Graduate Student

Rebecca Struch

Ph.D. Student, Performance Studies

B.A. in Theatre Arts, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota; M.A. in Applied Theatre Arts, University of Southern California

Rebecca Struch centers social justice and community engagement in her work as a theatre artist, scholar, educator, and cultural organizer. Her dissertation makes the racialization of space and the spatialization of race central to the study of site-specific performance in the United States. Through interdisciplinary engagement with Black feminist geographies, critical Indigenous studies, and decolonial critique, she...

Jaclyn Zhou

Ph.D. Student, Performance Studies

B.S. in Journalism, Asian Languages and Cultures, Northwestern University

Jaclyn's current research focuses on race, tourism and digital technology. Other interests include Asian and Asian American popular cultures, animality studies, science fiction, queer studies, and high strangeness.