PhD students and candidates based at UC San Diego are part of a joint PhD program with UC Irvine. As part of the joint program, Theatre and Dance PhDs teach and receive funding from UC San Diego, but are able to take courses at either institution. Click on the profiles below to read more about each student/candidate. To learn more about UC San Diego's Joint PhD Program with UC Irvine, visit the PhD Program page.
Fifth-year PhD student with research focus in Ancient Mediterranean performance, female power and patriarchal historiography in the ancient world, gender and performances of power, early modern theatre and politics, and performances of divinity.
Third-year PhD student with research focus in performance studies and dance studies with a particular interest in spectacle and spectatorship of 20th century embodied performance by women as well as the performativity of materiality and objects in relation to women's quotidians.
Fifth-year PhD student with research focus in representations of tradition in dance performances, theorization of the body as a material heritage, culture and body as commodity and spectacle, working at the intersection of Dance/Performance studies, Cultural studies, Postcolonial studies, and Korean studies.
Eighth-year PhD candidate with research focus in Acting theory, acting pedagogy, communication theory, and applied theatre.
Fourth-year PhD student with research focus in African theater, African American theater, Afrocentricity, race and performance in theater pedagogy, cultural competency, critical race theory, and social justice work in theater education.
Third-year PhD student with research focus in phenomenological impacts of diaspora Boricua and Afro Caribbean performance arts.