assistant Caroline Alt studies the hauntings of the American South. Alt’s research aims to review ghost stories as self-reflected, self-told histories that, when considered properly, reveal the region’s social anxieties today. Alt received her B.A. in Political Science and History at Wellesley College where she also defended her thesis, Madame Lalaurie to May Baily: White Femininity in New Orleans' Nineteenth-Century Tales of the Supernatural under the advisement of Katherine Grandjean. Her project argued that New Orleans used ghost stories to contend with and suppress the most painful aspects of its history. Prior to attending the University of Georgia, Alt spent four years in Washington D.C. working as a Digital Strategist for the Center for American Progress and CAP Action. Research Research Areas: U.S. South Education Education: B.A., Wellesley College, Wellesley. M.A., History, 2021. B.A., Wellesley College, Wellesley. M.A., Political Science, 2021.
