Visual Studies Alumni
Lucena Lau Valle (Graduated: 2021)Jessica Ziegenfuss (Graduated: 2021)B.A., Art History, San Francisco State University, CA
M.S., Art History, Pratt Institute, NY
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: California Humanities
Advisor: Cécile Whiting
Research Interests: Museum studies, urban studies, cultural political economy, Latina & Latino studies, Asian American studies, Los Angeles, cultural memory and public humanities
Benjamin Aaron (Graduated: 2020)B.A. (with honors) Women's Studies and History of Art, The Ohio State University
M.A., Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, The Ohio State UniversityAdvisor: James Nisbet
Dissertation: The Matter of Eva Hesse: Industrial Collage, Latex, and Plastics within Post-War Material Culture, 1964-1969.
Research Interests: Feminist and queer theory, critical theory, ecological studies of art, postminimalism, issues of materiality and art, scientific experimentation in art, and the history of synthetics and the petrochemical industry
Website: https://jziegenfuss.weebly.com
B.A., Japanese Literature, University of FloridaFinley Freibert (Graduated: 2019)
M.A. (with distinction), Japanese Language and Culture, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvineDissertation: "To Die Not Holding a Gun, But a Paintbrush: Kazuki Yasuo and Representations of War in Postwar Japanese Art"
Advisor: Bert Winther-Tamaki
Research Interests: Post-WWII Japanese visual arts, trauma Studies, memory/memorialization, representation of trauma/atrocities, cultural memory, avant-garde/modernism, East-West dialectical influences
Tavleen Kaur (Graduated: 2019)B.A., DePauw University, Greencastle, IN
M.A., University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
Ph.D., Applied and Industrial Mathematics, University of LouisvillePlacement: University of Louisville
Dissertation: "Obscenity Regulation and Film Exhibition: Policing Gay and Feminist Media Industries in Southern California, 1960 to 1979."
Advisor: Bliss Cua Lim
Dissertation: "Obscenity Regulation and Film Exhibition: Policing Gay and Feminist Media Industries in Southern California, 1960 to 1979."
Research Interests: Queer Studies and Histories, Media Industry Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Film and Media Histories, Media Censorship and Regulation, Digital Media, Cultures of Circulation and Access
Publications: Freibert, Finley. “Scream Queens and Queer Dreams: The Politics of Monotony and Zoning Out in Jesús Franco’s Direct-to-Video Productions.” The Films of Jess Franco. Ed. Antonio Lázaro-Reboll and Ian Olney. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2018. Print.
[Published August 20, 2018.]
Website: https://uci.academia.edu/FinleyFreibert
B.A., University of North Carolina-CharlotteBenjamin Kruger-Robbins (Graduated: 2019)
M.S., Architectural History & Theory, University of Washington
M.S., History & Theory of Architecture, University of MichiganAdvisor: Bridget Cooks
Dissertation: "Sikh Diasporic Necropolitics: Hate Violence Against Bodies and Buildings in the Age of Empire"
Research Interests: How the bodies and buildings of ethno-religious minority communities become victims of hate violence. In particular, she looks at how the contemporary Sikh American community has been racialized and victimized due to state violence in the form of Islamophobic rhetoric and policies; Sikh American community’s buildings (gurdwara) becoming targets of racist graffiti, vandalism, and arson, as fueled by Islamophobic and xenophobic hate speech and policy. She examines how the Sikh American community reproduces narratives of nationhood and belonging and how it challenges various tropes of state violence that target its bodies and buildings.
