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About Kayla

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Kayla Elizabeth Campana is a Texts and Technology Ph.D. candidate at the University of Central Florida (UCF). Her research and dissertation centers on archival kinship, specifically through a feminist lens. She earned both her BA and MA in History at UCF, along with a Gender Studies graduate certificate.

Kayla’s History MA thesis, Sacrificing Sisters: Nurses' Psychological Trauma from the First World War, 1914-1918, examines the psychological war trauma of nurses during the First World War, looking at the gendered terminology of war trauma and the treatment of female nurses’ trauma through convalescent homes and rest clubs.

You can learn more about Kayla’s academic & professional pursuits by checking out her curriculum vitae.