Mentor

Tina Tallon | Assistant Professor, School of Music
Tallon is a temporal media artist, engineer, historian and educator whose work grapples with questions of identity, agency and power as constructed and performed in our increasingly technologically-mediated world. Her current research focuses on the ways AI influences how artists engage with society — with a specific emphasis on equity and algorithmic justice. 

Fellows

Xiao Liu | DMA, School of Music (Vocal Performance)

Fateme Mohammadi Maklavani | MFA, Department of Design

Katherine Roos | PhD, Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Jiara Sha | MFA, Department of Dance

Ahura Sultan | PhD, History of Art

Ying-Shan Wu | PhD, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures

Mentor

Ashley Hope Pérez | Assistant Professor, Comparative Studies
Pérez is interested in the ethical implications of how we tell, read, mediate and interpret narratives. As one of the most frequently banned writers in the United States since 2021, she has used her insights as a literary scholar, novelist and educator to advocate for public school students and their right to experience diverse literature as a space for learning, discovery and growth.

Fellows

Alyssa Bedrosian | PhD, Spanish and Portuguese
Project Title: Catholic Feminism and the Fight for Abortion Rights in Mexico, Argentina and the USA

Yujie Chen | PhD, Dance
Project Title: Relational Embodiment: Tizhi, Dance, and Everyday Motion in Postsocialist China

William Evans | MFA, Art
Project Title: A Stitch in Black America

Ekundayo Igeleke | PhD, Comparative Studies
Project Title: New Men Must be Born: Community Organizing and Cultural Production as Healing Strategy

Jennifer Nunes | PHD, East Asian Languages and Literature
Project Title: "A Language Like Calluses:" The Poetics of Affect and Embodied Translation with Migrant Worker Poets in China and Taiwan

Robin Raven Prichard | PhD, Dance
Project Title: Paradigms of Care and Justice Through Intertribal Native American Dance

Justin Salgado | PhD, History
Project Title: Aids on the Margins: A Transnational Epidemic in El Paso and Ciudad Juárez

Mentors

ANNA BABEL | Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Babel is a sociolinguist and a linguistic anthropologist whose research focuses on the relationship between language and social categories, particularly in settings of language contact.

TOM DUGDALE | Associate Professor, Theatre, Film and Media Arts
Dugdale is a director and writer with interests in directing pedagogy, experimental performance and community engagement.

Fellows

ISAIAH BACK-GAAL | (MFA) English - Creative Writing
Project title | Doikayt/Hereness: Poetry and Politics in Place

KAYLEY DeLONG | (PhD) Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Project title | Dark Tourism

ALISSA ELEGANT | (PhD) Dance
Project title | The Persistence of the "Inefficient" Art of Dance in Workplaces of China's Railway Industry

KÁYỌ̀DÉ ODÙMBỌ́NÍ | (PhD) English
Project title | Fractured Solidarities: Mapping a Black Internationalist Imaginary, 1955 till Present

ARIANA STEELE | (PhD) Linguistics
Project title | Liberation at the Intersections: Black Nonbinary Tactics of Subversion Through Language

JESSICA TJIU | (PhD) Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Project title | Abolition Feminism: Asian/Asian American Women and the Politics of Sex Trafficking

İlayda Üstel | (PhD) Comparative Studies
Project title | Translating Abolition: Imagining Equitable Futures in Turkey

MAHKAMEH MALLAH ZADEH | (MFA) Design
Project title | Empowering Marginalized voices in Healthcare: A Co-Design Approach to Foster Equitable Futures

Mentors

HARMONY BENCH | Associate Professor, Department of Dance
Bench's research addresses practices, performances and circulations of dance in the contexts of digital and screen media. She is author of Perpetual Motion: Dance, Digital Cultures, and the Common) and is at work on a new book on affect and kinesthesia in screendance spectatorship. For nearly a decade, Bench has collaborated with Kate Elswit to bring the digital humanities and dance history into greater dialogue through computational analysis and data visualization with projects such as Dunham’s Data: Katherine Dunham and Digital Methods for Dance Historical Inquiry (winner of the 2021 ATHE/ASTR Award for Excellence in Digital Scholarship) and Visceral Histories/Visual Arguments: Dance-Based Approaches to Data.

