Graduate Students

Madalen Claire Benson

  • Title
    • PhD Candidate
  • Department
    • History of Art/Visual Culture
  • Campus Email
  • Summary of Expertise
    • 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.

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Rachel Bonner

  • Title
    • PhD Candidate
  • Department
    • History of Art/Visual Culture
  • Campus Email
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Evelyn Char

  • Title
    • PhD candidate
  • Department
    • History of Art/Visual Culture
  • Campus Email
  • Summary of Expertise
    • 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

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Madeline Reverie Drace

  • Title
    • PhD student
  • Department
    • History of Art/Visual Culture
  • Campus Email
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Ginny Duncan

  • Title
    • PhD Student
  • Department
    • History of Art/Visual Culture
  • Campus Email
  • Summary of Expertise
    • Modern and contemporary California art, ceramics, queer and gender studies, curatorial studies

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Miguel Eduardo Fernandez

  • Title
    • PhD Student
  • Department
    • History of Art/Visual Culture
  • Campus Email
  • Summary of Expertise
    • Skateboarding Visual Culture, Youth Studies, Photography, Cinema

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Sarah Hwang

  • Title
    • PhD Student
  • Department
    • History of Art/Visual Culture
  • Campus Email
  • Summary of Expertise
    • Contemporary art and digital visual culture; digital and material culture studies; cyberfeminism; Asian diaspora; art writing and experimental publishing; graffiti and street art; digital capitalism. 

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Mirra-Margarita Ianeva

  • Title
    • PhD student
  • Department
    • History of Art/Visual Culture
  • Campus Email
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Aaron Samuel Mulenga

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Anna Ijiri Oehlkers

  • Title
    • PhD Student
  • Department
    • History of Art/Visual Culture
  • Campus Email
  • Summary of Expertise
    • 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.

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LuLing Osofsky

  • Title
    • PhD Candidate
  • Department
    • History of Art/Visual Culture
  • Campus Email
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Stacy Rebecca Schwartz

  • Title
    • PhD Candidate
  • Department
    • History of Art/Visual Culture
  • Campus Email
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Methaporn Singhanan

  • Title
    • PhD Student
  • Department
    • History of Art/Visual Culture
  • Campus Email
  • Summary of Expertise
    • Textile Curation; Buddhist Art and Buddhist Manuscript Textiles from Mainland Southeast Asia; Southeast Asian Art history; Cultural Heritage Preservation; Transregional Commerce; Economic History

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Jacob Sirhan

  • Title
    • PhD Student
  • Department
    • History of Art/Visual Culture
  • Campus Email
  • Summary of Expertise
    • Contemporary Art of Palestine and the SWANA Region, Palestinian Visual Culture, Art as Resistance, Palestinian Futurism(s), Speculative Fiction and Sci-Fi

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Matthew Harrison Tedford

  • Title
    • PhD Candidate/Teaching Fellow
  • Department
    • History of Art/Visual Culture
  • Campus Email
  • Summary of Expertise
    • Contemporary art, new media, film, animation, ecocriticism, landscape studies, critical plant studies, colonialism, gender and feminist studies.

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Axelle Toussaint

  • Title
    • PhD Candidate
  • Department
    • History of Art/Visual Culture
  • Campus Email
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Jeppe Ugelvig

  • Title
    • Ph.D. Student
  • Department
    • History of Art/Visual Culture
  • Campus Email
  • Summary of Expertise
    • commercial society and consumer culture; globalization; modern and contemporary art; authorship and originality; labor studies; fashion; digital culture; curatorial studies

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Connie Zheng

  • Title
    • PhD Candidate
  • Department
    • History of Art/Visual Culture
  • Campus Email
  • Summary of Expertise
    • 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

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Last modified: Sep 23, 2025