Currently Registered Students And Their Research
Interests/Dissertation Titles as of Autumn 2009
Toufoul Abou-Hodeib
Modernity in the Middle East; Architecture and the Built Environment
as Social Text; Choreography and Ritual in Everyday Life
Sarah Allen
Avant-Garde Art Movements in Japan in the 1950's
Pia Altieri
Slippery Footing: Re-Surfacing and Re-Negotiating 'Trickster(s)'
Christopher Buccafusco
Intersection Between Legal and Visual Rhetoric, Especially in the
History of Visual Technologies in Evidence, Copyright, and First
Amendment Law
Christopher Cutrone
The Identity of Difference: Photographic Representations, Negritude
and Critique of the Subject in Works of Contemporary Black Artists
(Glenn Ligon, Steve McQueen, et al.)
Eric Elshtain
The Poetics of Speculative Science
Annal Frenz
Medical and Religous Narratives of Female Reproduction from Antiquity
to the Present
Anna Felicity Friedman
The Permanent Souvenir: The Interrelated Histories of Travel and
Tattooing
Lena Ksarjian
The Violent Origin of Christianity: A Textual Deconstruction of
The Crucifixion
Timothy R. Kummer
History of the Brain Sciences. Cultural conceptions of Mind, Brain
and Soul.
Thomas Malueg
Violence, Pornography, Paranoia / Madness, Automatism, Interactive
Entertainment, Virtuality, and the History of the Technologies
of the Reproduction of Presence
Zeke Mazur
Neoplatonism and Gnosticism
Douglas McDonald
Popular Music and Identity; Study of Cultural Commodities
Rael Jero Salley
Visual Culture and the Influence of Popular Culture on Fine Arts;
Art Criticism; Interrogation of the Notions around "Black Aesthetic"
Allison Thomas
Trauma Theory; The Aestheticization of Violence and Mourning; Formations
of Citizenship and Subjecthood; Agency and Morality
Jessica Westphal
American Urban History, Museums, Religion, Architecture, Cemeteries