Mary Schmitt (Graduated: 2019)B.S. (with highest honors), Radio-Television-Film, University of Texas, Austin
M.A., Radio-Television-Film, University of Texas, AustinPlacement: University of California, Irvine
Advisor(s): Victoria E. Johnson; Allison Perlman; Jennifer Terry
Dissertation: “Queering and Qualifying the Wasteland: Network Television, Awards Discourse, and Gay Legitimation in Primetime from 1971-1997” Website: https://uci.academia.edu/BenjaminKrugerRobbins
Advisor: Victoria Johnson
Research Interests: Television and LGBTQ studies, marginalized audiences, network branding, and critical race theory
Dissertation: “Queering and Qualifying the Wasteland: Network Television, Awards Discourse, and Gay Legitimation in Primetime from 1971-1997”
Website: https://uci.academia.edu/BenjaminKrugerRobbins
Meredith Goldsmith (Graduated: 2018)B.A., (with university honors) Art History, University of Illinois at Chicago
M.A., Humanities, University of ChicagoAdvisor(s): Allison Perlman; Bridget Cooks; Sohail Daulatzai
Dissertation: (Neo) liberal Re-writings of Black Radical Memory in Television Documentary: 1989-1995
Advisor: Allison Perlman
Dissertation: "Neoliberalism and Black Radical Memory in Popular Culture"
Research Interests: Race and political economy in popular culture, cultural memory, black radical politics and cultural production, postcolonial theory and cultural studies, African and African diaspora art and politics
Publications: “By Any Means Necessary” A Neoliberal Sound Byte? The Memory of Malcolm
X in the 1990s CBS Documentary Malcolm X: The Real Story.” Black Camera:
An International Film Journal 9, no. 2 (Spring 2018): 10-32.
Website: https://uci.academia.edu/MarySchmitt
Anirban Gupta-Nigam (Graduated: 2018)B.A., Art History, California State University, Chico
M.A., Visual Studies, California College of the Arts
Ph.D, Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: Cerritos College, California
Advisor: Bridget R. Cooks
Dissertation: “White-Collar Artists: John Baldessari, Andrea Fraser, and Fred Wilson in Art Schools and Museums”
Research Interests: Contemporary art since 1970, museum studies, theories and sociologies of work, pedagogy of art and craft, globalization discourse, South Asia visual culture
B.A. (with honors), History, University of DelhiKayleigh Perkov (Graduated: 2018)
M.A., Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University
M.Phil, Cinema Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru UniversityAdvisors: Lucas Hilderbrand and Bliss Cua Lim
Research Interests: Media and environmental studies, technologies of interiority, obviousness and the mundane
Corella di Fede (Graduated: 2017)B.A., (cum laude with college and departmental honors) Art History and Women's Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Visual Studies at the University of California, IrvinePlacement: at the Manetti Shrem Museum at U.C. Davis
Advisor: Cécile Whiting
Dissertation: “Giving Form to Feedback: Craft and Technology circa 1968-1974”
Research Interests: ”Craft, design, and the decorative arts, history of technology, and feminist art history"
Website: http://kayleighperkov.com
B.A. with honors, Modern Literary Studies, University of California, Santa CruzGraham Eng-Wilmot (Graduated: 2017)
M.A., Cinema and Media Studies, University of California, Los AngelesAdvisor(s): Lucas Hilderbrand
Dissertation: "Bio-logics of bodily transformation: Bioscience, Neoliberalism And Makeover TV"
Research Interests: Critical theory, science and the arts, media theory and history, world cinema and global visual culture, gender studies, the body, urban space
B.A., Journalism, University of RichmondRacquel M. Gonzales (Graduated: 2017)
M.A., Communication, Culture & Technology, Georgetown University
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland
Advisor(s): Bridget R. Cooks
Dissertation: "Universal People: Audiovisual Experiments in Black Science Futurism, 1980-1986"
Research Interests: Afrofuturism, representations of blackness, cultural memory, archives, electronic music, the 1980s
Website: https://uci.academia.edu/GrahamEngWilmot
B.A., magna cum laude, Cinematic Arts (Critical Studies), University of Southern CaliforniaRyan Gurney (Graduated: 2017)
M.A., Media Studies, University of Texas at AustinPlacement: University of California, Irvine
Advisor(s): Peter Krapp
Dissertation: "Playing Detective: Procedure, Reenactment, and Crime-Solving Technologies"
Research Interests: Historiography/histories of technology, cultural memory, digital media, game studies, museums and exhibition, gender studies, consumer culture and nostalgia
Jason Huber (Graduated: 2017)B.A., Art History, California State University, Stanislaus
M.A., Art History, San Francisco State University
University of California, IrvinePlacement: University of California, Irvine
Advisor(s): Amy Powell
Dissertation: The Manner of the Country: Dutch Cityscape Paintings and Urban Citizenship in the Seventeenth Century
Research Interests: Dutch painting, early modern urbanism
B.A., Art History, Philosophy, Women's & Gender Studies, Case Western Reserve UniversityLaura Beltz Imaoka (Graduated: 2016)Advisor(s): Cécile Whiting
Dissertation: “Pathopolitics: Feminist Performance Art, Biopolitics, and Affect in the 1970s”
Research Interests: Contemporary art and media, gender and sexuality, feminist theory, queer theory, critical race theory, postcolonial theory, phenomenology and embodiment, affect and subjectivity/experience, taste and aesthetics, exhibition and reception, existentialism
B.A. summa cum lade, Anthropology and Art History, University of California, Santa BarbaraAnna Kryczka (Graduated: 2016)
M.A., Anthropology, California State University, Northridge
Ph.D. University of California, IrvinePlacement: The University of Texas at Dallas
Advisor(s): Peter Krapp
Dissertation: 'Mapping Risk: Geographic Information Systems as Disaster Media'
Research Interests: Media studies, critical GIS studies, environmental film and media, science and technology studies, critical studies of marketing, U.S.-Japan relations
Website: www.laurabeltzimaoka.com
Awards & Fellowships:
Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship
Publications:
'Rain with a Chance of Radiation: Forecasting Local and Global Risk after Fukushima.' In Extreme Weather and Global Media, edited by D. Negra and J. Leyda, 191-214. New York and London: Routledge. 2015.
