Phd Profiles

Naomi has worked in South Africa, Japan, Australia and Canada as a researcher, producer, journalist and teacher. She holds a BA in Psychology from the University of British Columbia and completed her MA in...

Naomi has worked in South Africa, Japan, Australia and Canada as a researcher, producer, journalist and teacher. She holds a BA in Psychology from the University of British Columbia and completed her MA in Media Studies at Concordia University. Her thesis focused on race and representation in the media, highlighting mixed-race representation in film. Her current research focuses on cultural memory and the processes of memorialization. web site

Solon was previously a Program Associate at the Russell Sage Foundation, where he helped administer major research initiatives on intercultural contact, social inequality, and the social and...

Solon was previously a Program Associate at the Russell Sage Foundation, where he helped administer major research initiatives on intercultural contact, social inequality, and the social and political consequences of the war on terror. Earlier, he served as Deputy Editor of Millennium: Journal of International Studies, housed at the London School of Economics, where he also obtained his MSc in International Relations. His master's thesis, "De/re/coding Security in 'Societies of Control:' Data-mining as Political Practice," was recently published in a special issue of the St Antony's International Review on "The Internet: Power and Governance in a Digitised World," which he also presented at a related conference co-hosted by the Oxford Internet Institute. Barocas graduated from Brown University with a BA in Art-Semiotics and International Relations. At the University's Watson Institute for International Studies, he worked for over two years on the Information, Technology, War, and Peace Project.

Having completed her undergraduate work at the American University of Paris (in Philosophy and Film Studies), Jamie went on to pursue an MA in Cinema Studies...

Having completed her undergraduate work at the American University of Paris (in Philosophy and Film Studies), Jamie went on to pursue an MA in Cinema Studies at Tisch/NYU. Some of her many research interests include the cinema of Jean Rouch, ethnographic and documentary film, the Nigerian video film industry (Nollywood), visual epistemology, and theories of the archive.

Kate is interested in image and text, the visible word and other systems of notation. While she does work on graffiti and comics, her focus...

Kate is interested in image and text, the visible word and other systems of notation. While she does work on graffiti and comics, her focus is currently on typography.

Song's primary research interest is in the practices and production photojournalism. She is currently focusing that research towards photographic archives and the way in which they serve...

Song's primary research interest is in the practices and production photojournalism. She is currently focusing that research towards photographic archives and the way in which they serve as a supplement to experience. She is also interested in the way in which photographic archives create notions of national identity, citizenship, and conversely, exclusion.

Marco was born and raised in Rome, where he earned a BA/MA in Literature and Philosophy from the University La Sapienza in 1996. Since then he as been a contributor to various national Italian dailies and...

Marco was born and raised in Rome, where he earned a BA/MA in Literature and Philosophy from the University La Sapienza in 1996. Since then he as been a contributor to various national Italian dailies and magazines including L'Unità, D La Repubblica delle Donne, Repubblica.it, and Rai.it. In 2003, along with co-author Giuseppe Marano, he wrote the book Net.Art: L'arte della Connessione (Milano: Shake). Marco has also been involved with the organization of the net culture festival Digital-Is-Not-Analog (d-i-n-a.net) and of the culture jamming festival The Influencers (theinfluencers.org). In 2007 he received a grant from the Council for Media & Culture to program the NYU conference Radars & Fences. Research interests include history of the avant-gardes; culture jamming as mythmaking; tactical media, net art, and other social uses of new media.

Hatim received his BA in Psychology at Rutgers University; MA in Culture & Communication at NYU. Hatim is interested in visual cultures of post-colonial situations, and other forms of inter/disconnectedness. He is also...

Hatim received his BA in Psychology at Rutgers University; MA in Culture & Communication at NYU. Hatim is interested in visual cultures of post-colonial situations, and other forms of inter/disconnectedness. He is also broadly interested in pop cultures, visual technologies, cultural geography, and especially systems and representations of cultural and physical boundaries/edges. Hatim remains fascinated by flights of imagination. He has previously worked in advertising in the Middle East, and briefly in film.

Kari holds a B.A. in art history from UC Berkeley and a master's degree from the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU (thesis: "Masculinity in the Crosshairs: National Wounds in...

Kari holds a B.A. in art history from UC Berkeley and a master's degree from the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU (thesis: "Masculinity in the Crosshairs: National Wounds in the Photography from the Iraq War"). Her broad concern is the role of the visual in the production of social and cultural truths. Her areas of interest include national identity, cultural citizenship, historiography, consumer culture and visual consumption, violence, photography, and the politics of representation. Kari has worked as a performance artist, a bartender, a director of a non-profit arts organization, a janitor, an art dealer, a researcher, a headhunter for the design and advertising industries, and a labor organizer.