LEIGH BONDS | Digital Humanities Librarian
Bonds is an associate professor and the digital humanities librarian. She consults with faculty and students on research and teaching, teaches digital humanities praxis and pedagogy, collaborates on projects and coordinates the campus digital humanities network.

Fellows

ANDREA ARMIJOS ECHEVERRIA | (PhD) Spanish and Portuguese
Project title | TBD

NOAH BUKOWSKI | (PhD) English
Project title | TBD

LORNA CLOSEIL | (PhD) Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Project title | TBD

EMILY KANIUKA | (PhD) Dance
Project title | TBD

ISHMAEL KONNEY | (MFA) Dance
Project title | TBD

MARIAH MARSDEN | (PhD) English
Project title | TBD

CAMILLE SNYDER | (MFA) Design
Project title | TBD

DAMAYANTI TIWARI | (PhD) Linguistics
Project title | TBD

Mentors

DANIELLE FOSLER-LUSSIER | Professor of Music
Danielle Fosler-Lussier's principal interests include music in international contact and exchange; the role of women in the creation of concert life, state support for the arts, and educational institutions; and music history pedagogy.

ILA NAGAR | Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures 
Ila Nagar teaches South Asian culture and studies topics in sociolinguistics situated at the nexus of language, politics, sexuality, power and meaning. Nagar is a multilingual researcher with extensive training as a sociolinguist and ethnographer; interdisciplinarity is the foundation of her approach to scholarly inquiry and teaching. 

Fellows

ROBERT BARRY JR. | (PhD) Department of Comparative Studies 
Project Title | Blackberry Molasses: Un/Gendering Black Masculinities in the Afterlives of Slavery

SARAH CRAYCRAFT | (PhD) Department of Comparative Studies
Project Title | Young in the Village: The Project of Rural Revitalization in Contemporary Bulgaria

JOY ELLISON | (PhD) Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Project Title | Coalitions at the Crossroads: Transgender Movements in the Midwest (1945-2000) 

JACOB KOPCIENSKI | (PhD) School of Music
Project Title | Sounding Queer Appalachia: Music, Sound, Meditation and Listening in Queer Communities of Contemporary Appalachia

KORTNEY MORROW | (MFA in Creative Writing) Department of English 
Project Title | Run it Back: A Poetic Mapping of Black Material Culture from the Rustbelt to the Blackbelt

PREETI SINGH | (PhD) Department of English
Project Title | Postcolonial Exceptions: Cultural Lives of the Indian National Emergency, 1975-1977 

LYDIA SMITH | (MFA in Painting and Drawing) Department of Art
Project Title | Leave No Stone Unturned 

HENRIQUE YAGUI TAKAHASHI | (PhD) Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Project Title | Racial Entanglements: Orientalism and Anti-Blackness in Brazil

Mentors

SUSAN VAN PELT PETRY | Professor of Dance
Van Pelt Petry is a choreographer, solo performer and arts advocate. In addition to her concert dance work, she has choreographed for operas, site specific projects and film. Petry arrived at Ohio State in 1983 as a visiting artist, became a graduate student, then assistant professor before leaving to pursue a freelance career. After over a decade, Van Pelt Petry returned to Ohio State in 2008 as Assistant Dean, then chaired the Department of Dance from 2006-2015.

AMY SHUMAN | Professor of English
Amy Shuman is the author of articles on conversational narrative, literacy, political, food customs, feminist theory and critical theory and of Storytelling Rights: The Uses of Oral and Written Texts by Urban Adolescents; Other People's Stories: Entitlement Claims and the Critique of Empathy; and (with Carol Bohmer) Rejecting Refugees: Political Asylum in the 21st Century. Shuman is a Guggenheim Fellow and fellow at the Hebrew University Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem. She is a recipient of the College of Humanities Exemplary Faculty Award, 2007; the Ohio State Distinguished Scholar Award, 2015; and the Ohio State Distinguished teaching award, 2016.

