Graduate Students

Land-based contemporary art practices; critical settler studies; the politics of land, including land rights and land use management; liberalist property law; extractive capitalism and environmental justice.

Hydromedia; seascapes; contemporary art of Sino-Southeast Asia and its diaspora; moving image works; diaspora and Sinophone cinema; regional imaginary; (post)colonial studies; visual construction of identity; intimacies, relationality, and community formation

Modern and contemporary California art, ceramics, queer and gender studies, curatorial studies

Skateboarding Visual Culture, Youth Studies

Contemporary art and digital visual culture; graffiti and street art; reproduction, circulation and mediation; kitsch; digital capitalism; art writing and experimental publishing; Asian diaspora.

History and theory of 19th and 20th century US built environment and planning, public art and architecture, schools and educational institutions, material and visual culture of play and childhood; social practice and community-based art movements

World’s Fairs and International Expositions; visual and material display of “Japan”; personal archives; souvenirs and ruins; tourism and simulated travel; photography and the moving image; sets and backdrops; museums and exhibitions.

Contemporary Art of Palestine and the SWANA Region, Palestinian Visual Culture, Art as Resistance, Palestinian Futurism(s), Speculative Fiction, Activist Art, Media Studies

Contemporary art, new media, film, animation, ecocriticism, landscape studies, critical plant studies, colonialism, gender and feminist studies.

commercial society and consumer culture; globalization; modern and contemporary art; authorship and originality; labor studies; fashion; digital culture; curatorial studies

Art and visual culture of the United States, global contemporary art, Native North American art, U.S. militarism and environmental justice concerns, ecocriticism, nuclear toxicity, environmental humanities, political ecology

Maps, spatial knowledge and land-based creative practices, contemporary art of North America and East Asia, video and moving image, documentary film, environmental justice, foraging