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.

Visual Cultures of Southeast Asian and its diaspora, textiles of the Malay archipelago, gender and queer studies, embodiment, multisensory experiences, cross exchanges and translations

Art of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia; Sinophone cinema

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

Skateboarding culture, youth studies, photography histories and discourse, cinema studies and psychoanalysis

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. 

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.

Mysticism and religious mythology, Catholic Baroque and Neo-Baroque art, Gender, sexuality and spectatorship.

Textile Curation, Buddhist Art and Buddhist Manuscript Textiles from Mainland Southeast Asia, Southeast Asian Art history, Cultural Heritage Preservation, Transregional Commerce, Economic History

Contemporary Art of Palestine and the SWANA Region, Palestinian Visual Culture, Art as Resistance, Palestinian Futurism(s), Speculative Fiction and Sci-Fi

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

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