| Year |
Name |
Title of Dissertation |
| 2010 |
Johnson, Javon |
"My Words Dance: Doing Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Slam and Spoken Word Poetry Communities in Los Angeles and Chicago |
| Paz, Coya |
"A Changing Lynchocracy: Lynching and the Performance of American Identities in Gold Rush California, 1848-1858." |
| 2009 |
Argade, Jyoti |
"Jungle Boys, Babus, and Camp Orientals: The Liminal Personae of the Film Star Sabu" |
| Baptista, Lori |
"Stirring the Melting Pot: Food and the Performance of Inclusion in Newark's Ironbound Community" |
| Dunford, Christine |
"Deploying Nature: A Performance Ethnography of Community Gardens, Gardeners, and Urban Change in a Chicago Neighborhood" |
| Furno, Raffaele |
"'Mise en vie' and Intra-Culturalism: Performing the Life of Black Migrants to Italy" |
| Hsieh, Hsiao Mei |
"Across the Strait: History, Performance and Gezaixi in China and Taiwan" |
| Roberts, Tamara |
"Musicking at the Crossroads of Diaspora: Afro Asian Musical Politics" |
| Tyburczy, Jennifer |
"Sex Objects: Performance, Pleasure, and Pedagogy in Sex Museums, 1973-2008" |
| West, Mark |
"Dalit Dissent: Barefoot Lawyers and the Arts of Caste Resistance in Rural South Asia" |
| 2008 |
Donkor, David |
"Spiders in the City: Trickster and the Politics/Economics of Performance in Ghana's Popular Theatre Revival" |
| Mwangola, Salome Mshai |
"Performing Our Stories, Performing Ourselves: In Search of Kenya's Uhuru Generation" |
| Potuoglu-Cook, Öykö |
"Night Shifts : Moral, Economic, and Cultural Politics of Turkish Belly Dance Across the Fins-de-Siècle" |
| Winslade, Jason |
"Thinning the Veils: Initiation and the Performance of Occultism" |
| 2007 |
Afary, Kamran |
"Performance-conscious Activism and Activist-conscious Performance as Discourse in the Aftermath of the Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992" |
| Danzig, Leslie Buxbaum |
"Chicago's 500 Clown Theatre: Physical Action, Impulse and Narrative Play" |
| Day, Amber |
"Prankly Speaking: Performative Satire and Political Dialogue" |
| Farley, Kathryn |
"Teaching Performance in the Digital Age: Computerized Technologies, Improvisational Play Techniques and Interactive Learning Processes" |
| McCune, Jeffrey |
"Doin' the Down Low, Remixin' the Closet: Black Masculinity and the Politics of Sexual Passing" |
| McNeal, Meida |
"Choreographing Citizenship in the 'Gayelle': Performing Trinidadian Cultural Nationalisms" |
| 2006 |
Braggs, Rashida |
"'American' Jazz : Traversing Race and Nation in Postwar France" |
| Karamitsos, Stephanie |
"The Art of Janine Antoni: Labor, Gender and the Object of Performance" |
| Mohammed, Mohammed |
"Imagining and Performing Habasha Identity: The Ethiopian Diaspora in the Area of Washington, D.C." |
| Parkins, Lisa |
"Representing 'The Marquise of O—': Disruptions and Subjectivity" |
| Peña, Elaine |
"Making Space Sacred: Devotional Capital, Political Economy, and the Transnational Expansion of the Cult of la Virgen de Guadelupe |
| 2005 |
Alexander, Renee |
" Art as Survival : The Congo Tradition of Portobelo, Panama" |
| Campbell, Michelle |
"My Life as Mick Mounter : Performing Genders with the Chicago Kings" |
| Onoda, Natsu |
"Tezuka Osamu : An Intertextual History of Comics in Post-World War II Japan" |
| Partridge, Amy |
"Public Health for the People: The Use of Exhibition and Performance to Stage the 'Sanitary Idea' in Victorian Britain" |
| Szeman, Ioana |
"Performing for Europe at its Borders: Gender, Nation and the Roma Minority in Post-Communist Romania" |
| Szeto, Kin Yan |
"The Cosmopolitical Martial Arts Cinema of Asia and America: Gender, Ethnicity and Transnationalism" |
