Ph.D. Recipients
Listed below are the names, dissertation titles, and job titles (if available) of individuals who have completed the Ph.D. program since its inception in 1998.
Aldape Muñoz, Juan Manuel
Choreotopias: Performance, State Violence, and the Near Past — Spring 2020
2020 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Society for the Humanities, Cornell Univeristy
Anderson, Patrick
So Much Wasted: Violence Performed In Anorexia Nervosa, Staged Fasts, and Hunger Striking — Spring 2005
UC San Diego, Associate Professor, Communications and Ethnic Studies, Director of Critical Gender Studies
Baker, Miyuki
Embodied Study for Collective Liberation: Everyday Performances of Solidarity — Spring 2022
Bayraktar, Nilgun
Moving Images Against the Current: The Aesthetics and Geopolitics of (Im)mobility in Contemporary Europe — Fall 2011
2011 UC Berkeley, R&C Lectureship
2012 Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey, Instructor, Humanities
2015 California College of the Arts, Assistant Professor, Visual Studies
Belmar, Sima
Easier Said Than Done: Talking Identity in Late Twentieth-Century American Concert Dance — Spring 2015
2015 UC Berkeley, Lecturer, Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
Boucai, Marc
Narrating Normal: Arabs, Queers, Neoliberal Spectatorship — Fall 2013
2014 Theatre Director at AS220, Providence, RI
Boyle, Michael Shane
The Ambivalence of Resistance: West German Antiauthoritarian Performance after the Age of Affluence — Fall 2012
Spring 2013 – Harvard University, Lecturer, College Writing Program
2013 Stanford University, Postdoctoral Lecturer in the Immersion in the Arts: Living in Culture Program
2014 Queen Mary, University of London, School of English and Drama, Lecturer in Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies, Director of MA in Theatre and Performance
Bragin, Naomi
Black Power of Hip Hop Dance: On Kinesthetic Politics — Spring 2015
2015-2016 UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, UC Riverside
2015-current (On leave 2015-16) University of Washington, Bothell, Assistant Professor, Performance Studies
Burriss, Catherine
Performing Theory: Gendered and Erotic Complications in Cinquecento Italian Comedies, and some English Reverberations — Fall 2006
CSU Channel Islands, Associate Professor, Performing Arts
Cappelli, Renu
Inadmissible Presence: Objecthood, Spectacle, and the Theatricality of Race — Fall 2007
2008-2011 Stanford University, Post-doctoral Scholar, Introduction to the Humanities
2013 UC San Diego, Lecturer, Critical Gender Studies
San Francisco State University, Lecturer, Women and Gender Studies
California College of the Arts, Senior Lecturer, Critical Studies
Case, Gretchen
Medical Scarring and the Performance of Memory — Fall 2005
Duke University, University Writing Program Fellow
Northwestern University, Adjunct Lecturer, Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program
2011 University of Utah School of Medicine, Assistant Professor, Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities
Casey, Carrie Gaiser
Ballet’s Feminisms: Genealogy and Gender in Twentieth-Century American Ballet History — Fall 2009
St. Mary’s College of California, Adjunct Professor, Liberal Education for Arts Professionals program
Conley, Miyoko
Transnational Bodies: Audience Performance in Anime and K-pop Media and Theatre Ecologies — Summer 2021
Crow, Heather
Heather Warren-Crow
POSSESSIONS: Animated Bodies in Mediated Performance — Fall 2006
Texas Tech University, Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts, Director of Fine Arts Doctoral Program
Daley, Lashon
Black Girl Lit: The Coming of (R)age Performances in Contemporary U.S. Black Girlhood Narratives, 1989-2019 — Summer 2021
2021 San Diego State University , Assistant Professor, Department of English & Comparative Literature
Davis, Reid
Passed Away June 2019
Sissy Warriors: Perversity, Performance, and the Unruly Child — Fall 2006
St. Mary’s College, Adjunct Professor, Ethnic Studies and Performing Arts
The Artory Foundation, Artistic Director
Marin Theatre Company, Director of Education
Duong, Natalia
Chemical Diasporas: Legal, Cultural, and Aesthetic Performances of Agent Orange — Summer 2020
2020 Pomona College, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies
Duffly, Catherine
From Farm to Table to Stage: Performing Food Politics — Fall 2011
2011 UC Berkeley, R&C Lecturer and California College of the Arts, Lecturer
2012 Reed College, Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre
Evans, Randi
Social Dance after Social Practice: Between the Stage and the Museum
Ferro-Murray, Ashley
Choreography in the Digital Era: Dancing the Cultural Differences of Technology — Spring 2016
2016 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, Curator of Theater and Dance at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC)
Fisek, Emine
Incorporating Immigrants: Theatrical Aid Work and the Politics of Witnessing in France — Spring 2010
Johns Hopkins University, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, Krieger School of Arts and Science, German and Romance Languages and Literatures
2012 Bogazici University, Turkey, Assistant Professor, Department of Western Languages and Literature
Fisher, Margaret
Recovery of Ezra Pound’s Third Opera Collis O Heliconii: The Transmission of History Through Song — Spring 2003
