Sofia Cutler: “Landscapes of Consumption: Race, Labor and Logistics in Northern New Jersey” Advisors: Michael Denning, Mary Lui; Committee Members: Jennifer Klein, Matthew Jacobson
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio: “Migrants in the Biosphere: Migrants, Water, and the Politics of Pain” Advisor: Kathryn Dudley; Committee Members: Alicia Schmidt Camacho, Albert Laguna
Jack Davis: “Indefinite expansion: Inflation, Modernism, and the Aesthetics of Immateriality” Advisors: Michael Denning, Lisa Lowe; Committee Member: Shane Vogel
Nancy Escalante: “ʻShe is the First of Many’: The María Guardado Collective and Intergenerational Counter-Archiving by U.S. Central Americans in Los Angeles” Advisors: Matthew Jacobson, Albert Laguna; Committee Members: Melissa Barton
Morgan Freeman: “Arctic Theatre: Racial Formation and Artistic Performance in the Polar North”: Advisor: Laura Wexler; Committee Members: Laura Barraclough, Tavia Nyong’o, Jami Powell
Alani Fujii: “Plantation Afterlives and Blackness, Hawaiʻi”: Advisor: Daniel Martinez HoSang; Committee Members: Hiʻilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart, Sunny Xiang, Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio (Hawaiʻi at Mānoa)
Madeleine Han: “Demilitarizing War: Culture, Tourism, and US Militarism in South Korea” Advisor: Lisa Lowe; Committee Members: Michael Denning, Mary Lui, Sunny Xiang
Ekalan Hou: “Aesthetics of Counterinsurgency” Advisors: Jennifer Raab, Lisa Lowe; Committee Members: Mary Lui, Pamela Lee
Saeeda Islam: “WARS WITH NO END: Carcerality and Surveillance of Latine and Muslim Migrants from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush” Advisors: Stephen Pitti, Elizabeth Hinton; Committee Members: Alicia Schmidt Camacho, Lisa Lowe
Sam Levin: “Perennial with the Earth: Spirituality and the American Right” Advisors: Daniel HoSang, Kathryn Lofton; Committee Members: Michael Denning, Calab Smith
Brennan McDaniel: “A Healing Instrument: The Harp in the Secular Clinic” Advisor: Zareena Grewal; Committee Members: Greta LaFleur, Sally Promey, Travis Zadeh
Dolma Ombadykow: “Shifting Mechanics of the Human: Race, Gender, Generation (1865-1968)” Advisor: Greta LaFleur; Committee Members: Joanna Radin, Kalindi Vora
Damanpreet Pelia: “Market of Souls: Missionaries and the Making of Nineteenth-Century Panjab” Advisors: Mary Lui, Sunil Amrith; Committee Members: Michael Denning, Lisa Lowe
Jocelyn Proietti: “Outsider Blackness: Black Radical Feminists and the Philosophy of Aesthetics, 1970-1996” Advisor: Daphne Brooks; Committee Members: Greta LaFleur, Matthew Jacobson, Kobena Mercer
Isra Syed: “Asian American Islam and the Law of Everyday Life” Advisor: Tisa Wenger; Committee Members: Kathryn Lofton, Mary Lui, Travis Zadeh
Babette Thomas: “ʻCan You Hear Me Now?’ Twentieth-Century Black Feminist Soundwork in Transmission and Reception” Advisor: Daphne Brooks; Committee Members: Brian Kane, Matthew Jacobson, Lisa Lowe
Taylor Thompson: “Banking Theater and the Choreography of Capital: A Performance History of 19th Century Black Political Economy” Advisors: Daphne Brooks, Erica Edwards; Committee Members: Destin Jeakins, Neferti Tadiar
Minh Vu: “Corrugated Care: The Kinship of Cardboard and Enfolded Militarisms” Advisors: Lisa Lowe, Sunny Xiang; Committee Members: Roderick Ferguson, Mary Lui
Yaprak Yildirim: “ʻTo Die as a Woman’: Feminicide and Islamist Neoliberalism” Advisors: Fatima El-Tayeb, Evren Savci; Committee Members: Lisa Lowe, Eda Pepi