Remi Jablonski
Remi Jablonski
MA Student
Remi Jablonski (he/him, they/them) is a Masters student with the Department of American Studies. He graduated from the University of Virginia in May 2023 with a B.A. in History. Their undergraduate thesis focused on the role of superheroes in both internalizing and externalizing American Cold War social and political imaginaries, following the decline of wartime superheroes in the immediate postwar years through the tumultuous resurgences of superheroes and superhero stories as American society shifted and swung during the Cold War. His research interests primarily include imperial imaginaries and histories of labor, both represented in and reflected through American mass culture. Following their first season as an interpretive ranger with the National Park Service, they hope to use their time with GWU's American Studies program to prepare themself for future interpretive and educational work with NPS.
Where is your favorite place in the world?
Wherever there are cats to pet :)
Wherever there are cats to pet :)
If you could only listen to one album for the rest of your life what would it be and why?
Twin Fantasy by Car Seat Headrest. It's a beautiful and heart wrenching album in all its forms—the original 2011 release, Face to Face, and Mirror to Mirror—and I could (and did in 2024) listen to it over and over and over until the ocean washes over my grave.
Twin Fantasy by Car Seat Headrest. It's a beautiful and heart wrenching album in all its forms—the original 2011 release, Face to Face, and Mirror to Mirror—and I could (and did in 2024) listen to it over and over and over until the ocean washes over my grave.
What are you currently reading?
The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins. The mass murders committed by the United States and its proxies in the Third World during the Cold War are probably not unfamiliar to most people engaged with scholarship of the Cold War, but his journalistic work is incredibly rigorous and thorough in telling the stories of both the victims and the victors in Indonesia, Brazil, and the United States as well. It's a great read for anyone looking to understand the role of the United States in the Cold War beyond its outward presentation as a benevolent bastion of political and economic freedom.
The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins. The mass murders committed by the United States and its proxies in the Third World during the Cold War are probably not unfamiliar to most people engaged with scholarship of the Cold War, but his journalistic work is incredibly rigorous and thorough in telling the stories of both the victims and the victors in Indonesia, Brazil, and the United States as well. It's a great read for anyone looking to understand the role of the United States in the Cold War beyond its outward presentation as a benevolent bastion of political and economic freedom.