Global Arts and Cultures

GRADUATE PROGRAM DIRECTOR
Leora Maltz-Leca

The MA program in Global Arts and Cultures (GAC) invites inquiry into pressing contemporary issues at the intersection of globalization and cultural production. By uniting critical theories from the humanities and social sciences with studies in the visual, performative and literary arts, students in the program investigate diverse forms of making and their entanglements with systems of power and resistance.

From Nayyab Naveed's experimental film Nurs Shehtoot (2025)

Thesis Title
UNDER SIEGE: TEMPORAL ECOLOGIES, KINSHIP AND THE METHODOLOGICAL POLITICS OF RESISTANCE

Areeha Ahmad

A film strip scratched and stained by hand, layered in deep red hues, textured, fragmented and raw; an elegy of loss made material.

Cream paper with rough edges lies mostly blank on a wooden table beside a blue pen. Blue handwritten title at the top reads, “Inconclusion: As Has Been Demonstrated.

Thesis Title
Writing From the Rift: Queer Temporality and the Refusal of Resolution

Daniela Ruiz Perez

Discomfort

"Ottoman-style" dining room set by the furniture company "Luxury Line."

Thesis Title
The House Has a Political View: Domestic Material Culture Under AKP Rule in Turkey

Pinar Baser

Three people are visible in the dark at a haunted attraction park. One is a scare actor in a scary costume. The other two, visitors to the attraction, huddle together in response to the scare.

Thesis Title
An Axe to the Funny Bone: Curated Instability and Horror-Comedy Intersections in American Storytelling

Sam Box

A large white label affixed to a concrete wall. The name of the work, the materials used, and a brief paragraph about the installation written in English; below, the name of the work, the materials used, and a brief paragraph about the installation written in Spanish.

Thesis Title
Looking At Labels, Examining Values: Knowledge, Narrative, and Multilingualism in American Art Museums

Mary Mitchell

Bilingual label in English and Spanish written for Chiaru Shiota's Home Less Home displayed at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston in August 2025.

Students

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April Liu	Website	Instagram	LinkedIn
Areeha Ahmad		Instagram	LinkedIn
Daniela Ruiz Perez		Instagram
Mary Mitchell			LinkedIn
Pinar Baser
Sam Box			LinkedIn
Rachel Zheng
Sasha Kruger