Recent Dissertations
Lori Barcliffe Baptista, "Stirring the Melting Pot: Food and the Performance of Inclusion in Newark's Ironbound Community," 2009.
Christine Dunford, "Deploying Nature: A Performance Ethnography of Community Gardens, Gardeners, and Urban Change in a Chicago Neighborhood," 2009.
Hsiao Mei Hsieh, "Across the Strait: History, Performance and Gezaixi in China and Taiwan," 2009.
Tamara Roberts, "Musicking at the Crossroads of Diaspora: Afro Asian Musical Politics," 2009.
Jennifer Tyburczy, "Sex Objects: Performance, Pleasure, and Pedagogy in Sex Museums, 1973-2008," 2009.
Mark West, "Dalit Dissent: Barefoot Lawyers and the Arts of Caste Resistance in Rural South Asia," 2009.
David Donkor, "Spiders in the City: Trickster and the Politics/Economics of Performance in Ghana's Popular Theatre Revival," 2008.
Salome Mshai Mwangola, "Performing Our Stories, Performing Ourselves: In Search of Kenya's Uhuru Generation," 2008.
Öykü Potuoglu-Cook, "Night Shifts : Moral, Economic, and Cultural Politics of Turkish Belly Dance Across the Fins-de-Siècle," 2008.
Jason Winslade, "Thinning the Veils: Initiation and the Performance of Occultism," 2008.
Kamran Afary, "Performance-conscious Activism and Activist-conscious Performance as Discourse in the Aftermath of the Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992," 2007.
Amber Day, "Prankly Speaking: Performative Satire and Political Dialogue," 2007.
Kathryn Farley, "Teaching Performance in the Digital Age: Computerized Technologies, Improvisational Play Techniques and Interactive Learning Processes," 2007.
Jeffrey McCune, "Doin' the Down Low, Remixin' the Closet: Black Masculinity and the Politics of Sexual Passing," 2007.
Meida McNeal, "Choreographing Citizenship in the ‘Gayelle’: Performing Trinidadian Cultural Nationalisms," 2007.
Lisa Parkins, "Representing 'The Marquise of O—': Disruptions and Subjectivity," 2006.
Rashida Braggs, "'American' Jazz : Traversing Race and Nation in Postwar France," 2006.
Stephanie Karamitsos, "The Art of Janine Antoni: Labor, Gender and the Object of Performance," 2006.
Mohammed Mohammed, "Imagining and Performing Habasha Identity: The Ethiopian Diaspora in the Area of Washington, D.C.," 2006.
Renee Alexandeer, " Art as Survival : The Congo Tradition of Portobelo, Panama," 2005.
Michelle Campbell, "My Life as Mick Mounter : Performing Genders with the Chicago Kings," 2005.
Natsu Onoda, "Tezuka Osamu : An Intertextual History of Comics in Post-World War II Japan," 2005.
Ioana Szeman-Ureche, "Performing for Europe at its Borders: Gender, Nation and the Roma Minority in Post-Communist Romania," 2005.
Kin Yan Szeto, "The Cosmopolitical Martial Arts Cinema of Asia and America: Gender, Ethnicity and Transnationalism," 2005.
Nancy Anderson, “Cultural Performance Corporate Style: An Ethnographic Study on Employee Experiences with Change Management at Topflight,” 2004.
Barbara Webb, “‘The Real Character of the Negro on the Stage’: African American Theatre as Risk and Possibility, 1890-1908,” 2003.
Priya Srinivasan, “Performing Indian Dance in America: Interrogating Modernity, Tradition, and the Myth of Cultural Purity,” 2003.
Shondrika Moss, “Ah’d Save de Text for You: Exploring Zora Neal Hurston’s Characteristics of Negro Expression,” 2003.
