Stephanie McKellop is a Queer disabled feminist and a current Ph.D. student in History at the University of Pennsylvania. Her work focuses on folk customs and rituals of marriage, divorce, sex, bodies, and bodywork in cultural contact zones of “Vast Early America” as well as the meaning of family in racial and cultural comparison.

McKellop holds a BS in Psychology and History from Gardner-Webb University, Class of 2015. ^[undefined]

McKellop's dissertation will focus on practices of self-marriage and self-divorce in “backcountry” spaces, with an emphasis on wife-selling.

Their personal-activist research centers around issues of class, poverty, first generation/low income, mental illness, disability, race, gender, and sexuality, especially in pedagogical contexts and regarding students’ rights.

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McKellop's advisor is Kathleen Brown.

McKellop is also a writer for Nursing Clio, a history blog. ^[1] She is frequently a teaching assistant in courses on The Civil War. ^[undefined]

In October 2017, McKellop tweeted: "I will always call on the Black women students first.

Other POC get second tier priority.

WW come next.

And, if I have to, white men."

^[undefined] She was promptly criticized for her racist and sexist tweet.

McKellop then set her Twitter to private. ^[undefined]