'GIS: Making Location Valuable.' Media Fields Journal, Issue 6, 2013.
'Pixels and Post-Tourism.' In Media Res, February 28, 2011.
'The Ambassadors of Cute: Helping or Hurting Japan’s Global Image?' In Media Res, April 27, 2011.
'Consuming and Maintaining Difference: American Fans Resisting the Globalization of Japanese Popular Culture.' disClosure 19: 73-82, 2010.
'American Fans Resisting the Globalization of Japanese Popular Culture?' Otaku2, July 17, 2008.
B.A. with honors, Art History, Knox CollegePeter Schweigert (Graduated: 2016)
M.A., Art History, Theory, and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Ph.D. University of California, IrvinePlacement: Pasadena City College
Advisor(s): Cécile Whiting
Dissertation: On Taste and Nation
Publications:
“TV and Taste on the New Frontier: A Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy” History and Technology: An International Journal (July 2014).
Learning by Doing at the Farm: Craft, Science, and Counterculture in Modern California Chicago: Soberscove Press, 2014. With Robert Kett.
“Performing the Pedagogical Parergon: Our Literal Speed in Chicago” Journal of Visual Culture (August 2010).
“Deference to the Vernacular” Art21 (December 9, 2009).
http://pasadena.academia.edu/AnnaKryczka
B.A., English/Music, Calvin CollegeJenna Weinman (Graduated: 2016)
M.F.A., Film Studies, Boston University; M.A. Visual Studies Ph.D. Program, University of California, Irvine
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: University of California, Santa Cruz
Advisor(s): Bliss Cua Lim
Dissertation: “A World Apart: Apophasis and Avisuality in the American Avant-Garde”.
Research Interests: Theories of signification and engagement; modern and avant garde film; religion and art; the invisible, immaterial, ephemeral.
Publications:
“Engaging the Invisible: An Introduction.” Octopus Journal, Volume 5: Invisibility (2011).
Awards:
UCI School of Humanities Summer Dissertation Fellowship, 2012
UCI Humanities Center Graduate Student Research Grant, 2011
B.A., Video Communications, Arcadia UniversityMeghan Chandler (Graduated: 2015)
M.A., American Studies, Lehigh University
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: Jenna Weinman Consulting
Advisor(s): Kristen Hatch
Dissertation: “Romantic Comedy and Revolt in the Fifties and Fifty Years Later”
B.A. summa cum laude, Cinema & Cultural Studies (honors) and Psychology, SUNY Stony BrookKristen Galvin (Graduated: 2015)
M.A., Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: Norco College
Advisor(s): Lucas Hilderbrand
Dissertation: “The Three Faces of Acetate: A Material and Cultural History of Celluloid Acetate Plastic in Biomedicine, Photo-cinematic Imaging, and Preservation”
B.A. with honors, Visual Arts, Brown UniversityChristina Spiker (Graduated: 2015)
M.A., Modern and Contemporary Art History, Criticism and Theory, Purchase College, SUNY
M.F.A., Studio Art, Concentration in Video, Purchase College, SUNY
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Advisor(s): Lucas Hilderbrand
Dissertation: “The Art of Parties: Downtown New York Cultural Scenes, 1978–1983”
Publications:
“The Nova Convention: A New Wave Conference Like None Other,” essay in the anthology,
The Burroughs Century (working title), Indiana University Press (forthcoming in 2015)
“TV Party: Downtown New York Scenes Live on Your TV Screen.” Sonic Visions: Popular
Music on and after Television, special issue of Journal of Popular Music Studies. 25.3 (2013): 326–348. Print, 2013
“It’s TV Party Time, Not Prime Time!” On My Video Phone: Popular Music on Screens.
