Research Interests

Public memory, social activism and resistance, anti-imperialism, national identity formation, the rhetoric of power.

Select Presentations

Bukowsky, H. “Preferential Forgetting and Rewriting: The Bob Bullock Museum and the Rewriting of Colonial Historical Narratives” Competitively selected paper to be presented at the 112th National Communication Association Conference, American Studies Division; New Orleans, LA, November 2026.

Bukowsky, H. “Re-Presenting the Brown Berets and Temporally Distancing Movements: Examining the Display of Equal Rights Movements at the Bob Bullock Museum” Competitively selected paper presented at the 111th National Communication Association Conference, Activism & Social Justice Division; Denver, CO, November 2025.

Bukowsky, H. “Swifties, Stadiums, and Cultural Backlash: Creating Spaces for Community-Building and Consciousness-Raising Amongst Taylor Swift Fan Cultures,” Competitively selected panel discussion presented at the 110th National Communication Association Conference, Activism & Social Justice Division; New Orleans, LA, November 2024. 

Bukowsky, H. “Debating Belonging: Resolutional Similarity in Lincoln-Douglas and NDT- CEDA Debate and its Implications” Competitively selected panel discussion presented at the 94th Southern States Communication Association Conference, Argumentation & Forensics Division; Frisco, TX, April 2024.