Graduate Programs
Questions?
Program Assistant
Linda Meloche
519-661-2111 x83440
vagrads@uwo.ca
Graduate Chair
Christof Migone
cmigone@uwo.ca
Current PhD Students

Blessy Augustine
Research Interests / Specializations: Socially engaged art related to refugees, immigrants, extrajudicial spaces, and emancipatory pedagogy.

Emily-Anne Cadotte
Research Interests / Specializations: the intersection of art and politics, public arts policy, regionalisms and regional galleries, subject positions within the museum, socially engaged art/social practice, taste and social class

Calla Elia
Research Interests / Specializations: Disability studies, architectural space and design, ethics of accommodation, agency, and identity.

Anahí González
Research Interests / Specializations: Photography, Mexican representation on imagery, Mexican labour in Canada, migration.

Philip Gurrey
Research Interests / Specializations: Gesture and improvisation in abstract painting and free-associated music

Aryen Hoekstra
Research Interests / Specializations: contemporary art, global art market, object studies, contingency

Ira Kazi
Research Interests / Specializations: Recontextualization of Italian Renaissance and Baroque art, political use of artists' image in the Renaissance, contemporary South Asian diasporic art and film

Shelley Kopp
Research Interests / Specializations: digital humanities; online archiving; the digital catalogue raisonné

Katie Lawson
Research Interests / Specializations: Museums; Contemporary Art; Visual Culture; Curating; Climate Change; Sustainability; Waste; Water

Ashar Mobeen
Research Interests / Specializations: Archaeoastronomy, archaeology, diaspora, decolonization, cultural transmission and translation.

Ana Moyer
Research Interests / Specializations: Tattooing, decolonization, queer temporalities, colonial art, Indigenous art.

Dong-Kyoon Nam
Research Interests / Specializations: Contemporary assemblage art; process ontologies in new materialism, affect theory, and critical posthumanism.

Sasha Opeiko
Research Interests / Specializations: residual memory in visual culture, melancholy, speculative realism, ideology

Margherita Papadatos
PhDResearch Interests / Specializations: Contemporary art, new media, installation art, continental philosophy, the sublime, time, space, memory, affect.

Bruno Sinder
Research Interests / Specializations: Photography, digital media, identity, performance

Ruth Skinner
PhDResearch Interests / Specializations: Histories and theories of photography; theories of representation and viewership; the ethics of archival interventions; intersections of art and esotericism; discourse studies.

Ashley Snook
Research Interests / Specializations: Intuitive and physical connections between human and nonhuman species, including vegetal and botanical life; concepts of animality and biophilia; methods of drawing, sculpture and experiential/sensorial installation.

Imogen Wilson
Image credit: Lucas CabralResearch Interests / Specializations: Net art, archiving, conservation in museums and DIY spaces, digital memory and media theory