Current Scholarship

Here's a partial list of dissertations in progress, by our current graduate students. Click here for a catalogue of past dissertations.

• Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva. "Meyerhold and Stanislavsky at Povarskaia Street: Art, Money, Politics and the Birth of Laboratory Theatre"
  
• Matthew Daube, in process, expected June 2008, “Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor: Race and the Body in Stand-up Comedy”
  
• Micaela Diaz-Sanchez, in process, expected June 2008, “(In)Between Nation and Diaspora: Rendering Indigeneity and Africa in Contemporary Xican@ and Mexican@ Cultural Production”
  
• Michael Hunter, in process, expected September 2007, “Bodies at Work in Bodies of Work”
  
• Rachel Joseph, in process, expected June 2008, “Screened Stages: Representations of Theatre within Film”
  
• Elizabeth Nordt, in process, September 2007, “Huelga de Dolores: Aesthetics and Politics of Performance”
  
• Arden Thomas, in process, expected June 2008, “Embodied Spaces: Ecology And Movement Performance: Anna Halprin, Pina Bausch, William Kentridge, and José Rivera”  

Also, visit the links on the left to read more about the ongoing lectures, performances, and other events at the Committee on Black Performing Arts and the Dance Division.