IASPM-US Website. 17 July 2013. Web.
Kim, Jihoon F., and Kristen Galvin. “An Interview with Simon Penny: Techno-Utopianism, Embodied
Interaction and the Aesthetics of Behavior.” Leonardo Electronic Almanac. 17.2 (2012): 136–145. Print, 2012
http://www.kristengalvin.com/
B.A. with honors, East Asian Studies, Minor in Japanese, Ursinus CollegeCindy Urrutia (Graduated: 2015)
M.A. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: St. Catherine University, MN
Advisor(s): Bert Winther-Tamaki
Dissertation: “Primitive Picturesque: Ainu Representation in a Transnational Visual Economy, 1868-1926”
Website: http://www.cmspiker.com/
B.A., Economics & International Relations, Boston UniversityDiana Anselmo-Sequeira (Graduated: 2014)
M.A., Art History, California State University, Los Angeles
Ph.D., Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: Center for Creativity and the Arts at California State University, Fresno
Advisor(s): Cécile Whiting
https://www.facebook.com/CCAFresnoState
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvineDavid Goetz (Graduated: 2014)Placement: University of Pittsburgh, PA
Advisor(s): Kristen Hatch
Dissertation: “Gasps of Violet Ink:” American Movie Fandom and Adolescent Girlhood in the 1910s”
Placement: Postdoctoral fellow in Film Studies at the University of Pittsburgh
Website: http://danselmo8.wix.com/dianaanselmosequeira
B.A. University of HoustonSusan King Obarski (Graduated: 2014)
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: College of the Desert, Palm Desert, CA
Advisor(s): Cécile Whiting
Dissertation: Six Artistic Perspectives from the Vietnamese American Diaspora in Southern California.
B.F.A., Two-Dimensional Arts, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillLara Schweller (Graduated: 2014)
M.F.A., Studio Art, Concentration in Painting, University of Southern California
M.A., History of Art, University of California, Riverside
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: Laguna College of Art and Design, Laguna Beach, CA
Advisor(s): James Herbert
Dissertation: "Surrealism: a Marxist Enterprise in 1930s London"
Research Interests: Modern art, British art, documentary film, critical theory, design, text and image, contemporary and radical art, gender and sexuality.
B.A., Comparative Literature, Harvard UniversityErik Watschke (Graduated: 2014)
M.A., Program in Visual Studies
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Advisor(s): Victoria E. Johnson
Dissertation: "Motherhood 2.0: Digital Motherhood as Visual Culture"
Research Interests: Relationships between new media and the body, public space, and motion, Comparative arts, 20th century culture and cultural revolutions.
