2022 Alumni

PERFORMANCE STUDIES ALUMNI

Our alumni are a large part of what makes Performance Studies special. They come from a wide range of academic, cultural, and artistic backgrounds and contribute their expertise across all concentrations and around the world. Click on the thumbnails below to learn more about them.

B.A. Alumni

M.A. Alumni

  • Fluffy Andres Aguilar

    Fluffy Andres Aguilar

    Individual, Social, Communal Identities in Latin America

  • Shayna Ambers

    Shayna Ambers

    The Artist at Risk; Movement, Sequencing, and Dance; Trauma; Protest Art

  • Juan Arias

    Juan Arias

    Performing violence; Latin American and Latino/a performance

  • Luisa Alarcón Criales

    Luisa Alarcón Criales

    War; Performance of Power; Women performing Resistance; Decolonization

  • Jennifer Chen-su Huang

    Jennifer Chen-su Huang

    Textile/Craft Theory, Art/Design History, Indigenous Studies, Affect Theory

  • Jinhee Kim

    Jinhee Kim

    Performance Studies

  • Chloe Lee

    Chloe Lee

    Theatre/Filming, Acting, New Media, Performance Studies, Self-Identity

  • Frankie Lipscomb-Cobbs

    Frankie Lipscomb-Cobbs

    Black Revolutionary Theory, Performance of Race, Experimental Theatre

  • Leila Mire

    Leila Mire

    Decolonization, Protest Dances, Orientalism

  • Pauline Mornet

    Pauline Mornet

    Mexican indigenous theatre, ritual in performance, socio-political gestus

  • Magana Ngaiza

    Magana Ngaiza

    Postcolonial studies, Black Atlantic Issues, Art & Economic Development

  • Faye Oyang

    Faye Oyang

    Theatre studies, spectatorship, public art as political discourse

  • Sangita Pawar

    Sangita Pawar

    Dance & choreography, race, diaspora, disability, trauma, digital media

  • Holly Taylor

    Holly Taylor

    Movement, embodiment and writing; feminist theory; queer theory

  • Nora Thompson

    Nora Thompson

    CRITICAL DANCE STUDIES; IMPROVISATION; CRITICAL RACE THEORY; DISABILITY STUDIES

  • Ashton Tibbitt

    Ashton Tibbitt

    Dramaturgy, Musical Theatre, Queer Theory, Memory Studies

  • João Victor Toledo

    João Victor Toledo

    Dramaturgy; Improvisation; Antiwork Politics; Aesthetics of Silence

  • Juhyun Woo

    Juhyun Woo

    Feminism and Gender Theory, Dramaturgy, Theatre History, Pop Culture etc

  • Ruisi Zhang

    Ruisi Zhang

    performance of the self; intercultural theatre; performance & meaning-makin

Ph.D. Alumni

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    HENRY CASTILLO

    RACE AND ETHNICITY; WOMEN, GENDER AND SEXUALITY; MEMORY AND "INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE" IN THE AMERICAS; BLACKNESS IN LATIN AMERICA; AFRO-COLOMBIAN "HERITAGE" PRACTICES AND PERFORMANCE

  • CYNTHIA DELGADO HUITRON

    CYNTHIA DELGADO HUITRON

    Performance Studies, Aesthetics and Politics, Feminist Theory, Queer and Trans Studies, Visual Arts, Latinx and Latin American Studies, Critical Geographies, Urban Studies

  • Luis

    Luis Rincon Alba

    Political and social potential of festive practices in the Caribbean and Latin America

  • Tara Aisha Willis

    Tara Aisha Willis

    DANCE STUDIES; BLACK STUDIES; EXPERIMENTAL PERFORMANCE; BLACK FEMINISM; QUEER OF COLOR THEORY