Fellows

YELIZ CAVUS | (PhD’2021) Department of History
Project Title |  “Crafting History Between Empire and Nation: The Formation of Modern Historical Consciousness in Late-Ottoman and Early Republican Turkish Historical Narratives, 1840s-1930s”
Project Description | Cavus’ project examines how modern history writing and historical scholarship emerged within the trans-imperial setting of the late-Ottoman period and how the historiographical debates of the late-nineteenth century affected the early Turkish Republic.

MARIO De GRADIS | (PhD’2021) Department of East Asian Languages and Literature
Project Title | “Ethnic Frames: Positioning Hui Literature Within and Beyond China”
Project Description | De Grandis’ dissertation investigates how literary authors from the largest Chinese Muslim ethnic group (i.e., the Hui) counter these discourses by presenting positive representations of their group in print media, digital media and during public events.

SETH EMMANUEL GAITERS | (PhD’2021) (Graduate Team Affiliate Fellow) Department of Comparative Studies
Project Title | “Black Sacred Politics: (Extra)Ecclesial Eruptions in #BlackLivesMatter”
Project Description | Gaiters’ dissertation locates and examines a politics of the sacred at the heart of the Black Lives Matters movement by considering the use of both spiritual and religious language and practices in Black Lives Matter as a central part of their racial justice struggles.

KATHRYN HOLT | (PhD’2021) Department of Dance
Project Title | “Dancing Irish Womanhood: Bodies, Sexualities, and Challenges to Cultural Norms in Irish Social and Theatrical Dance”
Project Description | Holt’s dissertation investigates how dance in Ireland and the Irish diaspora shapes and is shaped by cultural norms and expectations associated with Irish womanhood during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

DAREEN HUSSEIN | (MA’2022) Department of History of Art
Project Title | “The Orientalist Imagination: The Burden of Representation”
Project Description | Hussein’s exhibition brings together a group of artists whose work mines histories of colonialism and imperialism to reveal the personal and political effects of displacement. Employing film, photography and found imagery, these artists meditate on the stakes of representation and visibility.
(Portrait by Ann Hamilton)

JORDAN LOVEOY | (PhD’2021) Department of English/Center for Folklore Studies
Project Title | “Beyond the Flood: Environmental Memory, Precarity, and Creativity in Imagining Appalachia’s Livable Futures”
Project Description | Lovejoy’s project explores both literary and vernacular moments throughout Appalachian history and memory of the intense encounters — human and more-than-human, environmental and cultural, natural and technological — that occur within the context of floods.

NATHAN RICHARDS | (PhD’2022) Department of English
Project Title | “Healthcare Policy in Linguistic Interaction: A Mixed-Methods Approach for Improving U.S. Patient Care”
Project Description | Richards uses discourse analysis, medical humanities and academic medicine to research the negotiation of power in medical interactions and make applicable recommendations for improving the quality of patient care within the structures of the U.S. healthcare system.

VITOR VILAVERDE | (PhD’2023) Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Project Title | “Andor Stern”
Project Description | Vilaverde is directing a documentary feature titled Andor Stern that tells the story of André, 91 years old, the only living Brazilian-born who survived the Holocaust.

KATELIN WEBSTER |  (PhD’2022) School of Music
Project Title | “Musik Verbindet: Intercultural Music Programs and Refugee Integration in Germany”
Project Description | Webster’s dissertation examines how music activities in northern Germany actualize the European Union’s and Germany’s intercultural integration policies at a local level by creating a space for dialogue and exchange between Middle Eastern refugees and German citizens.

Mentors

DOROTHY NOYES | Professor, Departments of English and Comparative Studies
Noyes is Professor of Folklore at The Ohio State University with a joint appointment between the Departments of English and Comparative Studies and courtesy appointments in the Departments of Anthropology, French and Italian, and Germanic Languages and Literatures; she also teaches in the Program in International Studies. She is a research associate at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies and directed the Center for Folklore Studies from 2005 to 2014.

SUSAN VAN PELT PETRY | Professor of Dance
Van Pelt Petry is a choreographer, solo performer and arts advocate. In addition to her concert dance work, she has choreographed for operas, site specific projects and film. Petry arrived at Ohio State in 1983 as a visiting artist, became a graduate student, then assistant professor before leaving to pursue a freelance career. After over a decade, Van Pelt Petry returned to Ohio State in 2008 as Assistant Dean, then chaired the Department of Dance from 2006-2015.