B.A. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MNAmy Scott (Graduated: 2013)
M.A. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: Humanities, Irvine Valley College
Advisor(s): Catherine Benamou
Dissertation: “Allegories of Industry and the Limits of Reflexivity in the New Hollywood, 1985-2006”
B.A., Art History, University of KansasKim Beil (Graduated: 2012)
M.A., Art History, University of Missouri
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: Autry National Center of the American West, Los Angeles, CA
Advisor(s): Cécile Whiting
Dissertation: “Printing Place: Mass Media and the Arid West, 1840-1910”
Book: Yosemite: Art of an American Icon, ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006)
B.A., Comparative Literature, Brown UniversityStacey Jean Birk (Graduated: 2012)
M.A. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: Immersion in the Arts: Living in Culture at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Advisor(s): Lucas Hilderbrand
Dissertation: “Illustrating Contingency: Photographic Reproductions in Writing on the Visual Arts”
B.A., English, Brigham Young UniversityLaura Holzman (Graduated: 2012)
M.A., Film Studies, University of Nottingham
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvineAdvisor(s): Kristen Hatch
Dissertation: "Imagination is the Queen of Truth": Fantastical Modernity and the Extra-Theatrical Cinema"
B.A. with highest honors, Art History, Swarthmore CollegeAri Lee Laskin (Graduated: 2012)
M.A. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: Public Scholar, Curatorial Practices and Visual Art at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, IN
Advisor(s): Cécile Whiting
Dissertation: “Re-placing the City Icon: Shaping Philadelphia's Image for the 21st Century”
B.A. York University, Toronto, CanadaEric Morrill (Graduated: 2012)
M.A. University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
Advisor(s): Akira Lippit and Cécile Whiting
Dissertation: “Nocturnal Omissions: The Conception of Night Vision”
B.A., Music, Concentration in Music Composition and Theory, Amherst CollegeArden Stern (Graduated: 2012)
M.A., M�tiers et Arts de l'Exposition, Universit� Rennes 2 Haute Bretagne
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: California College of the Arts, San Francisco
Advisor(s): James Herbert
B.A., Brown University, Providence, Rhode IslandPeng-yi Tai (Graduated: 2012)
M.A. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: Department of Humanities and Sciences, ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Advisor(s): Peter Krapp
Dissertation: “The Ransom Note Effect: Eclectic Typography in American Visual Culture”
Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Sciences, ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA
http://typeandform.com/
B.A., English, TaiwanShahriar Fouladi (Graduated: 2011)
M.A., Animation, Taiwan
Ph.D., Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: English Department, National Central University, Jhongli City, Taiwan
Advisor(s): Catherine Liu
Dissertation: “The Principle of Animation: History and Theory of a Social Technology”
B.A. magna cum laude, English and Film Studies, University of California, IrvineKrystal Hauseur (Graduated: 2011)
M.A., Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: Cryptozoic Entertainment
Advisor(s): Cécile Whiting
Dissertation: “Super Savior/Destroyer: Superman, Smallville, and the Superhero Genre's Spectre of Monstrosity”
B.A., History/Art History, University of California, Los AngelesKelly Kirshtner (Graduated: 2011)
M.A., Art History, emphasis in Asian American Art, San Francsisco State University
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: Independent Scholar and Curator of Asian American Art, San Diego, CA
Advisor(s): Bert Winther-Tamaki
Dissertation: “Crafted Abstraction: Three Nisei Artists and the American Studio Craft Movement: Ruth Asawa, Kay Sekimachi, and Toshiko Takaezu”
Current position: independent scholar and curator of Asian American art, in San Diego, CA
B.A. in Art History, University of California, Santa BarbaraSean Rowe (Graduated: 2011)
M.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago, M.A., UC Irvine
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Advisor(s): Fatimah Tobing Rony
Dissertation: “The Microphone on Film: Sound Collection and the Visual”
Current position: Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies of Film at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
M.A. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvineSami Siegelbaum (Graduated: 2011)
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: Santa Monica Community College, Santa Monica, CA
Advisor(s): Cécile Whiting
Dissertation: “Figuring the Landscape: The Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument and the Contested Terrain of American Historical Memory”
B.A. New York University, New York, NYKen Yoshida (Graduated: 2011)
M.A. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: Loyola, Marymount University and University of California, Los Angeles
Advisor(s): Julia Bryan-Wilson
Dissertation: “The Invisible Prison: Art, Collectivity, and Protest in 1960s France”
Current position: Visiting Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture at DePaul University, Chicago, IL
B.A., University of Michigan, Ann ArborChris Balaschak (Graduated: 2010)
M.A. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: Art History/Visual Studies at the University of California, Merced
Advisor(s): Bert Winther-Tamaki
Dissertation: “Between Matter and Ecology: Art in Postwar Japan and the Question of Totality (1954-1975)”
B.A., Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York UniversityNathan Blake (Graduated: 2010)
M.A. in Criticism and Theory, Art Center
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL
Advisor(s): Sally Stein
Dissertation: "Unstable Ground: photography books and the modern landscape, 1938-1975"
Current position: Associate Professor of Art at Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL
B.A. in Art, Hartwick CollegeStefka Hristova (Graduated: 2010)
M.A. in Media Studies, New School University
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: Northeastern University's Media and Screen Studies Program, Boston, MA
Advisor(s): Peter Krapp
Dissertation: “Camera Consciousness: The Aesthetic and Prosthetic Legacy of World War I.”
