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Kayley DeLong

PhD Student Kayley DeLong

Kayley DeLong

PhD Candidate
they/them, she/her

delong.278@osu.edu

Office Hours

By appointment only

Education

  • B.A., Comparative Ethnic Studies, Washington State University, 2018
  • B.A. minor, Queer Studies, Washington State University, 2018

Kayley DeLong (they/them and she/her) is a current PhD Candidate in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Their broad research interests are feminist disability studies, carceral studies, and histories of public health. 

Their Doctoral research analyzes the commercial commodification of haunted historical tourist sites in the United States -- specifically, former mental institutions. DeLong brings together carceral studies, abolitionist critiques, critical disability studies, and feminist theory to critique how former asylums and hospitals extend their violences into the current moment by being revitalized into preserved tourist sites.