Fellows

JACKLYN BRICKMAN | (MFA’20) Department of Art
Project Title | Tending
My thesis project, which will be exhibited at Urban Arts Space in February 2020, will entangle science fact with science fiction to address issues related to global climate change by using black walnuts as a symbol for how we as a society envision our future environment. Health, alchemy, parenthood, science, future – seemingly disparate subjects encompassing elements of daily life, on personal and societal levels are combined in an art installation and performance. My work amplifies this synthetic quality through large-scale installation that invites viewer interaction, play and imagination. As a durational performer within the installation, I will undergo a series of domestic tasks that expand the traditional notions of family to the non-human, such as sewing, cooking, cleaning, caring, tending and simply breathing.

MERCEDES CHAVEZ | (PhD’20) Department of English
Project Title | Origin Stories: Cinema and the Anthropocene
This project explores the intersection of cinema and the Anthropocene through the lens of their mythologies, or origin stories. Both cinema and the Anthropocene have somewhat muddled origins, both with an “official” narrative and alternative speculations; the camera obscura, a predecessor to cinema, has multiple proposed dates of origin — from the Paleolithic to the early Modern periods. The Anthropocene too has been much debated, with an official Golden Spike from geologists set at roughly 1950 AD to coincide with nuclear detonations, while scholars argue for much earlier dates — the Industrial Revolution, the Age of Conquest and the Agricultural Revolution are only three examples. Though set at drastically different stakes, for both cinema and the Anthropocene these narratives are key to establishing who claims the credit, or the culpability. Most crucially however, I explore the affective relationship between audience and art; visual theorist Nicholas Mirzoeff links the imperial project to its aesthetic component, the high art of the industrial age, which lead to an anesthetic quality; perception of the Anthropocene’s inherent ugliness is in fact dulled, in favor of an appreciation of “beauty.” If art can anesthetize the viewer, surely it should be able to do the reverse by offering a counter-visuality to the official narratives of industry. 

Mercedes Chavez: "In working with cinema studies and the environmental humanities, my work presents an emergent and naturally cross-disciplinary methodology, drawing out the interplay between the industrial/cultural object of film and the human relationship to nature."

SOPHIA ENRIQUEZ | (PhD’21) School of Music
Project Title | Canciones de Mexilachia: Latinx Music, Identity, and Immigration in Appalachia
My dissertation project documents and investigates Latinx music-making and identity in the Appalachian region, seeking to make sense of artistic processes of exchange, hybridity and belonging. Specifically, my work interrogates Latinx migration narratives, syncretisms and musical and cultural mobilities in “Mexilachian” music throughout Appalachia and South-Central Mexico. This dissertation is the first book-length project to investigate the music of Latinxs in Appalachia. My work demonstrates how Latinx-Appalachian music reveals new perspectives of immigration in spaces where Latinxs are not part of the dominant cultural narrative. I consider how performance groups such as the Lua Project pursue agendas of social activism and engage Latinx immigrant communities in Central Appalachia. Through observations about music, I develop an artistic lens through which to understand the tumultuous socio-political climate that informs the Latinx experience in the United States.”

EHSAN ESTIRI | (PhD’20) Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Project Title | Talking to America: Iranian Immigrants’ Public Events and American Political and Media Discourses
Iranian immigrants have been the subject of stigmatization, suspicion and discrimination in American political and media discourses since their first wave of migration to the United States in the late 1970s. My dissertation investigates the ways in which the largest Iranian immigrant community in the world living in Los Angeles counters these discourses and claims spaces within the American public. Based on ethnographic data from my fieldwork, I argue that the community achieves this by holding a wide range of public events, ranging from Islamic processions to Iranian New Year celebrations, in a manner that challenges American perceptions of Muslims and Iranians and legitimizes the community’s presence in the U.S., reducing its spatial and social isolation. I study these public events through an interdisciplinary lens that connects theories and methods from cultural anthropology, folkloristics, event studies, migration studies, media studies and ethnographic filmmaking. 

