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 |
| Lindsay Corbett (AH) |
Byzantine art; sacred matter; materiality; medieval studies; cultural exchange; iconoclasm |
| Sadie Couture (CS) |
Media history; radio studies; sound studies; feminist science and technology studies; affect theory; cultural studies |
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Jessica Fontaine (CS) |
affect; work; professional wrestling; feminist media studies; cultural studies; Indigenous studies; comic studies |
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Deborah Galante (AH) |
Fascist representations; right-wing political billboards; migrants; refugees and asylum-seekers; European borders |
| 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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infrastructure studies; technology; environment; policy; platform governance |
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Nicolas Holt (AH) |
Juan Downey; energies in the arts; electromagnetism; early video art; environmental media; energy humanities; energy as resource; decoloniality; ecology |
| Adrienne R. Johnson (AH) |
African Canadian art; Black Canadian History; Visual culture; Critical and Postcolonial Theory |
| Rebecca L. Johnson (AH) |
Roman baroque; counter reformation; ecclesiastical architecture and ornamentation; performativity; French monarchy; identity |
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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) |
art and ecology; aesthetics; listening; ecocriticism; environmental humanities |
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Evgeniya Makarova (AH) |
architectural history and theory; phenomenology of space and time; art and nationalism; difficult heritage |
| Louis Melançon (CS) |
cybersecurity; software vulnerabilities; free and open source software; critical infrastructure; internet studies |
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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) |
music; film; sound recording technologies; auditory cultures; documentary media; cultural institutions; Canadian studies |
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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 |
| Emily DeKlyen Silbergeld (AH) |
Byzantine art; frames and framing; cultural exchange; archaism and anachronism; image and text; diaspora; Byzantium and Venice |
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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 |
| Liza Tom (CS) |
queer theory; South Asian studies; development and policy studies |
| Ayesha Vemuri (CS) |
infrastructure studies; environmental humanities; flooding and climate change; feminist science and technology studies; postcolonial theory: infrastructure studies; environmental humanities; flooding and climate change; feminist science and technology studies; postcolonial theory |
| Tara Allen-Flanagan (AH) |
Japonisme; cosmetics; nineteenth-century; consumerism; Manet; Morisot |
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Julia Bugiel (CS) |
affect; charisma; myth; online publics; mortification |
| Sabine Gilbert (AH) |
modern art; Spanish art; colour theory; materiality; twentieth-century; Picasso |
| Kristian Guttormson (AH) |
nineteenth-century; visual culture; missing link; spectacle; alterity; temporality |
| Mitra Kazemi (AH) |
early modern graffiti; carceral art; vernacular cultures; history of prisons; Inquisition history |
| Olivia Woodruff (AH) |
Arts & Crafts movement; domesticity; nineteenth-century; poison; William Morris; material culture |
| Hana Nikčević (AH) |
ecological art; ecocriticism; ecological grief; disappearance; haunting |