| 2004 |
Anderson, Nancy |
"Cultural Performance Corporate Style: An Ethnographic Study on Employee Experiences with Change Management at Topflight" |
| Jones, Bronwyn |
"Performing Psychopathology: Crime Scene Photography, Forensic Aesthetics, and Performative Knowledge in Contemporary Serial Killer Narrative" |
| 2003 |
Moss, Shondrika |
"Ah'd Save de Text for You: Exploring Zora Neal Hurston's Characteristics of Negro Expression" |
| Srinivasan, Priya |
"Performing Indian Dance in America: Interrogating Modernity, Tradition, and the Myth of Cultural Purity" |
| Webb, Barbara |
"'The Real Character of the Negro on the Stage': African American Theatre as Risk and Possibility, 1890-1908" |
| 2002 |
Hubbell, Anne Marie |
"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" |
| 2001 |
Bogad, Lawrence |
"Electoral Guerrilla Theatre in Recent Democracies: Speaking Mirth to Power" |
| Colby, Audrey |
"Acts Apart: Fantasy and Adult Performance of 'Otherness' in Four Interactive Environments" |
| Glazer, Peter |
"Radical Nostalgia: Spanish Civil War Commemoration and the Politics of Desire" |
| Goldman, Derek |
"The Politics and Poetics of Adaptation: Leon Forrest's Divine Days" |
| McLaughlin, Karen |
"How Women's Words Fail in the Public Arena and What They Do About It" |
| Moser, Daniel |
"Victory Gardens 1974-2001: A Cultural History of Chicago Theatre" |
| Raphael, Timothy |
"Becoming Pictures, Identifying Sounds, Remembering Bodies: Ronald Reagan and the Political Economy of Performance" |
| Scott, Anna |
"A fala que faz/Words that work: Performance of Black Power Ideologies in Bloco Afro Carnival in Salvador, Bahia-Brazil, 1968-present" |
| Werry, Margaret |
"Tourism, Ethnicity and the Performance of New Zealand Nationalism, 1889-1914" |
| 2000 |
Kanter, Jodi |
"Write it!: Practicing Loss in Four Contemporary Narratives" |
| Quintero, Craig |
"Performing Culture/Cultural Performances: The Little Theatre Movement in Taiwan" |
| 1999 |
Holmes, Jennifer |
"Re-visioning Modern American Dance Theatre Through the Performance Career of Angna Enters" |
| Holton, Kim |
"Performing Political and Social Change: Revivalist Folklore Troupes in Twentieth Century Portugal" |
| McClure, Heather |
"Sexuality, Power and Performance in Guatemala and in United States Asylum Law" |
| Rosen, Eric |
"About Face Theatre: Case Studies in Theory, Aesthetics, Politics, and Performance Practice" |
| 1998 |
Burbank, Carol |
"Ladies Against Women: Theatre Activism, Parody, and the Public Construction of Citizenship in the U.S. Feminism's Second Wave" |
| Cook, John |
"The Transformed Body: Pavel Tchelitchew's Representation of the Modernist Body" |
| Davis, Mella |
"African Trickster Tales in Diaspora: Resistance in the Creole-Speaking South Carolina Sea Islands and Guadeloupe, French West Indies" |
| Totland, Steve |
"Telling the Truth: Performing Non-Fiction Texts at Lifeline Theatre" |
| 1997 |
Cherry, Eileen |
"Sister Envoy: Three Transcultural Performance Texts by African-American Women Travelers" |
| Dieckmann, Lara |
"Recuperating Chamber Theatre: Feminist Performance and Theatrical Adaptation" |
| Dolezal, Renee |
"High School Mothers Finding a Voice: Personal Narratives, Performance, Educational Policy" |
| Kemp, Amanda |
"'Up from Slavery' and Other Narratives: Black South African Performances of the American Negro (1920-1943)" |
| Thebus, Jessica |
"Representing Isabelle Eberhardt: Exercises in Performed Scholarship" |
| Werner, Derek |
"Toward a Model of Performance-based Critical Reading: A Study of Ensemble Rehearsal and Performance in a Production of William Gibson's 'Neuromancer'"1997 |
| 1996 |
Seel, Cynthia |
