Current PhD Students

Blessy  Augustine

Blessy Augustine



Research Interests / Specializations: Socially engaged art related to refugees, immigrants, extrajudicial spaces, and emancipatory pedagogy.
Carolyn Bell Farrell

Carolyn Bell Farrell



Research Interests / Specializations: Contemporary Canadian art; cultural memory and identity; art and ritual.
Andreas Buchwaldt

Andreas Buchwaldt



Emily-Anne Cadotte

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

Calla Elia



Research Interests / Specializations: Disability studies, architectural space and design, ethics of accommodation, agency, and identity.
Behnaz  Fatemi Jahmani

Behnaz Fatemi Jahmani



VAC 106C

Brittany Forrest

Brittany Forrest



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

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

Anahí González



Research Interests / Specializations: Photography, Mexican representation on imagery, Mexican labour in Canada, migration.
Alexis  Gros-Louis

Alexis Gros-Louis



Aryen Hoekstra

Aryen Hoekstra



Research Interests / Specializations: Contemporary art, global art market, object studies, contingency.
Xi Jin

Xi Jin



Research Interests / Specializations: Multimedia, installation, practices, materials, language, computational linguistics.
Jessica Joyce

Jessica Joyce



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

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.
Elizabeth Knazook

Elizabeth Knazook



Masha Kouznetsova

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

Katie Lawson



Research Interests / Specializations: Museums; Contemporary Art; Visual Culture; Curating; Climate Change; Sustainability; Waste; Water.
VAC 241 C3

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Yijing Angela Li

Yijing Angela Li



Research Interests / Specializations: Contemporary Art; Photography; East Asian Studies; Chinese studies.
Derek Liddington

Derek Liddington



Ashar Mobeen

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

Ana Moyer



Research Interests / Specializations: Contemporary tattooing; queer studies; disability studies; decolonization; apprenticeship and arts education.
Dong-Kyoon Nam

Dong-Kyoon Nam



Research Interests / Specializations: Contemporary assemblage art; process ontologies in new materialism, affect theory, and critical posthumanism.
Margherita Papadatos

Margherita Papadatos



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

Racquel Rowe



Natalie  Scola

Natalie Scola



 Bruno Sinder

Bruno Sinder



Research Interests / Specializations: Photography, digital media, identity, performance.
Imogen Wilson

Imogen Wilson

Image credit: Lucas Cabral

Research Interests / Specializations: Net art, archiving, conservation in museums and DIY spaces, digital memory and media theory.