Anne Marie Hubbell, “Six Funny Women: Gender, Body, Sexuality and Power in the Stand-up Comedy of Judy Tenuta, Paula Poundstone, Ellen Degeneres, Roseanne Barr Pentland Arnold Thomas, Adele Givens and Margaret Cho,” 2002.
Lawrence Bogad, "Electoral Guerrilla Theatre in Recent Democracies: Speaking Mirth to Power," 2001.
Audrey Colby, "Acts Apart: Fantasy and Adult Performance of 'Otherness' in Four Interactive Environments," 2001 .
Peter Glazer, "Radical Nostalgia: Spanish Civil War Commemoration and the Politics of Desire," 2001.
Derek Goldman, "The Politics and Poetics of Adaptation: Leon Forrest's Divine Days," 2001.
Karen McLaughlin, "How Women's Words Fail in the Public Arena and What They Do About It," 2001.
Daniel Moser, "Victory Gardens 1974-2001: A Cultural History of Chicago Theatre," 2001.
Timothy Raphael, "Becoming Pictures, Identifying Sounds, Remembering Bodies: Ronald Reagan and the Political Economy of Performance," 2001.
Anna Scott, "A fala que faz/Words that work: Performance of Black Power Ideologies in Bloco Afro Carnival in Salvador, Bahia-Brazil, 1968-present," 2001.
Margaret Werry, "Tourism, Ethnicity and the Performance of New Zealand Nationalism, 1889-1914," 2001.
Jodi Kanter, "Write it!: Practicing Loss in Four Contemporary Narratives," 2000.
Craig Quintero, "Performing Culture/Cultural Performances: The Little Theatre Movement in Taiwan," 2000.
Eric Rosen, "About Face Theatre: Case Studies in Theory, Aesthetics, Politics, and Performance Practice," 1999.
Heather McClure, "Sexuality, Power and Performance in Guatemala and in United States Asylum Law," 1999.
Kim Holton, "Performing Political and Social Change: Revivalist Folklore Troupes in Twentieth Century Portugal," 1999.
Jennifer Holmes, "Re-visioning Modern American Dance Theatre Through the Performance Career of Angna Enters," 1999.
Carol Burbank, "Ladies Against Women: Theatre Activism, Parody, and the Public Construction of Citizenship in the U.S. Feminism's Second Wave," 1998.
John Cook, "The Transformed Body: Pavel Tchelitchew's Representation of the Modernist Body," 1998.
Steve Totland, "Telling the Truth: Performing Non-Fiction Texts at Lifeline Theatre," 1998.
Mella Davis, "African Trickster Tales in Diaspora: Resistance in the Creole-Speaking South Carolina Sea Islands and Guadeloupe, French West Indies," 1998.
Amanda Kemp, "'Up from Slavery' and Other Narratives: Black South African Performances of the American Negro (1920-1943)," 1997.
Derek Werner, "Toward a Model of Performance-based Critical Reading: A Study of Ensemble Rehearsal and Performance in a Production of William Gibson's 'Neuromancer'"1997.
Renee Dolezal, "High School Mothers Finding a Voice: Personal Narratives, Performance, Educational Policy," 1997.
Eileen Cherry, "Sister Envoy: Three Transcultural Performance Texts by African-American Women Travelers," 1997.
Jessica Thebus, "Representing Isabelle Eberhardt: Exercises in Performed Scholarship," 1997.
Lara Dieckmann, "Recuperating Chamber Theatre: Feminist Performance and Theatrical Adaptation," 1997.
Lisa Wolford, "The Occupation of the Saint: Grotowski's Art As Vehicle," 1996.
Cynthia Seel, "The Divining Art: An Exploration of the Performance of Ritual in Flannery O'Connor's Fiction," 1996.
Mbala Nkanga, "Multivocality and The Hidden Text in Central African Theatre and Popular Performances: A Study of the Rhetoric of Social and Political Criticism," 1995.
Sarah Von Fremd, "Political Power and Urban Popular Theatre in Uganda," 1995.
