Doctoral Programs
Media, Culture, and Communication | NYU Steinhardt
The MCC PhD degree is an interdisciplinary degree program that examines the intersecting fields of media studies, cultural studies, and communication. Students can focus in this degree on visual culture and with specific engagement in areas of study such as globalization, digital media, and cultural memory.
- Faculty include: Nicholas Mirzoeff, Marita Sturken, Allen Feldman, Alexander Galloway, Susan Murray, Erica Robles, Aurora Wallace.
Performance Studies | Tisch School of the Arts
The Performance Studies Ph.D. focuses on an in-depth study of performance studies from an interdisciplinary perspective.
- Faculty include: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Jose Munoz, Karen Shimakawa, Diana Taylor.
Cinema Studies | Tisch School of the Arts
The Cinema Studies Ph.D. prepares students for scholarly careers in film, TV and media studies. It draws on the methods of a number of disciplines, including art history, cultural studies, American studies, psychoanalytic theory, and philosophy.
- Faculty include: Jonathan Kahana, Anna McCarthy, Dana Polan, Robert Stam.
Master's Programs
Media, Culture, and Communication | NYU Steinhardt
The MCC masters program has a focus on Visual Culture and Culture Studies, and students receive foundations in visual culture theory as well as media and cultural theory. The program emphasizes the changing context of media in relation to issues of culture, technology, and politics.
- Faculty include: Nicholas Mirzoeff, Marita Sturken, Allen Feldman, Alexander Galloway, Susan Murray, Erica Robles, Aurora Wallace.
Arts Politics, Art and Public Policy | Tisch School of the Arts
The Arts Politics masters program is an activist, critical, interdisciplinary program for artists and those working in the intellectual and institutional domains of art to enhance and elaborate the value and significance of their creative endeavors through intensive study, reflection, and engagement with the university and the world.
- Faculty include: Ella Shohat, Randy Martin, Karen Finley, Annie Cohen-Solal.
Performance Studies | Tisch School of the Arts
The Performance Studies MA program offers a solid foundation in performance studies scholarship with possible emphases in cultural studies and visual studies. Graduates of the MA program are currently pursuing careers as artists, writers, researchers, editors, performers, choreographers, directors, arts administrators, archivists, curators, radio broadcasters, and teachers.
- Faculty include: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Jose Munoz, Karen Shimakawa, Diana Taylor
Cinema Studies | Tisch School of the Arts
The Cinema Studies MA program provides students with an advanced course of study in the history, theory, and criticism of motion pictures. Graduates from the M.A. in Cinema Studies program have gone on to successful careers as film curators, programmers, preservationists, as well as film critics, instructors, screenwriters, filmmakers and industry professionals.
- Faculty include: Jonathan Kahana, Anna McCarthy, Dana Polan, Robert Stam
Museum Studies | Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
The Museum Studies MA program offers an innovative course of study in the contemporary theory and practice of museum work, emphasizing both the interdisciplinary study of museums and courses of practical training.
- Faculty include: Bruce Altshuler, Miriam Basilio, Haidy Geismar.
Visual Arts Administration, Art and Art Professions | NYU Steinhardt
The Visual Arts Administration MA program focuses specifically on administrative careers in the visual arts, in both traditional and alternative contexts. Taking into account the cultural and economic impact of the visual arts, nationally and internationally, the program prepares administrators who can adapt to the rapidly changing demands of the field.
- Faculty include: Carlo Lamagna, Sandra Lang, Melissa Rachleff Burtt.
Art Education, Art and Art Professions | NYU Steinhardt
The Art Education MA program is designed for students who wish to pursue graduate-level professional training as artist-teachers in public and private schools, museums, community-based programs, and other alternative educational sites. With special focus on contemporary art and its social context, the program conceptualizes the artist-teacher as cultural producer, intellectual, and activist.
- Faculty include: Dipti Desai, David Darts.
Visual Culture: Costume Studies, Art and Art Professions | NYU Steinhardt
The Visual Culture: Costumes Studies MA program emphasizes the relation of costume studies to material culture and the fine and decorative arts. The curriculum includes courses in exhibition and museum topics; art theory and criticism; and the decorative arts.
- Faculty include: Nancy Diehl.
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