Emily Pollard
Ph.D. Student
E.M. lives, loves, and teaches on stolen lands originally stewarded by the Pueblo, Tiwa Piro, Ute, and Diné peoples. A rising fourth doctoral candidate, Pollard utilizes qualitative methods (interviewing, rhetorical, and critical/cultural) to demystify the inner workings of normativities. Her research utilizes intersectionality, critical race theory, whiteness studies, and queer women of color scholarship to recenter femininity as a site of struggle. She writes about labor, organizational violence, undocuqueer, Asian American, and racial rhetorics. Pollard’s writing appears in Quarterly Journal of Speech and Behavioral Sciences. She is also the recipient of the 2023 Top Master’s Thesis Rhetorical/Critical from the National Communication Association’s Master’s Education Division and 2023 Glenda Lewis Critical Race Scholar Award.