Ehsan Estiri: "This kind of cross-disciplinary research represents an avant-garde and non-conventional approach — I hope to learn from other fellows on how they draw on multiple fields in arts and humanities to answer their questions."

RHYS GRUEBEL | (MFA’20) Department of Design
With this fellowship, I propose to work with students, faculty and staff to develop a future vision of sustainability at Ohio State. Using collaborative, design-led research methods, I would like to build upon successful programs, like the campus-wide recycling and Zero Waste initiatives, to create a blueprint for a scale circular economy at the university. The CE is a model for responsible economic activity that balances the goals of business with the needs of society and the environment. CE philosophies reject the concepts of disposability and obsolescence found in the current “linear” economy in favor of durability and reuse. This shift in priorities separates economic activity from natural resource extraction which greatly reduces greenhouse gas emissions, consumer waste and pollution. I believe there is an incredible opportunity to conduct design-led CE research at Ohio State, and through this project, I will strive to further the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme’s mission of improving livability and mitigating the effects of climate change in our community. 

Rhys Gruebel: "I am building my professional network beyond the design community into other disciplines that are represented in the cohort. I also hope that experience will enable me to amplify my voice farther than I would have been able to do on my own."

TREVOR MARCHO | (PhD'20) School of Music
Project Title | Drum-Dance Rehab: Community-based Drumming for Families Dealing with Parkinson’s Disease
I intend to design and provide a weekly drumming class with movement that can be open to anyone with any level of PD as well as their caregivers in a nonmedical setting. Redirecting the research focus to the lived experiences of people with PD and their families and caretakers through the DDR program will provide a novel perspective of the value of music for the well-being of this population. The partnership between patient and caregiver can sometimes endure strains. Through the relaxed and adaptive music activities afforded by DDR, I hope to reduce those strains and strengthen the bond between the patients and caregivers. 

The research will focus on establishing tools to measure enjoyment, mental and emotional well-being, increased self-efficacy and sense of community of PD patients and their caregivers and loved ones who are participating in the weekly drumming intervention. Another purpose of the project is to give a voice to the patients and the caregivers themselves. Finally, I intend to find an appropriate way to disseminate the data gathered (enjoyment, mental and emotional well-being, increased self-efficacy and sense of community) and personal narratives of patients and caregivers. The dissemination tool will direct the focus to the individual rather than the disease or the treatment. I will search for resources to develop a short media presentation that can increase our understanding of PD as experienced by people in Columbus.

AVIVA HELENA NEFF | (PhD’20) Department of Theatre
Project Title | The Blood, the Earth and the Water: The Tragic Mulatta in History and Performance
This project explores how contemporary mixed-race Americans both embody and resist the national history that envelops us. According to a 2016 National Survey of Student Engagement, mixed-race students often feel pressure and alienation when asked to identify as one race. Despite the complex intersections of ethnicity represented by mixed-race people, there are very few campus resources dedicated to serving this growing population. Developing pedagogical implementations of my research is critical to my praxes. Therefore, this project will generate teachable resources and narratives of multiracial identity, as well as a play that privileges an underrepresented experience.

Lyndsey Vader | (PhD’20) Department of Dance
Project Title| Spaces of Encounter, Repertories of Engagement: Politics of Participation in Twenty-First-Century Contemporary Performance Praxis
My dissertation project analyzes the use of audience participation in performance works that reexamine what it means to be a community and imagine new ways of being together during these politically-divisive times. In the contemporary social and legislative climate of exclusionary politics, this dissertation contributes to ongoing theorizations about artistic practices that create spaces of political resistance through theatrical rehearsals of democracy. I examine the processes and procedures, which I call ‘repertories of engagement,’ that go into nurturing experiences of encounter in contemporary performance. Doing so, I offer a model to interrogate both the political and aesthetic dimensions of performative structures that invite audiences into the artwork. 

Lyndsey Vader: "I was excited to deepen my research amongst a group of artist-scholars across campus whose work intersects with core GAHDT themes. This graduate fellowship creates a space that honors creative critical-thinking through research grounded in theory and practice. The potential for cross-pollination of ideas made the team-based component of the fellowship particularly appealing. It is a delight to experiment with different models that amplify convergences across research areas."

