
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.
Rachel Bonner
- Title
- PhD Candidate
- Department
- History of Art/Visual Culture
- Campus Email
Marion Wimberg Cadora
- Campus Email

Angel Yun Er Chan
- Campus Email

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
Madeline Reverie Drace
- Title
- PhD student
- Department
- History of Art/Visual Culture
- Campus Email
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
Miguel Eduardo Fernandez
- Title
- PhD Student
- Department
- History of Art/Visual Culture
- Campus Email
- Summary of Expertise
Skateboarding Visual Culture, Youth Studies, Photography, Cinema
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.
Mirra-Margarita Ianeva
- Title
- PhD student
- Department
- History of Art/Visual Culture
- Campus Email
Aaron Samuel Mulenga
- Title
- n/a
- Department
- History of Art/Visual Culture
- Campus Email
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.
LuLing Osofsky
- Title
- PhD Candidate
- Department
- History of Art/Visual Culture
- Campus Email
Maya Cristina Ramirez
- Campus Email

Stacy Rebecca Schwartz
- Title
- PhD Candidate
- Department
- History of Art/Visual Culture
- Campus Email
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
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
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.
Axelle Toussaint
- Title
- PhD Candidate
- Department
- History of Art/Visual Culture
- Campus Email

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
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