Current Students
If you are a Northwestern graduate student who would like to affiliate with the critical theory cluster, please fill out this information form or email criticaltheory@northwestern.edu
Interested graduate students are added to the critical theory listserv and are notified about upcoming events and opportunities, and can use the listserv directly to initiate reading groups, share Critical Theory related event announcements, and similar graduate student initiated activity.
Black Studies
Carmen Crusoe carmencrusoe2025@u.northwestern.edu
Anthropology
Alumni
Art History
Maryam Athari maryamathari2021@u.northwestern.edu
Caitlin DiMartino caitlindimartino2022@u.northwestern.edu
Anna Dumont adumont@u.rochester.edu
Benjamin Jones BenjaminJones2023@u.northwestern.edu
David Jones davidjones2028@u.northwestern.edu
Ozge Karagoz okaragozge@u.northwestern.edu
Tamar Kharatishvili TamarKharatishvili2015@u.northwestern.edu
Brian Leahy BrianLeahy2020@u.northwestern.edu
Stephanie Lee stephanielee2024@u.northwestern.edu
Jacob Leveton JacobLeveton2017@u.northwestern.edu
Ruslana Lichtzier ruslanalichtzier2025@u.northwestern.edu
Thomas Love thomas.w.love@gmail.com
Risa Puelo Rpuleo@u.northwestern.edu
Talia Shabtay talia.shabtay@u.northwestern.edu
Alumni
Emma Chubb
Cameron McKee
Art Theory & practice
Lamia Abukhadra lamiaabukhadra2026@u.northwestern.eduLayan Attari layanattari2023@u.nothwestern.edu
Yani Aviles yaniaviles2021@u.northwestern.edu
Daniel Dobrow danieldobrow2025@u.northwestern.edu
Morisha Moodley morishamoodley2024@u.northwestern.edu
Cory Perry coryperry2023@u.northwestern.edu
Renee Royale reneebest2025@u.northwestern.edu
Eshan Rafi erafi@u.northwestern.edu
Isaac Vazquez isaacvazquez2022@u.northwestern.edu
Comparative Literature
Hannah Kadin hannahkadin2028@u.northwestern.edu
Jesús Muñoz j.munoz@u.northwestern.edu
Taymaz Pour Mohammad TaymazPourMohammad2014@u.northwestern.edu
Alumni
Menglu Gao
Ozge Kocak
Marjan Mohammadi
Scott Newman
Documentary media (school of communication)
Jacob Kessler JacobKessler2023@u.northwestern.edu
Laura Gede LauraGede2022@u.northwestern.edu
Eleanor Harmon eleanorharmon2023@u.northwestern.edu
Earth and planetary sciences
English
William Graves williamgraves2021@u.northwestern.edu
Adam Syvertsen AdamSyvertsen2025@u.northwestern.edu
Yuan-Chih Yen sreddyen@u.northwestern.edu
Anna Zalokostas azalokostas@u.northwestern.edu
Alumni
FEINBERG SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Sophia Shieh sophia.shieh@northwestern.edu
French and Italian
Maureen Winter MaureenWinter2021@u.northwestern.edu
Alumni
German
Alumni
History
Heather Menefee heathermenefee2015@u.northwestern.edu
Alumni
Jessica Biddlestone
Human Development and Social Policy
Media Technology & Society
Alumni
Erin Flynn
Medill School of Journalism, Integrated Marketing Communications
Alumni
Marta Cattaneo
Music
Alumni
Music Theory and Cognition
Michael Slattery michaelslattery2020@u.northwestern.eduAlumni
Stefan Greenfield-Casas
Performance Studies
Ivan Bujan IvanBujan2019@u.northwestern.edu
Gregory Manuel gmanuel@u.northwestern.edu
Gervais Marsh GervaisMarsh2021@u.northwestern.edu
Alumni
Kantara Souffrant
Philosophy
Carmen De Schryver carmendeschryver2021@u.northwestern.edu
Eskil Elling EskilElling2023@u.northwestern.edu
Kasey Hettig-Rolfe KaseyHettig-Rolfe2023@u.northwestern.edu
Alumni
Marzouq Alnusf
Henry Andrews
Chelsea Egbert
Debbie Goldgaber
Hannah Kovacs
Morganna Lambeth
Seth Mayer
William Parrott
Kyle Scott
Daniel Trujillo
Political Science
William French WilliamFrench2022@u.northwestern.edu
Audrey Nicolaides M7E8H9@u.northwestern.edu
Shaul Notkin shaulnotkin2018@u.northwestern.edu
Alumni
Javier Burdman
Arturo Chang
Marion Gutwein
Alan Kellner
Elizabeth Linn
Boris Litvin
Anna Morath
Andrew Munro
Tatiana Poddubnykh
Noga Rotem
Christopher Sardo
Swati Srivastava
Anna Terwiel
Desiree Weber
Religious Studies
Marlon Millner MarlonMillner2021@u.northwestern.edu
Alumni
Jennifer Callaghan
Joel David Harrison
Rhetoric and Public Culture/ Rhetoric, Media and Publics
Sarah Idzik sarah.idzik@gmail.com
Eric James EricJames2020@u.northwestern.edu
Alumni
J. Daniel Elam
Robert Elliot Mills
Racel Rigdon
Dylan Rollo
Robert Topinka
Zhiqiu Zhou
Screen Cultures
Julia Peres Guimaraes JuliaGuimaraes2022@u.northwestern.edu
Eleanor Harmon eleanorharmon2023@u.northwetern.edu
Myrna Moretti myrnamoretti2023@u.northwestern.edu
Kylie Walters kyliewalters@u.northwestern.edu
Ian Hartman Anthony
Pamela Krayenbuhl
SESP/Learning sciences
Sarah Lee spl@u.northwestern.edu
Miguel Angel Ovies-Bocanegra movies@u.northwestern.edu
Slavic Languages & Literatures
Maximilian Michael Gordon MaximilianGordon2012@u.northwestern.edu
Jacob Wirt jacobwirt2021@u.northwestern.edu
Alumni
Jessica Crane
Sociology
Alumni
Matthew Snow
Spanish & Portuguese
Alumni
Leonardo Gil Gomez
Minwook Oh
Cintia Vezzani
SpS/Master's in writing
Statistics
Eleanor Colligan eleanorcolligan2023@u.northwestern.edu
Technology and Social Behavior
Jessica Feuston jes.feustone@u.northwestern.edu
Kevin Ouyang kevinouyang2029@u.northwestern.edu
Theatre and Drama
Heather Grimm heathergrimm2024@u.northwestern.edu
Bethany Hughes