"The Divining Art: An Exploration of the Performance of Ritual in Flannery O'Connor's Fiction" |
| Wolford, Lisa |
"The Occupation of the Saint: Grotowski's Art As Vehicle" |
| 1995 |
Chasnoff, Salome |
"Narrating Birthing: Technologies of 'Self'-replication and 'Reality'-construction" |
| Climenhaga, Royd |
"What Moves Them: Pina Bausch and the Aesthetics of Tanztheater" |
| Jackson, Shannon |
"Lines of Activity: Performance, Space, and Pedagogy at Hull- House" |
| Lococo, Mark |
"'Burned Behind My Eyes': The Dissolution of Invincibility through Performances of the Vietnam War" |
| Miller, Ivor |
"Belief and Power in Contemporary Cuba: The Dialogue Between Santeria Practitioners and Revolutionary Leader" |
| Nkanga, Mbala |
"Multivocality and The Hidden Text in Central African Theatre and Popular Performances: A Study of the Rhetoric of Social and Political Criticism" |
| Suchy, Patricia |
"Co-authoring Narrative Discourse: The Dialogue of Theatrical Adaptation" |
| Von Fremd, Sarah |
"Political Power and Urban Popular Theatre in Uganda" |
| 1994 |
Baker, Andrew |
"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" |
| Flynn, Kathleen |
"Performing Sobriety: Story and Celebration in Alcoholics Anonymous" |
| Kapsalis, Terri |
"The Pelvic Exam as Performance: Power, Spectacle, and Gynecology" |
| Lavey, Martha |
"Representing the Body: An Archetypal Approach to the Performance Art of Rachel Rosenthal, Laurie Anderson, and Karen Finley" |
| Robertson, Catherine |
"The Aesthetics and Politics of Indeterminacy in Experimental Video" |
| Sobol, Joseph |
"Jonesborough Days: The National Storytelling Festival and the Contemporary Storytelling Revival Movement in America" |
| Zimmerman, Mary |
"The Archaeology of Performance: A Study of Ensemble Process and Development in the Lookingglass Theatre Production of The Arabian Nights" |
| 1993 |
Geer, Richard |
"Community Performance: Efficacious Theatre and Community Animation in the Performance Cycle of Swamp Gravy Sketches" |
| Inslee, Lester Forrest |
"'This World Is Not My Home': An Ethnographic Study of Homelessness" |
| Johnson, Deryl |
"Mask of HIV/AIDS: Performance, Persona, and Poetry Therapy" |
| Meyer, Morris |
"The Wild(e) Body: Camp Theory, Camp Performance" |
| Saivetz, Debbie |
"The Architecture of Chaos: Actor, Image, and the Dynamics of Space in the Directing Process of JoAnne Akalaitis" |
| 1992 |
Bowman, Ruth Laurion |
"Performance, Play, and Pigs in Hawthorne's Social Romances" |
| 1991 |
Threnhauser, Elizabeth |
"The Struggle for Being: A Jungian Perspective on the Poetry of T. S. Eliot" |
| 1990 |
Fuller, Roy Calhoun |
"The Sleeping Giant: Dreams and Artistry in the Fictions of Reynolds Price" |
| Lamm (Pineau), Elyse |
"A Necessary Artifice: A Phenomenology of the Performing Self Explored in the Life-Text of Anais Nin" |
| 1989 |
Bowman, Michael |
"Yoknapatawpha Theatre: Performance, Popular Culture, and Authority in the Faulknerian Novel" |
| Madison, Soyini |
"An Ethnography of Performance: Interpreting the Cultural Expressions of Three African American Women" |
| 1988 |
Doyle, Mary |
"Games of Lamentation: The Irish Wake Performance Tradition" |
| Wilson, Susan |
"Adrienne Rich: The Conscious Rhetorician" |
| 1987 |
Hamera, Judith |
"Within Poetic Coincidence: A Psychological Approach to Imaginal Continuity in Performance Art" |
| Oxford, Cheryl |
"'They Call Him Lucky Jack': Three Performance-Centered Case Studies of Storytelling in Watauga County, North Carolina" |
| Ward, Richard |
"Paul and the Politics of Corinth: A Study of 2 Corinthians 10-13" |
| 1986 |
Pollock, Della |
"Brecht and Expressionism: An Assessment of Rhetorical Continuity" |