Second Evening Arts Publishing
Gold, Thea
Is the Musical Disabled? — Spring 2019
Gough, Kathleen
Bleeding Regions: Performance and Politics in the ‘Backwaters’ of the Atlantic — Fall 2005
University of Glasgow, Lecturer, Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies and Advisor of Studies, Arts College Academic and Student Administration
2014 University of Vermont, Assistant Professor and Resident Dramaturge,Theatre Department
Hagstrom-Stahl, Kristina
Melancholy Traces: Performing the Work of Mourning — Fall 2006
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Lund University, Sweden, and also teaches at the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts
University of Gothenburg, Professor of Performative Arts at the Academy of Music and Drama
Havard, Julia
Queer Burlesque's Histories, Fantasies, and Futures — Spring 2021
2021 Dartmouth, Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow
2021 Smithsonian Postdoctoral Fellow
Herrera-Lasso Gonzalez, Martha
Reginalizing NAFTA: Theaters of Translation in Mexico City and Quebec — Summer 2019
Hoetger, Megan
Rude and Playful Shadows: Collective Performances of Cinema in Cold War Europe — Spring 2019
Visiting scholar, Centre for Cinema and Media Studies at Ghent University
2019 Research fellowship, Dresden, Germany
Hoffmann, Beth
Acting without Guarantees: The Politics of Form in Contemporary British Performance — Fall 2008
George Mason University, Assistant Professor, English Department
Johung, Jennifer
Replacements: From the Primordial Hut to the Digital Network — Spring 2008
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Associate Professor, Department of Art History
Johnson, Paige
Waria Genres: Identity, Embodiment, and the Performance of Gendered Belonging in Contemporary Indonesia — Fall 2019
2018-Present Assistant professor of Performance & Race, Department of Theatre, Barnard College
Kokontis, Kate
Performative Returns and the Rememory of History: Genealogy and Performativity in the American Racial State — Fall 2011
2011 New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, Academic Studio: Founding Faculty, Chair, Integrated Humanities
Levin, Laura
Performing World — Spring 2005
York University, Associate Professor, Theatre Studies and Director, Graduate Program in Theatre & Performance Studies
Lu, Joyce
Dreaming in Other Languages: On the Performance of Autobiographical Narrative as Decolonizing Pedagogy — Spring 2007
Pomona College, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
2008 Pomona College, Assistant Professor, Theatre and Dance
Luna, Caleb
Undisciplined Bodies: Race, Size and Sexuality in U.S. Media and Culture — Spring 2022
2022 UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California
Marshall, Caitlin
"Power in the Tongue": Staging American Voice — Spring 2016
2016-17 Postdoctoral position in Theater and Performance Studies, University of Maryland
2017-Present Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre History & Performance Studies, University of Maryland
Martin-Baron, Michelle
née Michelle Baron
Queering US Public Mourning Rituals: Funerals, Performance, and the Construction of Normativity — Summer 2011
2011 Oberlin College, Visiting Assistant Professor
2012 Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Assistant Professor, Women’s Studies
Mattingly, Kate
Set in Motion: Dance Criticism and the Choreographic Apparatus — Spring 2017
2017 University of Utah, School of Dance, Assistant Professor
McGonigal, Jane
This Might be a Game: Ubiquitous Play Performance at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century — Fall 2006
Institute for the Future, Palo Alto, CA, Director of Games Research and Development
McIvor, Charlotte
The New Interculturalism: Race, Gender and Immigration in Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland — Spring 2011
National University of Ireland, Galway, Lecturer Above The Bar, Drama & Theatre Studies
Nambiar, Aparna
Reassembling Traditional Dance: Choreographic Reassembly and Cultural Mutation in a Multicultural Diaspora — Spring 2022
2022 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Asian Research Institute at the National University of Singapore
Nguyen, Khai Thu
Sensing Vietnam: Melodramas of Nation from Colonialism to Market Reform — Spring 2010
University of California, Berkeley, James R. Gray R&C Lecturer, College of Letters and Science
University of California, Berkeley, UC Extension, Special Assistant to the Dean
2016 University of California, Berkeley, Associate Director, Consortium for Interdisciplinary Research
Palacios, Joy Crosby
Preaching for the Eyes: Priests, Actors, and Ceremonial Splendor in Early Modern France — Summer 2012
2014-17 Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada, Assistant Professor of Literature, Department of French
2017 University of Calgary, Assistant Professor, Department of Classics and Religion
Prieur, Nina Billone
In the System: Art, Prison, and the Performance of Social Welfare — Fall 2010
2010 Duke University, Assistant Professor, Theatre Studies
Georgetown University, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Performing Arts
Rafferty, Kelly Ann
Performing ARTs: Technologies of Participation and Reproduction from Body Art to Bio Art — Spring 2010
