Rosie Click
Rosie Click is a third-year PhD candidate in the History Department at Georgetown University, advised by Dr. Bryan McCann.
Additional dissertation committee members include Dr. Mireya Loza, Dr. Toshihiro Higuchi, and Dr. Crystal Luo. Click received an MA in Latin American Studies from Tulane University in May 2022, and a BA in Latin American Studies and English from Tulane University in May 2019. Her doctoral work explores local teachers and education policy in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Hawai'i, and the Philippines during and after the transition to US imperial rule. She is also interested in public history, museum studies, Caribbean literature, and academic editing. She is currently working on an article about Mark Twain's rhetorical use of Cuba in his anti-imperialist writings. Additionally, Click is the coeditor-in-chief of The Footnote, an online publication of short-form articles about teaching, learning, and doing history. For inquiries about The Footnote, email thefootnote@georgetown.edu.
Click is also the Lead Organizer for Graduate Students serving in Hourly Positions and co-Department Organizer for the History Department for the Georgetown Alliance of Graduate Employees (GAGE), the labor union for graduate student workers at Georgetown University. Any graduate student workers from the History Department and other departments with questions or issues related to their employment at Georgetown can contact her at gradassistants.lead@wearegage.org.
Outside of her academic work, Click is currently part of the Clara Barton Partnership (CBP), a coalition working to promote women's history interpretation, research, and programming at the Clara Barton National Historic Site and other National Parks Service (NPS) sites. The CBP is also engaging with various stakeholders regarding Executive Order 14121 Recognizing and Honoring Women's History. Click coauthored a report titled Revitalizing Clara Barton National Historic Site (October 2023) with Dr. Heather Huyck, author of Doing Women's History in Public. The report is based on a series of workshops in summer 2023 about the future of the site. These workshops, which Click helped to organize, featured academic and public historians, historical preservationists, NPS staff, staff from other historic sites, representatives from the American Red Cross, graduate students, and members of the public. This work was supported by grants from the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the National Collaborative for Women's History Site.