Graduate Alumni

Research Topics: K-12 Theatre Education and Theatre for Young Audiences; body image in youth theatre.

Research Topics: The intersection of performance studies and cultural anthropology.

Research Topics: Physical training methods for the actor; psycho-physical staging and composition techniques for the director

Research Topics: Afro-Futurist science fiction authors and performers.

Research Topics: Dance on Film, Performance Theory, Sociology and Black Feminism, Somatics for the Black body and the trauma of the embodied Black experience.

Research Topics: Exploring forms of communication and agency through movement practice and its use as a bridge between the mind and body split (as set up in Cartesian dualism).

Research Topics: Cognitive perception and choreographic meaning, screendance, dance and technology, dance science and somatics, dance pedagogy, multi-disciplinary approaches to performance, and the evolution of storytelling, music and dance in the Americas.

Research Topics: A corrugation of Inquiries: Aesthetic Values and Scholarship through the Activated Political Body

Research Topics: somatics; dance epistemology

Research Topics: The evolution of Black Dance in America through oppression and celebration.

Research Topics: The mind-body connection through dance and the symbiotic links between Bharatanatyam and Modern dance, gender constructs as foregrounding patriarchy and the potential of dance as a site to confirm, subvert, challenge and re-conceptualize these gender norms.

Research Topics: Spiritual Dance Practice and its relation to the Healing Arts, Meditation, and Technological Translation of Movement

Research Topics: Identity Politics and Trans-Radical Understanding as it relates to Theatre Practice and Cross-Cultural-Communication; the integration of Multimedia can help further the stories we tell onstage.