Jennifer studies existential evidence. Arising from a decade-long study of phenomenology, authenticity and realism and from a deep desire to unite theory with lived experience, the concept unfolded...

Jennifer studies existential evidence. Arising from a decade-long study of phenomenology, authenticity and realism and from a deep desire to unite theory with lived experience, the concept unfolded through a series of ethnographic experiments attempting to dissect embodied wanderlust. She hopes to expand these cursory observations into a full investigation of the practices of experiencing, narrating and representing travel.

Carolyn is currently writing her dissertation on “Synthetic Color: Electronic Signal Processing & The Reconfiguration of Perception at the End of the Twentieth Century.” This project...

Carolyn is currently writing her dissertation on “Synthetic Color: Electronic Signal Processing & The Reconfiguration of Perception at the End of the Twentieth Century.” This project investigates the role of electronic, computer generated color in electronic art made from the post-war period through the present. Her research fields include philosophy, color theory, and new media. web site

Ami received her BA with Honors in Comparative Literature and Visual Art at Brown University and her MFA in Media Design at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea. She has also...

Ami received her BA with Honors in Comparative Literature and Visual Art at Brown University and her MFA in Media Design at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea. She has also spent a semester each at Universite Paris-Sorbonne (art history and comparative literature) and in NYU’s department of Art and Art Professions (studio art) as an exchange student. When not reading or writing, she devotes her time to artistic practice. Research interests lie in the intersections between art and technology, visual and material Culture, image and text, and the traditional and new media. Relevant topics would include media art, pop art, and obsessive compulsive handcrafted work in reaction to new media, personality and activism in digital environments, and participatory elements of multimedia performance and projects including interactive or do-it-yourself aesthetics.

Max's academic and artistic work focuses on trash as a metric and site of intersection for environmentalisms, capitalism, consumerism, and activism. She has presented at conferences, conducted workshops, and...

Max's academic and artistic work focuses on trash as a metric and site of intersection for environmentalisms, capitalism, consumerism, and activism. She has presented at conferences, conducted workshops, and had solo and group art exhibitions in Canada, the United States, and Ireland. She received her BFA with distinction from Mount Allison University, NB, Canada, and her MFA with a certificate of cultural studies from SUNY Stony Brook, NY. web site

Haley is an artist based in New York City. Mellin received her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 2003 with a BFA and subsequently was admitted...

Haley is an artist based in New York City. Mellin received her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 2003 with a BFA and subsequently was admitted into the Whitney Museum of American Art ISP. She received a doctorate at New York University in Visual Studies. Her work is exhibited internationally and features in several prominent collections. She has curated a number of exhibitions in regards to contemporary art in various New York galleries, museums, and alternative spaces including the Palais de Tokyo, MoMA, and RENTAL. Her work is present in major museums in North America and Europe. Recent exhibitions include the SculptureCenter New York, the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris and Art in General, New York. Mellin’s paintings reference the historicity of painting, the place of trade, and the image as object. Her early influences include artists such as Francis Bacon, Jasper Johns, and Kazimir Malevich. web site

Paul's research interests focus on culture and consumption – the ways in which culture is consumed, the ways in which consumption becomes culture, and, particularly, the technologies that mediate...

Paul's research interests focus on culture and consumption – the ways in which culture is consumed, the ways in which consumption becomes culture, and, particularly, the technologies that mediate cultural production and consumption. Before pursuing his PhD, Paul spent 10 years working in communications across five countries and several industries, including information technology, telecommunications, and international development. Paul holds undergraduate degrees in mathematics (thesis " Applications of Moving Mesh Methods to 2D Orthogonal Grid Generation") and Spanish literature (theses "Vispera del gozo: Hacia una lectura posmoderna / posfeminista de la vanguardia española," and "Amores de segunda mano: Disidencia sexual/textual en los cuentos de Enrique Serna"), with honors in both.

Nadja holds a BA from Bard College in history and human rights (thesis: The Rat: Collectivity, Autonomy and Aesthetic Form in a Lower East Underground Newspaper, 1968-1971). Before pursuing her doctoral degree, Nadja...

