Yasmine Hachimi

Yasmine Hachimi (Ph.D., University of California at Davis) is a Public Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Renaissance Studies. Her book project, Tudorotica, traces the eroticization of Tudor queens across centuries and genres, from sixteenth-century letters and plays, to tv shows and fanfiction today. Yasmine is interested in how popular media and images of the premodern period challenge or affirm public understandings of the past, particularly with regards to sexuality and race. She has shared her work and expertise in several venues, including public-facing talks and publications, podcasts, and social media outlets. Yasmine is working on the Seeing Race Before Race exhibition (fall 2023) alongside the CRS team at the Newberry, and she is currently exploring the affordances and limitations of color-conscious casting in period dramas. When she’s not working, you can find Yasmine immersing herself in acts of joy centered around rest, reading, and community. You can follow her on Twitter, @YasmineHachimi.