Molly Henderson

Molly Henderson (she/her) started the PhD program in American Studies in 2019, and holds a B.A. in American Studies and Urban Studies from Northwestern University. Her primary fields are cultural studies, feminist and queer theory, political theory, and the environmental humanities, with a focus on reproduction, the family, neoliberalism, and social conservatism. Her dissertation focuses on the intersection of the politics of the family and environmentalism in the 1970s-1990s, and in particular on the ways discourses of children and reproduction are invoked as signs of vulnerability and futurity across the political spectrum.