We encourage all prospective applicants to consult with graduate students already in our program. Research topics and contact info for our current students in Art History (AH) and Communication Studies (CS) are available here.
The Art History and Communication Studies Graduate Students Association (AHCS GSA) is comprised of all graduate students and postdoctoral fellows currently registered in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies.
| Jacqueline Atkin (AH) |
artistic and medical collaboration; medical photography; neurology (1861-1934); avant-garde portraiture; identity |
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Farah Atoui (CS) |
transnational migration; global urbanization; migrant belongings; governance; citizenship |
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Peter Boudreau (AH) |
Byzantine historiography; memory studies; temporality; archaization; nostalgia |
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Shana Cooperstein (AH) |
nineteenth-century France; pedagogy; making and knowing; art and medicine; art and science; modernity; modernism |
| Lindsay Corbett (AH) |
Byzantine art; sacred matter; materiality; medieval studies; cultural exchange; iconoclasm |
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Frances Cullen (AH) |
photography; contemporary media art; obsolescence; the analog |
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Jessica Fontaine (CS) |
affect; popular music; performance; Canadian studies; Indigenous studies; comics |
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Deborah Galante (AH) |
right-wing populism; propaganda posters; photojournalism; migrants; Europe; Italy and discrimination |
| Chris Gismondi (AH) |
Canadian slavery; settler-colonialism; whiteness; critical race; Indigenous; environmental history; gender; masculinity |
| Clinton Glenn (CS) |
post-socialism; LGBT rights; queer theory; public protest; Eastern Europe |
| Lotfi Gouigah (AH) |
American art; performativity; Lynn Hershman; new media art |
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Nicolas Holt (AH) |
early video art; Radical Software (1970-1974); technical specificity; new technologies of control and governance; media theory |
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Joana Joachim (AH) |
Slavery; Black women; New France; Saint-Domingue; Louisiana |
| Rebecca L. Johnson (AH) |
Roman baroque; counter reformation; ecclesiastical architecture and ornamentation; performativity; French monarchy; identity |
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Ali Karimi (CS) |
history of technology; population; surveillance studies; numerical information; Afghanistan |
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Alican Koc (CS) |
aesthetics; affect; popular culture; cultural studies; new media |
| Burç Köstem (CS) |
political economy; cultural studies; social theory; infrastructure studies; radical politics; excess; waste; urban studies; Turkish politics; post-autonomist thought |
| Chanelle Lalonde (AH) |
ecocritical art history; posthumanism; interdisciplinarity; art and activism |
| Robin Lynch (AH) |
art and technology; corporate culture; environment; media |
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Evgeniya Makarova (AH) |
architectural history and theory; phenomenology of space and time; art and nationalism; difficult heritage |
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jake moore (AH) |
art; artists; action; agonism; rematerialization; critical spatial practices; vocality; resonance; listening |
| Nina Morena (CS) |
breast cancer; misinformation; gender studies; social media; new media; health communication |
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Allyson Rogers (CS) |
film music; aesthetic theory; Canadian music history; documentary film |
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Jonathan Rouleau (CS) |
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Molly Sauter (CS) |
science and technology studies; critical studies of the corporation; media studies; infrastructure studies; political economy |
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Braden Scott (AH) |
architecture; archaeology; global art history; media environments; process; worlding |
| Roda Siad (CS) |
migration; representation; data justice; critical data studies; privacy rights; technology studies; postcolonial studies |
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Sonja Solomun (CS) |
media studies; social media; data discrimination; media history; power and politics of algorithms/AI; cultural approaches to software; feminist science and technology studies |
| Andy Stuhl (CS) |
media studies; sound, cultural production; science and technology studies; digital humanities |
| Hannah Tollefson (CS) |
infrastructure studies; environmental media; energy and climate change; Indigenous studies; feminist science and technology studies; political economy; critical animal studies |
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Sophie Toupin (CS) |
Feminist Science and Technology Studies; Infrastructure Studies, PostColonial; AntiColonial and Decolonial Approaches; Media Studies; Political Economy |
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Saelan Twerdy (AH) |
| Tara Allen-Flanagan (AH) | cosmetics; advertisements; 20th century French visual culture; Japonisme |
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Julia Aucoin (CS) |
food studies; sociality; broadcast media; fan culture |
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Joel Auerbach (CS) |
philosophy; AI; computation & information; energy & climate change; political economy |
| Chahinez Bensari (CS) |
non-lethality; electroshock weaponry; pain, STS; material discursive analysis; governance |
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Rachel Bergmann (CS) |
science and technology studies; media studies; critical algorithm studies; feminist technoscience; affect; critical corporation studies |
| Tara Allen-Flanagan (AH) | cosmetics; advertisements; 20th century French visual culture; Japonisme |
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Emma Flavian (CS) |
black study; fugitivity; waywardness; nonsense; critical philosophy |
| Sabine Gilbert (AH) | modern art; Spanish art; colour theory; materiality; twentieth-century; Picasso |
| Liuba González De Armas (AH) |
print; public art and propaganda; politics of representation; women; socialism; Revolutionary Cuba |
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Lauren Harnish (AH) |
gender politics; visual representation; nineteenth-century; modern art; modernism |
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critical legal studies; critical policy studies; ecofeminism; disaster policy; intersectionality |
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| new materialism; theories of perception; theories of subjectivity; new media; performance and video art | |
| Saraphina Masters (AH) | Angelica Kauffman; early modern Britain; Italy; national identities; history painting; classical tradition; antiquity |
| Hana Nikčević (AH) |
ecological art; ecocriticism; the sublime; affect; art and language; photography |
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Benjamin Nothwehr (CS) |
queer/trans embodiment; gender & new media; social movements; self-produced media |
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Marilou Trahan-Thomassin (AH) |
Canadian studies; slavery; children; visual culture; art history |
| contemporary art; plants; socio-nature studies; land art |