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.
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Farah Atoui (CS) |
transnational migration; global urbanization; migrant belongings; governance; citizenship |
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Jacqueline Atkin (AH) |
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Peter Boudreau (AH) |
Byzantine historiography; memory studies; temporality; archaization; nostalgia |
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Sarah Carter (AH) |
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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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Zoe De Luca (AH) |
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Mauricio Delfin (CS) |
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Ayanna Dozier (CS) |
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Hayley Eaves(AH) |
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Alison Fyfe (CS) |
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Jessica Fontaine (CS) |
affect; popular music; performance; Canadian studies; Indigenous studies; comics |
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Deborah Galante (AH) |
migration; xenophobia; borders; populism; self-identity |
| 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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Itzayana Gutiérrez (CS) |
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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 |
| Adrienne Johnson (AH) | |
| 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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Jonathan Karpetz (CS) |
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Alexandra Kelebay (AH) |
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Gabrielle Kielich (CS) |
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Alican Koc (CS) |
aesthetics; affect; popular culture; cultural studies; new media |
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Burc Kostem (CS) |
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| Chanelle Lalonde (AH) |
ecocritical art history; posthumanism; interdisciplinarity; art and activism |
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Yi-bang Li (AH) |
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| 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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Isabelle Masse (AH) |
portraiture; media history and theories; graphic art, especially pastel; long eighteenth century |
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Louis Melançon (CS) |
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jake moore (AH) |
art; artists; action; agonism; rematerialization; critical spatial practices; vocality; resonance; listening |
| Lindsay Michelle Nixon (AH) | |
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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 |
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Dana Sherwood (CS) |
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Sonja Solomun (CS) |
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| Andy Stuhl (CS) |
media studies; sound, cultural production; science and technology studies; digital humanities |
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Hannah Tollefson(CS) |
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Liza Tom (CS) |
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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) |
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María Van Dembroucke (CS) |
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| Ayesha Vemuri (CS) | |
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Danijela Zutic (AH) |
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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 |
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Chahinez Bensari (CS) |
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Andrea Benzschawel (AH) |
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Rachel Bergmann (CS) |
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digital art; new media; reception; viewership |
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Emma Flavian (CS) |
black study; fugitivity; waywardness; nonsense; critical philosophy |
| Liuba Gonzalez de Armas (AH) | |
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Lauren Harnish (AH) |
gender politics; visual representation; nineteenth-century; modern art; modernism |
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Klea Hawkins (AH) |
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American disaster narratives; American disaster law; critical legal studies; critical race theory; public policy; philanthropy |
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| new materialism; theories of perception; theories of subjectivity; new media; performance and video art | |
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Rachel Klein (AH) |
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| Sierra Komar (CS) | |
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Benjamin Nothwehr (CS) |
queer/trans embodiment; gender & new media; social movements; self-produced media |
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Geneviève Plumptre (CS) |
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Anthony Portulese (AH) |
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Saad Rajper (CS) |
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Andilib Sajid (AH) |
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Raven Spiratos (AH) |
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Marilou Trahan-Thomassin (AH) |
Canadian studies; slavery; children; visual culture; art history |
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live materials (mainly plants) in contemporary installation; land art; art preservation |