2016 Alumni

Rohini Acharya

DANCE STUDIES; CULTURAL STUDIES; SOUTH ASIAN DIASPORA; PERFORMANCE; IDENTITY; DANCE PEDAGOGY

Andrea Cesar

Choreography, Poetry and Theatrical performances

Heidi Dinkler

MIXED­-MEDIA THEATRE; NON­-NARRATIVE THEATRE; CONTEMPORARY DANCE STUDIES; AESTHETICS; CRITICISM; CURATION; SPECTATORSHIP; CHOREOGRAPHY; INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTS STUDY

Caitlin Dowd

DANCE; TOUCH; THE BODY; MINIMALIST AND POST-MINIMALIST SCULPTURE; JUDSON CHURCH; POST-WAR CONTEMPORARY ART; DECONSTRUCTION; BARTHES’S LOVE OF HIS MOTHER

Jiawen Hu

SHAKESPEARE’S “PROBLEM PLAYS”; INTERDISCIPLINARY MEDIA; THE MODERNIZATION OF TRADITIONAL PLAYS

Eloisa Jaramillo

LIVE ARTS; DANCE THEATRE; DANCE STUDIES; PERFORMANCE AND POLITICS

Steinunn Ketilsdóttir

BODY; GENDER; SEXUALITY; FEMINISM; INTIMACY; PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

Lauren Liedel

IDENTITY CREATION IN IMMERSIVE AESTHETIC SPACES (I.E. THEATRE, VIDEOGAMES, AND PUZZLE ROOMS); THE ROLE OF THE PARTICIPANT ACTOR; RELATIONAL RULE SYSTEMS IN INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS

Grace McLaughlin

PERFORMANCE AND THE LAW; AFFECT STUDIES; PHENOMENOLOGY; CRITICAL LEGAL THEORY; POLITICAL PERFORMANCES; QUEER THEORY; US RELIGION AND CULTURE

Sierra Ortega

Mad studies; affect theory; queer theory; ecology; performance art

Sarah Palay

ARCHIVAL PERFORMANCE; PERFORMING IDENTITY THROUGH TECHNOLOGY AND MEDIA; THEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED AND PERFORMANCE ACTIVISM

Rachel Russell

DANCE STUDIES; BLACKNESS IN POPULAR CULTURE; RITUAL AND PRAYER IN PERFORMANCE; CRITICAL RACE THEORY; AFROFUTURISM IN PERFORMANCE; GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES; HEALING AND TRANSCENDENCE THROUGH PERFORMANCE; TRANSFORMATIVE AND RADICAL PEDAGOGY IN THE DANCE CLASSROOM; RESISTANCE AND ACTIVISM IN PERFORMANCE; THE WORLD MAKING OF BLACK WOMEN

Christopher Saechao

QUEER THEORY; CRITICAL RACE THEORY; POSTCOLONIAL THEORY; DRAG PERFORMANCE; GENDER STUDIES; RITUAL PERFORMANCE AND LUDOLOGY

Zoe Sarnak

MUSIC; SOUND STUDIES; MUSICAL THEATER; AFFECT STUDIES

Natalie I. Serrano

Performance and Theater Studies; Political Activism; Artivism; Museum Studies; Feminist Theory; Latin American Studies

Jaewook Song

PERFORMANCE IN VISUAL ART AND CONTEMPORARY DANCE; AFFECT THEORY; AESTHETICS; PSYCHOANALYSIS; POSTCOLONIAL THEORY; POPULAR CULTURE AND EAST ASIAN HISTORY (NEOLIBERALISM, CAPITALISM, BODY CONSTRUCTION, REPRESENTATIONS, VIOLENCE, RAGE, SYSTEMS OF CONTROL, MOVEMENT, TASK, INCAPACITY, DIASPORA, RELIGION, DEVOTION, AND DISCO)

Bethany Tabor

Performance documentation and collection; Critical dance studies; Necropolitics

VANESSA A. VARGAS ROLDÁN

DANCE AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES; DANCE AND PERFORMANCE THEORY CRITICISM; CHOREOGRAPHY; COLLABORATIVE AND INTERDISCIPLINARY INTERNATIONAL/INTERCULTURAL WORK

LAURA R. ZLATOS

GENDER STUDIES; FEMINIST THEORY; MODERN AND POSTMODERN THEATER; BODY POLITICS; IDENTITY POLITICS; QUEER THEORY; WOMEN AND VIOLENCE; PERFORMATIVITY; SPORT STUDIES

Lydia Brawner

PERFORMANCE ART; RELIGIOUS PRACTICE; ARCHIVES AND THE GREAT LAKES

Leon J. Hilton

Vivian Huang

Beth Stinson

FEMINISM; GENDER; QUEER THEORY; CRITICAL RACE STUDIES; INFORMAL SOCIAL AESTHETIC PRACTICES; WRITING; COLLECTIVISMS; GEOGRAPHY; CONTEMPORARY ARTS IN THE US; MUSIC, ART AND LITERATURE IN WEST AND CENTRAL AFRICA; POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES; DEVELOPMENT AND NGOS

Kerry Whigham