Current position: Associate Teaching Professor and Coordinator at Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Bachelor of Speech Science, Emerson College, Boston, MAYuka Kanno (Graduated: 2010)
M.A., California State University, Los Angeles, CA
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: Humanities, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI
Advisor(s): Bliss Cua Lim
Dissertation: “Visuality, Politics, and Histories in the Remaking of Iraq”
B.A., Tokyo Gakugei UniversityMariana Razo Wardwell (Graduated: 2010)
M.A., Tokyo Gakugei University
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: Associate Professor of Queer Studies and Visual Culture
Graduate School of Global Studies, Doshisha University, Kyoto, JapanAdvisor(s): Cécile Whiting
Dissertation: “Queer Female Networks in Japan's Visual Culture”
B.A. Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design in London, EnglandVanessa Schulman (Graduated: 2010)
M.A. Art University of California, Irvine
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: University of California-San Diego
Advisor(s): Fatimah Tobing Rony
Dissertation: “Zones of Disturbance: Specters of Indigenous Mexico in Modernity”
Current position: Associate Professor of Visual Arts at the University of California-San Diego
B.A., Brown University, Providence, Rhode IslandTim Seiber (Graduated: 2010)
M.A. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: George Mason University
Advisor(s): Cécile Whiting
Dissertation: “Managing Vision, Envisioning Management: Representations of Labor and Technological Systems in Gilded Age America”
Book: Work Sights: The Visual Culture of Industry in Nineteenth-Century America,
published by the University of Massachusetts Press, December 2015
Publications:
"Managing Subjects, Manufacturing Citizens: Picturing Sites of Social Control in Nineteenth-Century America," Early Popular Visual Culture 12.2 (May 2014): 104-126.
"Definite Indeterminacy: Blindness in the Civil War Imagery of Ambrose Bierce and Winslow Homer," Invisible Culture 19 (Fall 2013): ivc.lib.rochester.edu
"Making the Magazine: Visuality, Managerial Capitalism, and the Mass Production of Periodicals, 1865-1890," American Periodicals 22.1 (Spring 2012): 1-28.
B.A., University of Redlands, Redlands, CAThomas Stubblefield (Graduated: 2010)
M.A. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: Johnston Center for Integrative Studies at the University of Redlands
Advisor(s): Julia Bryan-Wilson
Dissertation: “Thresholds: Managing Life and Death through the Public Circulation of Scientific Images”
Current position: Assistant Professor of Science and Media Studies in the Johnston Center for Integrative Studies at the University of Redlands
B.A. University of South Carolina, Columbia, SCMary Trent (Graduated: 2010)
University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, Chicago, IL
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: Art History at University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth
Advisor(s): Peter Krapp
Dissertation: “Through a Lens Darkly: Absence, Erasure and Invisibility in the Visual Culture of 9/11”
Book: Thomas Stubblefield discusses 9/11 and the Visual Culture of Disaster by Indiana University Press, 2014
http://www.ipadio.com/broadcasts/iupress/2014/9/8/Thomas-Stubblefield-discusses-911-and-the-Visual-Culture-of-Disaster
B.A. University of Chicago,Nicole Woods (Graduated: 2010)
M.A. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: Deapartment of Art and Architectural History, College of Charleston, SC
Advisor(s): Cécile Whiting
Dissertation: “Enigmatic bachelors: Masculinity, girlhood, and vision in the art of Joseph Cornell and Henry Darger”
B.A., Art History, University of California, Los Angeles, CATed Barron (Graduated: 2009)
M.A. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: Art History at University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN
Advisor(s): Cécile Whiting
Dissertation: “Performing Chance: Alison Knowles, Fluxus, and the Enigmatic Work of Art”
Has been honored with 2017-2018 Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts (CASVA) at The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC
B.A. in English, Syracuse UniversityEva Friedberg (Graduated: 2009)
M.S. in Film Studies, Boston University
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: DeBartolo Performing Arts Center at the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN
Advisor(s): Fatimah Tobing Rony
Dissertation: "Actual Treatments: Performative Realism in American Independent Cinema, 1949-1970"
http://ftt.nd.edu/faculty-staff/faculty-staff-by-alpha/ted-barron/