Mentor

JENNIFER SCHLUETER | Associate Professor, Department of Theatre
Schlueter founded and produced The Lab Series, a student-driven, department-nurtured performance research laboratory. She was a project director for GAHDT and a faculty fellow in curriculum at the Graduate School. 

Fellows

ERIN T. ALLEN | School of Music
Project Title | Brass Bands, Participatory Musicking and the Ethics of Engagement at the HONK! Festival of Activist Street Bands
Project Description | Allen’s research examined how performance and perception of brass street band music shapes and is shaped by a critical engagement with U.S. political culture and social life, both within American public culture and more broadly within an international network of brass musicians.

KASSIE BURNETT | Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Project Title | Differently-Abled Natures: Ability in German Literature and Culture, 1900’s-Present
Project Description | Burnett’s research explored the concept of 'ability' in German literature and culture from the early twentieth century to the present. She questioned how western conceptions of ability and disability have influenced views and valuations of nature and its beings. Answering this query has implications not only for German eco-criticism and disability studies, but also for the global community as a whole.

TESSA JACOBS | Department of English
Project Title | Fire on Mountain Drive
Project Description | Jacobs’ cross-disciplinary project explored how the Mountain Drive community — a neighborhood in the foothills of Southern California — utilizing cultural resources such as community traditions, festivals and social networks, to withstand wildfires.

JESS LAMAR HOLLER | Department of Comparative Studies
Project Title | Toxic Heritages
Project Description | Holler’s multimodal dissertation project encompassed community-based collaborative ethnographic work, media ethnography and public humanities and arts-inflected production to investigate forms of toxic exposure across three sites in Ohio: 1) River Valley High School — a high school built on a WWII toxic dump-site in Marion County; 2) fracked communities in Eastern Ohio; and 3) dispersed communities fighting glyphosate/RoundUp in the food, water and lawn-care system.

MARIE LERMA | Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Project Title | Another World, Another Self: Oppositional Environmentalism and Latinx Art
Project Description | Lerma’s work posited a critical relationship between activism, Latinx art, the environment and land. Her dissertation articulated frameworks for different human connections to the land — ones that rely on mutual communal relationships over capitalist ideas of ownership.

ELEANOR PAYNTER | Department of Comparative Studies
Project Title | Emergency in Transit: Identity and Belonging through Narratives of Mediterranean Migration to Italy
Project Description | Paynter’s dissertation adopted an interdisciplinary, multi-scalar approach to explore how emergency responses to migrant arrivals in Italy mask larger historical and cultural issues related to national sovereignty, cultural identity and racialization.

NANDI SIMS | Department of Linguistics
Project Title | Race, Ethnicity and Language Change in a Predominately Black Miami Middle School
Project Description | Sims’ dissertation research aimed to explore group affiliation and identity formation as demonstrated through language among African and Haitian American youths at a Miami middle school. The project drew upon and contributes to literatures from a wide range of arts and humanities fields like linguistics, critical race studies and cultural studies.

This grants program enhanced opportunities for graduate students (PhD and MFA) in the arts and humanities to advance their research and/or creative practice fostering cross-disciplinary inquiry in alignment with GAHDT’s Society of Fellows and its annual theme. For 2021-22, GAHDT has awarded 10 $2,500 research grants to graduate students from seven unique academic disciplines — four are in MFA programs and six are in PhD programs.

Mentor

Kris Paulsen | Associate Professor of History of Art
Kris Paulsen is a specialist in contemporary art, with a focus on time-based and computational media. Her work traces the history of technology in the arts from photography to new media, with a particular emphasis on telepresence, virtuality, interface studies and early video art. Paulsen's current research addresses the logics of quantification and virtuality in contemporary art and culture, with particular attention to how they intersect with the physical, fleshy body.

