This dissertation examines how Black world-making strategies perform sustainability in Miami, Florida. According to environmental reports, the city of Miami will be underwater by 2100. …
This project is a critical inquiry into the material, moving, and mediated bodies of the contemporary carceral state. Body Assembly argues that carceral power is …
This dissertation focuses on crises of extractive capitalism as they relate to the migrant, laboring body. Roughly spanning the first three-quarters of the 20th century, …
Lester Horton created a racially integrated company during a time of profound racial and cultural segregation, and his decision to live alongside artists of different …
This thesis explores the usage of surveillance as a framework for dramaturgy and production in Yussef El Guindi’s BACK OF THE THROAT, produced by Brown …
“Decolonial Dreamwork: Spectatorship, Affect and Indigeneity in Performance” analyzes the use of performance art, dance and theater to consider the problem of colonial inheritance in …
This dissertation investigates the emergent genre of 'surveillance art,' or art works that centrally employ technologies and techniques of surveillance to create theatre, installation, and …
This dissertation investigates how theatricality and performance enter into the scene of contemporary Asian American cultural production. I argue that Asian American artists and writers, …
We sit within the confines of a shipping container, where people are rendered commodity and turf is marked for value. Chula and Pal create competition …
This dissertation reframes contemporary investments in political performance through an analysis of the politics and practices of the FTA, a GI-oriented antiwar variety show led …
This dissertation explores the construction of identity and difference through racial impersonation in Philadelphia’s theatre and performance history. Each chapter expands outward from a local …
This dissertation is based on five years of ethnographic research into New York and Texas-based immigration courtrooms and detention centers. The period of my research …
This dissertation models an alternative to the epistemic objectification of Islam in Euro-American discourses of theatre history and performance theory. Historicizing these discourses’ conceptualization of …
Theatre architecture reform in the second half of the eighteenth century in France shows the cross-infiltration of philosophical and scientific discourses with those generated by …
In this dissertation, I propose majoritarian decolonization. By majoritarian I mean that decolonization cannot be an endeavor for Indigenous and minoritized peoples to carry on …
In 1962, the American painter Mark Rothko donated five wall-sized paintings to Harvard University that he created for a penthouse dining room in the newly …
This dissertation examines the ongoing movement histories of settler colonialism, focusing on the problem of white-settler spectatorship in 21st-century Canada. It frames white-settler spectatorship as …
“Performing Disemployment” argues that theatre and performance practices emerged as the critical nexus between disability politics and the politics of work in the United States …