B.A. in Visual Studies and Mass Culture, UC BerkeleyGarnet Hertz (Graduated: 2009)
M.A. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: Evari GIS Consulting, San Diego CA
Advisor(s): Julia Bryan-Wilson
Dissertation: “Action Architecture: Lawrence Halprin's Experiments in Landscape Design, Urbanism, and the Creative Process”
B.A. University Of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, CanadaCynthia Napoli-Abella Reiss (Graduated: 2009)
M.A. Arts in Arts Computation Engineering, University of California Irvine
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, Canada
Advisor(s): Peter Krapp and Mark Poster
Dissertation: “Methodologies of Reuse in the Media Arts: Exploring Black Boxes, Tactics and Archaeologies”
http://www.conceptlab.com/garnethertz/
B.A. University of California, IrvineNatalie E. Phillips (Graduated: 2009)
MA, Art History, San Francisco State University, CA
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: West Valley College, Saratoga, CA
Advisor(s): Peter Krapp
Dissertation: “Motherhood, Mourning, Testimonio, and the Representation of Silenced Histories”
B.A. University of the Pacific, Stockton, CADenise Rogers (Graduated: 2009)
M.A. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: Ball State University, Muncie, IN
Advisor(s): Cécile Whiting
Dissertation: “The Pop Apocalyptic: Keith Haring's and Kenny Scharf's Remaking of Contemporary Religious Art”
B.A. University of California, San DiegoJordy Jones (Graduated: 2008)
M.A. San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: San Diego Mesa College
Advisor(s): Bridget Cooks
Dissertation: Becoming Black Women: Eldzier Cortor's Visualization of the Black Female Body
http://homework.sdmesa.edu/drogers/
B.A. San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CAHeather Murray (Graduated: 2008)
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: Independent Scholar
Advisor(s): Cécile Whiting
Dissertation: “The Ambiguous I: Photography, Gender, Gelf”
B.A. Cal State, San Bernardino, San Bernardino, CARene Thoreau Bruckner (Graduated: 2007)
M.A. University of North Texas, Denton, TX
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Marin CA / Art Historian and Curator, Santa Rosa, California (San Francisco Bay Area)
Advisor(s): Adviser: Victoria E. Johnson
Dissertation: “Monstrous Play in Negative Spaces: The Cultural Production of Biometric Bodies”
Current position: Executive Director, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Marin, CA
http://www.heathermurray.net/
B.A. University of California, San DiegoShelleen Greene (Graduated: 2007)
M.A. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: Division of Critical Studies, School of Cinematic Arts, USC
Advisor(s): Peter Krapp
Dissertation: “The Art of Disappearance: Duration, Instantaneity, and the Conception of Cinema”
B.A. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NYJennifer Rogers (Graduated: 2007)
M.A. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: University of California, Los Angeles
Advisor(s): Fatimah Tobing Rony
Dissertation: Equivocal Subjects: Mixed-Race Identity in the Italian Cinema
Research Interests: Italian Cinema, Black European Studies, Postcolonial Studies
Shelleen Greene, PhD is an associate professor of Cinema and Media Studies in the Department of Film, Television and Media Studies in the School of Theater, Film and Television at UCLA.
B.A. George Mason UniversityTobey Crockett (Graduated: 2006)
M.A. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvineAdvisor(s): Fatimah Tobing Rony
Dissertation: “Walking after Midnight: Violence, Femininity, and Possibility”
B.A., Art History with depatmental honors, Barnard CollegeFrancesca M. Bavuso (Graduated: 2004)
M.A., Critical Theory, Art Center College of Design
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: Cambria, CA
Advisor(s): George C. Bauer
Dissertation: "The Camera as Camera: Emergent Subjectivities in 3D Virtual Worlds"
B.A. University of California, IrvineJoanna Rose Bouldin (Graduated: 2004)
M.A. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: Mendocino Music Festival, Mendocino, CA
Advisor(s): James D. Herbert
Dissertation: “The Gravity of Memory: Recollection and Forgetting at the Bibliotheque Imperiale of Napoleon III”
B.A. Art History, Emory UniversityAnalisa Leppanen-Guerra (Graduated: 2004)
M.A. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvineAdvisor(s): Akira Lippit
Dissertation: “The Animated and the Actual: Toward a Theory of Animation, Live-Action, and Everyday Life”
B.A. DePaul University, Chicago, ILBeth Rayfield (Graduated: 2004)
M.A. Art History, University of Illinois, Chicago IL
