Participant Info
- First Name
- Celeste Tuong Vy
- Last Name
- Sharpe
- Country
- United States
- State
- MN Minnesota
- celeste.sharpe@normandale.edu
- Affiliation
- Normandale Community College
- Website URL
- celestesharpe.com
- Keywords
- digital history, disability, visual culture, health, philanthropy, race, gender, 20th century, 19th century, mass media, poster children, fundraisers
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I’m Dr. Celeste Tường Vy Sharpe, professor of history at Normandale Community College. I earned my PhD in History from George Mason University in Fall 2016. Previously, I was a Penn Predoctoral Fellow for Excellence Through Diversity at the University of Pennsylvania and I worked at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media on a number of projects in the Education and Public Projects divisions.
My interests lie in visual culture and the construction of social identities. My born-digital dissertation is titled “They Need You! Disability, Visual Culture, and the Poster Child, 1945-1980,” and looks at how charitable organizations, disabled children and their families, and the public understood and shaped ideas about disability, identity, philanthropy, family, and the nation after WWII. I am currently launching a new project on the imagery and discourses around women and alcoholism, with the Dia Linn and Hazelden facilities in Minnesota as my case studies.
- Recent Publications
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @celeste_sharpe
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- North America, United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Children & Youth, Disability, Family, Gender, Medicine, Pedagogy, Public History, Race
