STUDENTS

Sharnita Midgett

Aurora De Lucia

Cienna Davis, Ph.D.

Upcoming Graduate from Annenberg School of Communications.

ALUMNI

Gordon Divine Assah, Ph.D.

Writer, educator/researcher, filmmaker, co-founder and executive director of Educate a Child in Africa, a Cameroon-headquartered nonprofit.

Jasmine L. Blanks Jones, Ph.D.

Executive Director of the Center for Social Concern at Johns Hopkins University and theatre non-profit leader

Juan Castrillón, Ph.D.

Multimodal cultural anthropologist, ethnomusicologist, and former Inaugural Gilbert Seldes Multimodal Postdoctoral Fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

Nora Gross, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Education at Barnard College, Columbia University.

Leniqueca Welcome, PH.D.

Researcher, designer, and Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at the George Washington Elliott School of International Affairs.

Lexi Welch, MFA

Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Providence College with fields of expertise in still and moving image, sculpture, sound.

Rudy Gerson, MFA

Artsit and art instructor working out of Crane Old School. Gerson teaches 16mm filmmaking at Mono No Aware, video at UPenn, and performance/installation at Brooklyn College, while offering videography services to artists and organizations.

Vy Trịnh, MFA

Researcher and artist with numerous solo and group exhibitions at EXPO Chicago, and across galleries in Philadelphia, New York, and Ho Chi Minh City.

Roopa Vasudevan, PhD

Assistant Professor in the Department of Art focused on labor, time, humanity, and critical self-reflection within relationships with technology.

Jasmine ERdener, Phd

Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Visual Arts at Koç University examining ethics, data, and technology.

Arlene Fernandez, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of American Studies working in collaboration with the New Jersey Monuments to Migration and Labor Project.

Bethany Monea, PhD

Assistant Professor of English at the University of the District of Columbia focusing on community-engaged writing and research.

Rain Jacobson, MFA

Visual artist, educator, curator, and social worker in-training.

Joshua Reason, PHD

Assistant Professor at San Francisco State University and multimodal scholar-artist producing a documentary named Brazil After Dark, a film about a Black & Indigenous LGPTQIAPN+

Azsaneé Truss, Phd

Gilbert Seldes Multimodal Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Experimental Ethnography, working across text, film, sound, and collage to explore Black cultural production as sites of theory, resistance, and world-making globally.

Rain Jacobson, MFA

Visual artist, educator, curator, and social worker in-training.

Joshua Reason, PHD

Assistant Professor at San Francisco State University and multimodal scholar-artist producing a documentary named Brazil After Dark, a film about a Black & Indigenous LGPTQIAPN+

Winnie W.C. Lai, PhD

Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Music at Dartmouth College exploring performed vocalities, protest sounds, interspecies communication and intermedial ethnographic materials.

Maris Jones, PhD

Afro-Indigenous scholar, creator, and traveler native to Bulbancha/New Orleans, Louisiana, and the Lucayan Archipelago/The Bahamas. Visiting faculty at the School for International Training.

Nooshin Sadeghsamimi, PHD

Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Religious Diversity & Public Life at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs.

Rabani Garg, PhD

Education researcher of digital literacies, youth studies, and critical platform studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Melissa Skolnick-Noguera, PhD

Documentary filmmaker, cultural producer, and researcher focused on social justice and policy.

Oreoluwa Badaki, PhD

Research fellow at Teachers College, Columbia University and the Director of the Body-Ecology Lab.

Tali Ziv, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medical Anthropology at Texas State University, exploring the structures that connect community-based health services, mass incarceration, and street-based poverty in the United States.

Jake Nussbaum, PhD

multidisciplinary artist, musician, and scholar. He working at the intersections of creative practice and the social sciences. Exploring how creative practices such as music and dance transform political life and contribute to a more just social world.

LeAH GIESLEER, MA

Language arts and visual arts educator in Pennsylvania.

Mariela Morales, PhD

Postdoctoral fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania where she specializes in transnational media flows, technological appropriations, diasporic identity formation, and popular culture.

Alvin Luong, MFA

Artist and researcher of the Vietnamese refugee crisis that followed the end of the America-Vietnam War articulated through films, photographs, and sculptures.

Juliet Glazer, PhD

Anthropologist, ethnomusicologist, and educator teaching at Boston College Messina College Program.

Pablo Aguilera Del Castillo, PhD

Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Trinity University with a background in environmental studies and development studies.

Jiachen Sun, MFA

Landscape architect and former research assistant at the University of Pennsylvania’s McHarg Center.

Jixuan Guo, MFA

Landscape architect and filmmaker.