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: Chicago, IL
Advisor(s): Dickran Tashjian
Dissertation: "The Child Lost in the Garden of Time: Childhood & the Fourth Dimension in the Works of Joseph Cornell"
Book: Children's Stories and "Child-Time" in the Works of Joseph Cornell and the Transatlantic Avant-Garde (Ashgate, 2011)
http://analisaleppanenguerra.com/author/adminanalisa/
B.A. University of California, RiversideSheila Murphy (Graduated: 2002)
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: Center for Community Change, Long Beach, CA
Advisor(s): Fatimah Tobing Rony
Dissertation: "‘Her Apparent Admiration and the Intensity of Her Gaze’: Race, Class and Gender and the Stereoscopic Viewing Experience”
B.A. University of Rochester, Rochester, NYPatricia Levin (Graduated: 2001)
M.A. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Advisor(s): Anne Friedberg
Dissertation: “Lurking and Looking: Media Technologies and Cultural Convergences of Spectatorship, Voyeurism, and Surveillance”
Book: How Television Invented New Media (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2011)
B.A., Art History, University of California, Los Angeles, CAAmy Marver (Graduated: 2001)
M.A. University of Southern California
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: Art Department, Saddleback College, Mission Viejo, CA
Advisor(s): Linda Williams
Dissertation: “About turns: Minimalism to Excess in the Films of Yvonne Rainer”
http://archivefever123.wixsite.com/patricia-levin
B.A. Duke UniversityMaggie Dethloff (UCI Graduate)
M.A. University of Cincinnati
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies, University of California, IrvinePlacement: Foret + Co (European antiques business) Minneapolis, MN
Advisor(s): James Herbert
Dissertation: “Homemade Modern: MoMA, Women and the Transformation of European Modernism into American Style”
https://studioamymarver.wordpress.com/
Julian Francolino (UCI Graduate)B.A., Art History, Smith College
M.A., Visual Studies, UC IrvineAdvisor: Cécile Whiting
Research Interests: Photography, 20th-century American art, appropriation, text, especially found text, linguistics and semiotics, materiality, and death, and curatorial practice
Sharrissa Iqbal (UCI Graduate)M.A., Visual Studies, UC Irvine
Advisor: Roland Betancourt and Aglaya Glebova
Dissertation: “Variations on Monumentality: Laboring Bodies in Art and Socialism, 1935-1965”
Research Interests: Modern art, realism and modernism, Interwar art and visual culture, Cold War art and visual culture, Socialist Realism, monuments and monumentality, Monumental Propaganda.
Deanna Kashani (UCI Graduate)B.A., Art History, University of Southern California
M.A., History and Theory of Contemporary Art, San Francisco Art InstituteAdvisor: Cécile Whiting
Research Interests: California Modernism, Minimalism, abstract art, design
Matthew Knutson (UCI Graduate)B.A., History of the Modern Middle East, Brown University
Advisor: Bridget R. Cooks
Research Interests: Modern and contemporary Iranian art, the history of exhibition practices in Iran, feminist art history, and the history of the modern museum
Ashley Bryan Marin (UCI Graduate)B.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
M.Ed., Secondary Education, University of Minnesota
M.A., English, Boston CollegeAdvisor: Braxton Soderman
Dissertation: "Frame-Perfect: Temporalities in Competitive Gaming"
Research Interests: Esports, skillful play, the temporality of new media, game studies, and the politics of digital experience
Website: https://uci.academia.edu/MatthewKnutson
Christine Mugnolo (UCI Graduate)B.A., (with highest distinction) in Art History and Criticism, University of California, San Diego
Advisor: Allison Perlman
Research Interest: The Sublime; Popular and Visual Culture; Mexican Diaspora; 18th - 19th century European art; Latin American Surrealism; Psychoanalysis; Phenomenology; the Uncanny; Intersections of Art and Technology; Post- Humanism; Classical Art and Architecture; Italian Renaissance
B.A., magna cum laude, Art History, Princeton University
M.A., Early Modern Art History, Courtauld Institute of Art, London
M.F.A., Studio Art Concentration in Painting and Printmaking, University of Connecticut
M.F.A., Studio Art, Concentration in Painting, Indiana UniversityAdvisor: Cécile Whiting
Dissertation: "The Adolescent in American Print"
Research Interests: Comic studies, image as a science, American print culture, relationship between text and image in Western art, history of 19th and 20th century comic strips and visual satire, visual models of childhood from popular cultural and medical venues.
Website: http://www.christinemugnolo.com/