Arizona State University, Assistant Professor of Performance Studies
2013: Independent artist, educator, and facilitator in Oakland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles
Ramos, Ivan
Sonic Negations: Sound, Affect, and Unbelonging Between Mexico and the United States — Spring 2015
2015-2017 UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, UC Riverside
2017 University of Maryland, Assistant Professor, Women’s Studies
Rastovac, Heather
Performing (Trans)National Iranianness: The Choreographic Cartographies of Diasporic Iranian Dancers and Performance Artists — Summer 2016
2016-2018 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, Dance
2018-Present UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in UC Davis’s Department of Asian American Studies
Ricks, Omar
On Jubilee: The Performance of Black Leadership in the Afterlife of Slavery — Spring 2014
Richards, Kimberly
Crude Stages of the Capitalocene: Performance and Petro-Imperialism — Summer 2019
Fall 2019 Instructor, Department of English, University of the Fraser Valley, BC, Canada
2021 University of Alberta, Postdoc, Transition in Energy, Culture, and Society Network
2022 University of British Columbia, School of Journalism, Writing, and Media
Rivera, Takeo
Minority Models: Masochism, Masculinity, and the Machine in Asian American Cultural Politics — Spring 2017
2017 Boston University, Department of English, Assistant Professor
Scott, Ariel Osterweis
Body Impossible: Dynamics of Race, Sexuality, and Virtuosity in the Dance of Desmond Richardson — Fall 2011
Wayne State University Michigan, Assistant Professor of Dance
2014 Skidmore College, Dance Department, Visiting Scholar/Artist
2016 California Institute of the Arts, Assistant Professor, School of Dance
Seetoo, Chia-Yi
The Political Kinesthetics of Contemporary Dance: Taiwan in Transnational Perspective — Spring 2013
Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Shanghai Theatre Academy
2019-Present Lecturer, Shanghai Theatre Academy
Shalson, Lara
Endurance: Arts, Politics, and Performance — Fall 2008
King’s College London, Lecturer, Theatre and Performance Studies
Shankar, Karin
Molecular Aesthetics: Contemporary Art and Performance in Delhi — Spring 2016
2016-17 Andrew W. Mellon Global Postdoctoral Fellow at Creative Time in NYC
2017 Department of Humanities and Media, Pratt Institute, Assistant Professor of Performance Studies
Sherman, Stephanie
(Dis)Plazas and (Dis)Placed Danzas: Space, Trauma, and Moving Bodies in Mexico City — Fall 2016
2017 Visiting Professor, Arts Department, Universidad de las Américas in Puebla, Mexico
2018 Fulbright COMEXUS Garcia Robles Postdoctoral Scholar, Universidad Nacional Autónoma Mexicana and Teatro Ciego, Mexico City.
2021 Adjunct Lecturer, Dance, Mills College
Sizemore-Barber, April
Prismatic Performances: Queer South African Identity and the Deconstruction of the Rainbow Nation — Fall 2013
2014 Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Visiting Assistant Professor, Women’s Studies
2015 Postdoctoral Scholar Royal Holloway, University
2015 – Georgetown University, Assistant Professor of the Practice, Women’s and Gender Studies Program
Stufft, Monica
Chorus Girl Collective: Early 20th Century American Performance Communities and Urban Networking — Spring 2008
University of San Diego, Assistant Professor, Theatre
Taylor, Joanne Stoddard
21st Century Zombies: New Media, Cinema, and Performance — Fall 2011
Berkeley City College, Adjunct Faculty, Humanities
Diablo Valley College, Adjunct Faculty, Humanities
San Francisco State University, Adjunct Professor, Business
Wallin, Scott
Madness in the Making: Psychosocial Disability and Theater — Spring 2014
2014-15 UC Berkeley, Lecturer, Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
2015 Stanford University, Postdoctoral Lecturer in the Immersion in the Arts: Living in Culture Program
2016 UC Berkeley, Lecturer, Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
2017-Present UC Berkeley, Lecturer, College Writing Programs
Williams, Joshua
Don’t Show A Hyena How Well You Can Bite: Performance, Race and the Animal Subaltern in Eastern Africa — Spring 2017
2016 Harvard University, Preceptor of Expository Writing, Harvard College Writing Program
2018 NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Assistant Professor Faculty Fellow, Drama Department
Woolf, Brandon
Paradigmatic Stages: Performing Arts Policy in Post-Wall Berlin — Summer 2014
2016 New York University, Visiting Assistant Professor, English Department
2018-Present Clinical Associate Professor; Director, Program in Dramatic Literature
Yapp, Hentyle
Minor China: Affect, Performance, & Contemporary China in the Global — Spring 2014
2014-15 Pomona College, Postdoctoral Appointment
2015 Pomona College, Assistant Professor
2016 New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, Assistant Professor, Art and Public Policy
M.A. Recipients
Espinoza, Laila
La Casa Verde: Resistance and Renewal from the House to the Streets on the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands — Summer 2020
McKeithan, Sean
Consuming Nostalgia: Heritage Masculinity and Material Culture — Summer 2015
Sealy-Thompson, Tonika
Conjuration and Procession: Performing Feminist Politics in the Black Diaspora — Fall 2018
2019 Barbados’ Ambassador to Brazil