Visual Studies Ph.D.: call for applications

Visual Studies Ph.D.: call for applications

University of California, Santa Cruz

Pictured: The Porter Wave; Sculptor Kenny Farrell.
October 9, 2012
Visual Studies Ph.D.: call for applications

Application deadline: December 15, 2012

havc.ucsc.edu

The University of California at Santa Cruz is pleased to announce the call for applications to the Ph.D. program in Visual Studies. Applications are welcomed October 1 through December 15, 2012 for our class entering in September 2013.

This interdisciplinary program is designed for students with diverse academic backgrounds from across the arts and humanities who wish to pursue a graduate degree focused on the social and cultural production of human vision and on the distinctive roles played by art and artifacts in societies from around the globe. Faculty research areas include cultural production in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and the Pacific Islands.

The program employs a wide range of visual evidence for examination without being constrained by traditional hierarchies of art. Fine arts, architecture, photography, film, performance, utilitarian objects, and popular entertainment all are primary source material for scholars in the field.

The flexibility of the program allows students to work closely with their advisor and the director of graduate studies to craft a personalized course of study that advances their intellectual and professional goals.

For more information on the program, faculty and application requirements, please see our website.

Core Faculty, UCSC Visual Studies Ph.D. program
Martin Berger, gender, race and representation in U.S. culture
Raoul Birnbaum, Buddhist approaches to human vision, especially Chinese Buddhist representations and practices
Elisabeth Cameron, gender, performance, play and iconoclasm in Central Africa
Carolyn Dean, performance, costume and nonresemblant artifacts in Pre-Hispanic and Colonial Spanish America
Maria Evangelatou, gender, politics and religion in ancient Greek and Byzantine art and visual culture
Jennifer González, installation and activist art, theories of race and representation, digital art
Donna Hunter, national identity in western Europe and America since 1750
Stacy Kamehiro, identity politics and colonial histories in Oceania
Boreth Ly, trauma, gender and sexuality in Southeast Asia and its Diaspora
Derek Murray, theory and criticism of contemporary art, cultural theory, identity and representation, art of the African diaspora, popular visual culture

For additional information, please contact Graduate Program Coordinator, Ruby Lipsenthal, at [email protected].

 

 

 

 

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