Current Ph.D. Students

We accept 4 PhD students per year, all of whom receive intensive and highly individualized mentoring and training, as well as 5 years of tuition/fee remission, health insurance, and a stipend. Read more about some of our current candidates below.

  • Al-Sabi

    Alia Al-Sabi

    CARCERAL LOGICS AND TECHNOLOGIES; PRISON ARCHIVES

  • Arias

    Juan Arias

    PERFORMING VIOLENCE; LATIN AMERICAN AND LATINO/A PERFORMANCE

  • Arroyo

    CAMILA ARROYO

    DANCE STUDIES, CHOREOGRAPHY, PERFORMANCE STUDIES, VISUAL ARTS.

  • Cabrini

    Sol Cabrini

    Noise

  • Easterling

    Zac Easterling

    BLACK THOUGHT, COLONIALITY OF BEING, BOXING

  • Gant

    Jayel Gant

    ROLLER SKATING; RECREATION SEGREGATION; MOBILITY STUDIES; TRAUMA STUDIES

  • Huang

    JENNIFER CHEN-SU HUANG

    TEXTILE/CRAFT THEORY, ART/DESIGN HISTORY, INDIGENOUS STUDIES, AFFECT THEORY

  • Kan

    George Kan

    Visual Art & Art history; Trans & Queer Studies; Medical Approaches; Dance

  • Lax

    T. Lax

    BLACK STUDY; FEMINIST THOUGHT; ART; QUEER KINSHIP; CREATIVE NONFICTION

  • Liu

    Xiao Liu

    CONTEMPORARY ASIAN PERFORMANCE

  • Andreas

    ANDREAS PETROSSIANTS

    AUTONOMIST MARXISM, HISTORY OF HOUSING STRUGGLES, CONCEPTUAL ART

  • Anel

    Anel Rakhimzhanova

    EVERYDAY PERFORMANCE; MOBILITY STUDIES; ECOCRITICISM; CRITICAL LOGISTICS

  • Reid

    Tim Reid

    ENTERTAINMENT, COMMERCIAL LAW AND LABOR, PSYCHOANALYSIS, US AMERICAN STUDIES, REMEDIAL AESTHETICS

  • Pamela

    Pamela Santana Oliveros

    Dance anthropology, aesthethics and politics, gender and dance

  • Silber

    Isaac Silber

    music-making, black feminist and queer of color critique

  • Thompson

    Nora Thompson

    DANCE STUDIES, BLACK FEMINIST THEORY, IMPROVISATIONAL FORMS

  • Ulloa

    Blanca Ulloa

    Blinking Intermittence of Constraint: Excessive Performativity and Lower-Scale Disruption