Nadja holds a BA from Bard College in history and human rights (thesis: The Rat: Collectivity, Autonomy and Aesthetic Form in a Lower East Underground Newspaper, 1968-1971). Before pursuing her doctoral degree, Nadja worked as a media analyst and a research assistant; monitoring the morning news on broadcast television and conducting research on the International Center of Photography's collection of posters by the Art Workers Coalition, respectively. Nadja thus remains interested in the interplay between contemporary everyday life and the history of radical thought. Her broad interests include visual culture, affect theory, memory studies, utopian politics, queer theory and archival research. Her recent work focuses on the mobilization/memorialization of radical movements of the past in contemporary art and activist practices. Nadja is currently quite seduced by the films of David Wojnarowicz.

Dacia is a writer and visual artist who studied painting and biochemistry at Carleton College, where she earned her B.A. in Studio Art in 1998. She later received her MA in...

Dacia is a writer and visual artist who studied painting and biochemistry at Carleton College, where she earned her B.A. in Studio Art in 1998. She later received her MA in Visual Studies at the California College of the Arts (CCA) in 2003 where she wrote her thesis on representations of race in advertising. Her current research interests include visual representations of race during the Enlightenment and the social and political role of the royal body. web site

Dacia is a writer and visual artist who studied painting and biochemistry at Carleton College, where she earned her B.A. in Studio Art in 1998. She later received her MA in...

Dacia is a writer and visual artist who studied painting and biochemistry at Carleton College, where she earned her B.A. in Studio Art in 1998. She later received her MA in Visual Studies at the California College of the Arts (CCA) in 2003 where she wrote her thesis on representations of race in advertising. Her current research interests include visual representations of race during the Enlightenment and the social and political role of the royal body. web site

Wazhmah's broad area of interest is cultural contestations as they manifest into politically charged debates in mediated public spheres. More specifically, her research looks at...

Wazhmah's broad area of interest is cultural contestations as they manifest into politically charged debates in mediated public spheres. More specifically, her research looks at the politics of representation and visual culture around issues and imagery pertaining to "The War On Terror" and "Afghan Women" and how they reverberate globally. Her dissertation "Thinking Outside the Box: Television and Gender in the Afghan Culture Wars" takes a media ethnographic approach to studying how the Post 9/11 mediascape of Afghanistan is constituting gender subjectivities in the daily lives of Afghans. Wazhmah earned a Masters in Near Eastern Studies also from New York University (Thesis: "Contentious Births: Modernity and Gender Rights in Afghanistan") and two BAs in English and Film from Rutgers University. She has also completed the innovative Graduate Program in Culture and Media through NYU Anthropology. She travels frequently between Kabul and NYC.

Elizabeth received her BA degree from New York University and her MA degree in the area of Psychology and the Arts from Drexel University. Her research interests include...

Elizabeth received her BA degree from New York University and her MA degree in the area of Psychology and the Arts from Drexel University. Her research interests include vernacular architecture, urban spaces, politics of tourism, visual Culture, and discourses on sexuality, gender, public/private and identity.

Magdalena is a first year PhD student at NYU. She is a graduate of University of Toronto (BA) and University of Amsterdam (MA). She was born in Poland, but also lived in Canada, The Netherlands and France. Her research interests include...

Magdalena is a first year PhD student at NYU. She is a graduate of University of Toronto (BA) and University of Amsterdam (MA). She was born in Poland, but also lived in Canada, The Netherlands and France. Her research interests include feminism, sexuality, the body, discourse analysis, visual theory, aesthetics and urban spaces. She is a visual artist with a strong interest in art theory and museology. Magdalena has worked in various fields: teaching, gallery, editing, research and translation. In her spare time she is learning French and writing a short story book.

Scott's research and teaching interests include visual culture, critical theory, cultural memory, science, technology, and medicine, and cultural studies. His dissertation explores...

Scott's research and teaching interests include visual culture, critical theory, cultural memory, science, technology, and medicine, and cultural studies. His dissertation explores the visual Culture, of Alzheimer's disease, focusing in particular on the intersections of cognition, age, and bioethics. Scott also has a background in film and radio production and as a curator and programmer at film festivals and museums. He earned his BA in Art History from Williams College and his MA in Communication Studies (with an emphasis on media and cultural studies) from UNC Chapel Hill.

Rachelle's research focuses on the circulation of discourses and images of Africa within American culture through the lens of philanthropy. Other research interests include the branding of...

Rachelle's research focuses on the circulation of discourses and images of Africa within American culture through the lens of philanthropy. Other research interests include the branding of social activism; gendered representations in the media; gender, media and sport; and culture jamming. She also has an interest in the experiences of students of color in higher education, and has directed minority recruitment for Sarah Lawrence College's Office of Admissions as well as served as Co-Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholars Program at New York University. MA, Women's History, Sarah Lawrence College; BA, Political Science/Women's Studies, University of Vermont.