Year 6 + Ph.D.

PH.D. STUDENT BIOGRAPHIES

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.

  • Sareh Afshar

    Sareh Afshar

    PUBLIC AFFECT & AESTHETICS OF EVERYDAY LIFE; DEATH & DESIRE; CULTURAL PERFORMANCE AS POLITICAL RESISTANCE; PRECARITY & BODY-/BIO-POLITICS; MEMORY & TRAUMA STUDIES; GENDER & SEXUALITY STUDIES; MEDIA STUDIES; PHOTOGRAPHY & VISUAL ART; ORAL NARRATIVES & POETICS; PERFORMING FICTION; TEMPORALITY & RHYTHMANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE & POLITICS IN POSTREVOLUTIONARY IRAN

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    CAMILA ARROYO

    DANCE STUDIES, CHOREOGRAPHY, PERFORMANCE STUDIES, VISUAL ARTS.

  • Taylor Black

    Taylor Black

    performance and technology; ethics; new media theory; social media; lying; fiction; privacy and surveillance; big data; play; Marxism; utopia

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    ALHENA KATSOF

    QUEER AND FEMINIST THEORY; EXILE; BLACK STUDIES; ART & PERFORMANCE STUDIES

  • Brandon Masterman

    Brandon Masterman

    QUEER THEORY, SOUND STUDIES, AFFECT THEORY, CRITICAL THEORY, NOISE, ABJECTION, MARXISM, PHILOSOPHY AND NEGATIVITY, THEORIES OF DISCOMFORT, ANNIHILATION, DEATH, FREE JAZZ, MUSIC OF THE AVANT-GARDE

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    ISAAC SILBER

  • Emily Hella Tsaconas

    Emily Hella Tsaconas

    FEMINIST THEORIES OF THE BODY; BIOPOLITICS; SPORT STUDIES; PREVENTATIVE MEDICINE

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    Blanca Ulloa