PhD in Communication Studies 2023

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

MA in Theatre and Performance Studies 2016

University of Maryland at College Park

BA in Philosophy/Theatre 2007

Reed College, Portland, OR

Honors & Awards

New Scholars' Prize (2025)

Awarded by the International Federation of Theatre Research for the essay "Crypto-Coloniality and Chronopolitical Performance: Commemorating Anti-Authoritarian Resistance in Athens, Greece" (an early draft of "Pedestrian Theatre as Critical Urban Historiography" ultimately published in Research in Drama Education)

Research Support Grant (2025)

Awarded by the American Society for Theatre Research to promote the work of Researchers with Heavy Teaching Loads in support of Critical Histories, Pedestrian Dramaturgies: Walking Tour Performance in Historically Black Neighborhoods of Durham, NC ($1000)

Arts Innovation Grant (principal investigator, 2022-2023)

Awarded by Arts Everywhere, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in support of Daniel Dilliplane’s doctoral research-creation project: performance activism workshop Sensing Bodies In Common ($3000)

Collaborative Online International Learning Curriculum Development Award (team member, 2021)

Awarded by Connecting Carolina Classrooms with the World, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in support of Adam Vensenyi’s “Theatre and/after Pandemic” course in partnership with Queens University Belfast and the National University of Ireland, Galway ($4500)

Collaborative Online International Learning Curriculum Development Award (team member, 2022)

Awarded by Connecting Carolina Classrooms with the World, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in support of Adam Vensenyi’s “Theatre and Sustainability” course in partnership with Queens University Belfast and the National University of Ireland, Galway ($4500)

Award for Outstanding Achievement in Service and Leadership (2019)

Awarded by the Department of Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Swain Studio Six Performance Series Award (principal investigator, 2018)

Awarded by the Performance Studies Faculty of the Department of Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in support research-creation of devised, site-specific performance piece Utopia Machine ($1000)

Arts and Humanities Community Discussion Grant (principal investigator, 2017)

Awarded by ArtsView Children’s Theatre, Longview, TX, USA in support performance ethnography project Unpacking Longview ($1000)

Doctoral Merit Teaching Assistant Fellowship (2016-2017)

Awarded by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Graduate School to support doctoral study in Communication Studies ($50,000)

Spirit of InterPlay Award (2016)

Awarded by Body Wisdom, Oakland, CA to support continuing education in recognition of significant original research in participatory arts ($3000)

National Science Foundation Grant (team member, 2014)

Engineering Ethics Education Research, Ayush Gupta (PI), “Modeling the dynamics of integrated technical and moral reasoning in contexts of socio-scientific issues” ($225,561)

Theatre Patrons Association Scholarship (2014-2015)

Awarded by the University of Maryland at College Park to support graduate study in Theatre and Performance Studies ($35000)

Courses Taught

Performance, Culture, and Communication

Political Communication and Social Movement Activism 

Media Theory and Analysis

Gender Communication 

Environmental Communication

Critical Studies of Mass Media

Intercultural Communication

Performance for Social Change 

Theatre and Sustainability 

Theatre and/after Pandemic 

Introduction to Performance Studies 

Media and Popular Culture 

First-Person Film-Making 

Introduction to Media Production 

The Rhetoric of Social Movements 

Rhetoric and Public Issues 

Public Speaking 

Introduction to Interpersonal/Organizational Communication 

Introduction to Media History/Theory/Criticism

Professional Service

Performance Working Group Co-Chair, Cultural Studies Association, 2024-Present.

Stetson Showcase Judge, Undergraduate Student Research Competition, April 2026. 

Prize Review Committee, New Scholars’ and Helsinki Prizes Essay Review Committee, International Federation of Theatre Research, 2025-Present. 

Second Reader, B.A. Senior Research Projects, Department of Communication and Media Studies, Stetson University, 2025-Present. 

Sofia Avalo, “Sounds of Resistance: A Decolonial Approach to Bad Bunny’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos,” 2025-6 

Najae Gaffney, “Laughing Through Struggles: The Rhetoric of 2 Broke Girls,” 2026 

Will Mancuso, “Living Like Timmy: Representation of Disability in South Park,” 2025-6 

Kyra Sullivan, “Don’t Sugar Coat It: Exploring Invitational Rhetoric of Queer and Crip Temporalities in Contemporary Art,” 2025-6 

Douglas Williams III, “Rhetorics of Identification and Division in Malcolm X’s ‘Message to the Grassroots,’” 2025 

Scientific Review and Conference Organizing Committees, Difference Diaspora and the Nation: The Politics and Aesthetics of Minoritarian Performance in 20th and 21st Century Italy, funded by the Cariplo Foundation, Università degli Studi di Milano Statale, November 2024-February 2025

InterPlay Performance Practice, Board of Directors for arts and education non-profit organization Body Wisdom, Inc. 2017-2021.

Grant Administration and Review for Racial Equity grant program, 2020-2022.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, co-founding member, 2018-2022.

International Conference Planning Committee, 2019-2020.

Communication Studies Graduate Students Association, University of North Carolina.

President 2018-19; Secretary 2017-18.

Hurston Collective for Critical Performance Ethnography, University of North Carolina.

President 2017-18; Secretary 2018-19.

Graduate Association for Students of Performance, University of Maryland.

President 2015-16.

Graduate Student Government, University of Maryland.

Representative of Theatre and Performance Studies 2014-2016.

Publications