Shannon Jackson, "Lines of Activity: Performance, Space, and Pedagogy at Hull- House," 1995.
Mark Lococo, "'Burned Behind My Eyes': The Dissolution of Invincibility through Performances of the Vietnam War," 1995.
Royd Climenhaga, "What Moves Them: Pina Bausch and the Aesthetics of Tanztheater," 1995.
Patricia Suchy, "Co-authoring Narrative Discourse: The Dialogue of Theatrical Adaptation," 1995.
Salome Chasnoff, "Narrating Birthing: Technologies of 'Self'-replication and 'Reality'-construction," 1995.
Ivor Miller, "Belief and Power in Contemporary Cuba: The Dialogue Between Santeria Practitioners and Revolutionary Leader," 1995.
Mary Zimmerman, "The Archaeology of Performance: A Study of Ensemble Process and Development in the Lookingglass Theatre Production of The Arabian Nights," 1994.
Kathleen Flynn, "Performing Sobriety: Story and Celebration in Alcoholics Anonymous," 1994.
Joseph Sobol, "Jonesborough Days: The National Storytelling Festival and the Contemporary Storytelling Revival Movement in America," 1994.
Martha Lavey, "Representing the Body: An Archetypal Approach to the Performance Art of Rachel Rosenthal, Laurie Anderson, and Karen Finley," 1994.
Terri Kapsalis, "The Pelvic Exam as Performance: Power, Spectacle, and Gynecology," 1994.
Catherine Robertson, "The Aesthetics and Politics of Indeterminacy in Experimental Video," 1994.
Debbie Saivetz, "The Architecture of Chaos: Actor, Image, and the Dynamics of Space in the Directing Process of JoAnne Akalaitis," 1993.
Morris Meyer, "The Wild(e) Body: Camp Theory, Camp Performance," 1993.
Richard Geer, "Community Performance: Efficacious Theatre and Community Animation in the Performance Cycle of Swamp Gravy Sketches," 1993.
Deryl Johnson, "Mask of HIV/AIDS: Performance, Persona, and Poetry Therapy," 1993.
Andrew Baker, "Witness to the Ineffable: The Ethical Sublime and Meta-Levels of Performance: An Investigation of the Sublime in William Wordsworth's 'The Prelude', Examined through the Aestheics of Jean-Francois Lyotard," 1994.
Lester Forrest Inslee, "'This World Is Not My Home': An Ethnographic Study of Homelessness," 1993.
Ruth Laurion Bowman, "Performance, Play, and Pigs in Hawthorne's Social Romances," 1992.
Elizabeth Threnhauser, "The Struggle for Being: A Jungian Perspective on the Poetry of T. S. Eliot," 1991.
Roy Calhoun Fuller, "The Sleeping Giant: Dreams and Artistry in the Fictions of Reynolds Price," 1990.
Elyse Lamm, "A Necessary Artifice: A Phenomenology of the Performing Self Explored in the Life-Text of Anais Nin," 1990.
Soyini Madison, "An Ethnography of Performance: Interpreting the Cultural Expressions of Three African American Women," 1989.
Michael Bowman, "Yoknapatawpha Theatre: Performance, Popular Culture, and Authority in the Faulknerian Novel," 1989.
Susan Wilson, "Adrienne Rich: The Conscious Rhetorician," 1988.
Mary Doyle, "Games of Lamentation: The Irish Wake Performance Tradition," 1988.
Richard Ward, "Paul and the Politics of Corinth: A Study of 2 Corinthians 10-13," 1987.
Judith Hamera, "Within Poetic Coincidence: A Psychological Approach to Imaginal Continuity in Performance Art," 1987.
Cheryl Oxford, "'They Call Him Lucky Jack': Three Performance-Centered Case Studies of Storytelling in Watauga County, North Carolina," 1987.
Della Pollock, "Brecht and Expressionism: An Assessment of Rhetorical Continuity," 1986.
