Fine Arts Doctoral Students - Art Major
KATY BALLARD
ALLISON BLACK
GREG DELAPAIX – My interest is in analogous elements, structural interstices and connections between visual art and music. I am also interested in emerging technologies, shamanism (especially with regard to creativity), geography, and non-human interventions in human history. Outside my main areas of research, creative visual and musical work varies between traditional and digital. Click here for CV. Click here for website.
FRANK DONATO - My efforts with photography comprises works in both motion and still imagery, performance-based work as well as large scale, site-specific installation in addition to more conventional modes including practices ranging from alternative processes to documentary films. [read more]
JEANNE HAGGARD – Jeanne Haggard is a third year Ph.D. student, concentrating on arts administration and museum studies. Her dissertation research will be focused on an internship in a non-profit arts organization. She came to the program after working in the non-profit world, and at a small private liberal arts university.
YUAN-TA HSU – Yuan-Ta Hsu is a second year Ph.D. student from Taiwan. Before he entered in Texas Tech University, he was an contemporary art critic and an university lecturer in Taiwan. His dissertation will focus on the nostalgia in Taiwan contemporary photography.
E.K. JEONG – A native of Korea, Eunkyung has been living and teaching in Weatherford, Oklahoma. She began as a part-time student during summer 2006 and will become a full-time student in the program in fall 2007.
LINA KATTAN – I am in the second year of the doctoral program. Originally, I am from Saudi Arabia. I was a Lecturer at King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, KSA, and now I am on a scholarship from my government to pursue my PhD studies at Texas Tech University. My major is contemporary painting. Currently, I am interested in doing research on the female representation in the Arabian arts, and the misrepresentation of the Arabian women in the media.
PATTI KOEMEL
ABED MONAWAR
TREY SHIRLEY – Trey Shirley is a second year Ph.D. student from Snyder, Texas. With a background in religious studies and grahpic design, Trey is interested in American religious visual culture. His current research is focused on religious branding and the visual imagery produced as a result of the intermixing of capitalism and faith.
EDWIN SMITH
Edwin Smith is a second year Ph.D. student from Bermuda. His general interest is in the value of the Bermudian artist in the area of social comentary. Specific interest is in the issues of identity and relationship.
BRYAN WHEELER
SARA PESO WHITE – Sara, from Lubbock, is in her second year in the program. Her research focuses on critical analyses of Native American representation and their respective art histories. She has received the American Indian Graduate Center Fellowship during the past four years for which she receives $1,000 each semester. In March she will be presenting two papers at The Advancement of Women in Higher Education Conference at Texas Tech. One paper is titled “White Painted Woman as Creator of Apache Warrior Women. The other titled “Genderland” discusses the interdisciplinary art performance exhibition organized by her and presented at the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts in fall 2006, which included community artists, faculty, graduate and undergraduate students.