Graduated Students

Past Students

Claire Chambers (2010)
‘Performance Apophatics: Theatre, Liturgy, and the Ethics of Unknowability.’
Dean’s Dissertation Year Fellowship

Jorge Luis Morejón (2010)
‘Cuban American Displacement in South Florida: Exilic Rituals’
Currently tenure-track at the University of the West Indies

Nitza Tenenblat (2010)
‘On Potentializing: A Collective-based Group Theatre and Directing Practice’
Fulbright Award, CAPES award
Currently tenure-track at Brazilia University

Mary Anderson (2009)
Mistaken Place:  Valuing the Feral Paradox in Site-Specific Festival Performance in Australia
Fulbright Award winner (2007-8), Dissertation Year Fellowship (2006-7)
Currently tenure track at Wayne State

Darren Blaney (2009)
Staging the Social and Cruising the Crisis:
A genealogy of utopian aspiration in U.S. queer theater from the 1960s to the present 
Cota Robles Fellowship (2004-6)
Currently Adjunct at Pomona College

Ron Davis (2009)
Ecological Aesthetics
Retired

Shelly Gilbride (2009)
Merce Cunningham's Presence in the Present: A Creative Legacy at the turn of the 21st Century
On leave

Isis Golden (2009)
Performing Cultural Empowerment:  Native American Activism on Alcatraz Island
Currently seeking employment

Judy Halebsky (2009)
Transformation, Transmission, Translation:
Japanese Noh in West Coast arts practice in San Francisco and Vancouver
Currently on MEXT Japan Fellowship (2008-11)

Laura Hope (2007)
Staging the Nation / Confronting Nationalism:
Theatre and Performance by Contemporary Irish and German Women
Currently tenure track at Loyola

Hope Medina (2009)
Brown Ethnography: Dirty Girls and Pop Culture Icons
Currently Student Affairs Officer, Student Learning Center, UC Davis

Sean Metzger (2005)
The Chinese Fetish:  Fashioning Asian/American Bodies in Theatre and Film
Currently tenure track at Duke

Jeff Nyhoff (2008)
Performing the Interface:  the Problematic Theatricality of the Commercial Graphical User Interface
Currently tenure track at Calvin College

Shannon Riley (2006)
Imagi-Nations in Black and White: Cuba, Haiti, and the Performance of Difference in U.S. National Projects, 1898-1940
Dissertation Year Fellowship (2005-6)
Currently tenure track at San Jose State