Awardees

ANDREW BISHOP
PhD | Department of English
Project Title: Coping with Complicity: Anthropogenic Violence and Extinction in Industrial-Era American Travel Literature

LYDIA CORNETT
MFA | Department of Art
Project Title: Said/Unsaid: A Visual Study in Nonverbal Communication

KASHIF DENNIS
PhD | Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Project Title: Sugar Dhaddy

OMAR DIENG
PhD | Department of African and African American Studies
Project Title: Becoming Afro-European: Practice of Rootedness in the African Diaspora

TAMARA McCARTY
PhD | Department of Dance
Project Title: Marginalized Motion: Late-Medieval German Dance in Law, Practice and Memory

ALEXANDROS NIKOLAIDIS
PhD | Department of Educational Studies
Project Title: Educational Dimensions of Social Injustice

AARON PETERS
MFA | Department of Art
Project Title: Broken Objects

FERNANDO SÁNCHEZ LÓPEZ
PhD | Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Project Title: Social Simulations in the Face of Catastrophe: A Generic and Cognitive Approach to El hoyo and La peste's Worldbuilding

BRETT TAYLOR
MFA | Department of Art
Project Title: De/Re/Un-Becoming: Composing Being at the Intersection of Ability, Gender and Sexuality

MOLLIE WOLF
MFA | Department of Dance
Project Title: The WILDS

EMILY CRAVER
MFA | Department of Dance
Project title: Performativity of Interactions Between Humans and Technology
PROJECT WEBPAGE | past future tenses

JOY ELLISON
PHD | Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Project title: Coalitions at the Crossroads — Transgender Movements in the Midwest (1945-2000)
PROJECT WEBPAGE | What We Know About James Clay Jr.

DAVIANNA GREEN
MFA | Department of Dance
Project title: A Time Preserved (A Choreographic Navigation of Trauma, Loss, Love and Healing)
PROJECT WEBPAGE | Manifested Dreams

YILDIZ GÜVENTÜRK
MFA | Department of Dance
Project title: Corpus – Can We Just Dance?
PROJECT WEBPAGE | Corpus — Can we Just Dance?

RINA HAJRA
MFA | Department of Theatre
Project title: Kept Promise — A Human Rights Documentary
PROJECT WEBPAGE | Kept Promise — Interview with Mr. Hoti

MIRANDA HOLMES
MFA | Department of Art
Project title: Not (Just) My Painting

MIKEL BERMELLO ISUSI
PHD | Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Project title: Un Espejo Roto (“A Broken Mirror”)

ANDREA LUQUE KARAM
PHD | Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy
Project title: Website on Music Education in Mexico
PROJECT WEBPAGE | Music Education in Mexico

CLAYTON KINDRED
PHD | Department of History of Art
Project title: An Archaeology of Castration — The Image of the Eunuch in Nineteenth-Century France

JACOB KOPCIENSKI
PHD | School of Music
Project title: Documenting a Cemetery in Rendville, Ohio (Collaborative Project)
PROJECT WEBPAGE | Rendville Cemetery

FUNGISAI MUSONI
PHD | Department of African and African American Studies
Project title: Transnational Connections Between the Rockefeller Foundation and the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (UCRN)/Zimbabwe Between 1956-1985

REXHINA NDOCI
PHD | Department of Linguistics
Project title: Albanian Immigrants in Greece and the Right to Bias-Free Accented Greek

STEVEN RHUE
PHD | Department of Anthropology
Project title: Children's Experience and Perception of Household Water Insecurity in South America

ROLANDO RUBALCAVA
PHD | Department of English
Project title: Application of Narrative Medicine to Student-Faculty Interactions
PUBLISHED ARTICLE | On Discovering the Applications of Narrative Medicine: An Autoethnography

KYLEE C. SMITH
MFA | Department of Dance
Project title: Dance Performance at the National Lynching Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama

LYDIA SMITH
MFA | Department of Art and the Center for Folklore Studies
Project title: Documenting a Cemetery in Rendville, Ohio (Collaborative Project)
PROJECT WEBPAGE | Rendville Cemetery

LEYLA TIGLAY
PHD | Department of History
Project title: Decolonization and Environmental Justice in the Nuclear Age — African Reactions to the French Nuclear Tests in the Algerian Sahara (1958-1964)

MITCH VICIEUX
MFA | Department of Art
Project title: Medical Disparities for LGBTQ+ Individuals and Transgender Civil Rights
PROJECT WEBPAGE | God Made Me

JORDAN P. WOODWARD
PHD | Department of English
Project title: Environmental Racism as Metastatic Carcerality