Graduate Programs
Questions?
Program Assistant
Parveen Grewal
519-661-2111 x83440
vagrads@uwo.ca
Graduate Chair
Christof Migone
cmigone@uwo.ca
Current PhD Students

Blessy Augustine
Research Interests / Specializations: Socially engaged art related to refugees, immigrants, extrajudicial spaces, and emancipatory pedagogy.

Carolyn Bell Farrell
Research Interests / Specializations: Contemporary Canadian art; cultural memory and identity; art and ritual.

Emily-Anne Cadotte
Research Interests / Specializations: The intersection of art and politics, public arts policy, regionalisms and regional galleries, subject positions within the museum, socially engaged art/social practice, taste and social class.

Calla Elia
Research Interests / Specializations: Disability studies, architectural space and design, ethics of accommodation, agency, and identity.

Behnaz Fatemi Jahmani
VAC 106C

Brittany Forrest
Research Interests / Specializations: Sexual Manifestations, Gender Dysphoria, Perception Fabrications, Conditioning, Alienation, Mnemonic Memories.

Ronique Gillis
Research Interests / Specializations: Black visual studies; Black ontology; Black bodies; colonialism/neocolonialism; decoloniality/decolonization; neoclassicism; contemporary art; British and American art.

Anahí González
Research Interests / Specializations: Photography, Mexican representation on imagery, Mexican labour in Canada, migration.

Aryen Hoekstra
Research Interests / Specializations: Contemporary art, global art market, object studies, contingency.

Xi Jin
Research Interests / Specializations: Multimedia, installation, practices, materials, language, computational linguistics.

Jessica Joyce
Research Interests / Specializations: Oil painting, portraiture, urban landscape, community art, climate change.

Ira Kazi
Research Interests / Specializations: Recontextualization of Italian Renaissance and Baroque art, political use of artists' image in the Renaissance, contemporary South Asian diasporic art and film.

Masha Kouznetsova
Research Interests / Specializations: Installation, improvisation, radio and transmission art, materiality and texture of sound, re/fragmentation of materials and found objects, pinhole and cameraless photography, drawing, experimental writing, translation and inbetweenness, place and placelessness.

Katie Lawson
Research Interests / Specializations: Museums; Contemporary Art; Visual Culture; Curating; Climate Change; Sustainability; Waste; Water.
Yijing Angela Li
Research Interests / Specializations: Contemporary Art; Photography; East Asian Studies; Chinese studies.

Ashar Mobeen
Research Interests / Specializations: Cosmology and visual culture; science and speculative thought; cultural transmission and translation; decolonization; epistemic justice; ecocriticism and climate humanities.

Ana Moyer
Research Interests / Specializations: Contemporary tattooing; queer studies; disability studies; decolonization; apprenticeship and arts education.

Dong-Kyoon Nam
Research Interests / Specializations: Contemporary assemblage art; process ontologies in new materialism, affect theory, and critical posthumanism.

Margherita Papadatos
Research Interests / Specializations: Contemporary art, new media, installation art, continental philosophy, the sublime, time, space, memory, affect.

Bruno Sinder
Research Interests / Specializations: Photography, digital media, identity, performance.

Imogen Wilson
Image credit: Lucas CabralResearch Interests / Specializations: Net art, archiving, conservation in museums and DIY spaces, digital memory and media theory.