Current Students: Program in Critical Theory

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.

African American Studies

Charlene Carruthers charlenecarruthers@u.northwestern.edu
Carmen Crusoe carmencrusoe2025@u.northwestern.edu

Claudia Garcia-Rojas claudiagarciarojas2018@u.northwestern.edu

Mishana Garschi mishana@u.northwestern.edu

Isaac Ginsberg Miller isaacginsbergmiller@u.northwestern.edu

Casey Goonan caseygoonan@gmail.com

Charina Herrera charinaherrera2025@u.northwestern.edu

Æryk Hollis O'Neil aeryk.hollis.oneil@u.northwestern.edu

Chloe Jones chloejones2024@u.northwestern.edu

José Madrid josemadrid2024@u.northwestern.edu

Candice Merritt CandiceMerritt2023@u.northwestern.edu

Christopher Montague christophermontague2023@u.northwestern.edu

Jordan Mulkey JordanMulkey2025@u.northwestern.edu

Alumni

Cecilio Cooper

Bernard Forjwuor

Tyrone Palmer

Sam Tenorio

Anthropology

Ashley Agbasoga ashleyagbasoga2021@u.northwestern.edu
Andrew Kim andrewkim2022@northwestern.edu

Stephen Sullivan stephensullivan2016@u.northwestern.edu

Alumni
Elisa Lanari

Nazli Ozkan

Art History

Art Theory & practice

Yani Aviles yaniaviles2021@u.northwestern.edu
Eshan Rafi erafi@u.northwestern.edu
Isaac Vazquez isaacvazquez2022@u.northwestern.edu

Comparative Literature

Omoyemi Ajisebutu OmoyemiAjisebutu2023@u.northwestern.edu

Xena Amro XenaAmro2026@u.northwestern.edu
Viola Bao violabao2024@u.northwestern.edu

Raina Bhagat rainabhagat2024@u.northwestern.edu

Carly Bortman B3J1B8@u.northwestern.edu

Eloisa Bressan eloisabressan2020@u.northwestern.edu

Timothy Cannon TimothyCannon2025@u.northwestern.edu

Jose Chavez josechavez2025@u.northwestern.edu

Sorrel Dunn sorreldunn@u.northwestern.edu

Menglu Gao m.gao@u.northwestern.edu

Sabrina Jaromin sabrinajaromin2012@u.northwestern.edu

Kang Kang kangkang@u.northwestern.edu
Sarah Mann-O'Donnell sarahmannodonnell2013@u.northwestern.edu

Maïté Marciano maite.marciano.2019@u.northwestern.edu

Lorena Iglesias Melendez lorenaiglesiasmelendez2015@u.northwestern.edu
Jesús Muñoz j.munoz@u.northwestern.edu

Mauricio Oportus Preller mauriciooportus2023@u.northwestern.edu
Taymaz Pour Mohammad TaymazPourMohammad2014@u.northwestern.edu

Azadeh Safaeian AzadehSafaeian2015@u.northwestern.edu

Ben Trivers benjamintrivers2011@u.northwestern.edu

Ariel Weiner ArielWeiner2022@u.northwestern.edu

Alumni

Genevieve Amaral

Brett Brehm

Virgil Brower

Arif Camoglu

Charles Coustille

Priyanka Deshmukh

Caitlyn Doyle

Maziyar Faridi
Ozge Kocak

Marjan Mohammadi
Scott Newman

Folahan Olowoyeye

Saein Park

Kritish Rajbhandari

Benjamin Robinson

Jonas Rosenbrück

Ben Schacht

Vincent Valour

Caroline Vial

Documentary media (school of communication)

Jacob Kessler JacobKessler2023@u.northwestern.edu
Laura Gede LauraGede2022@u.northwestern.edu
Eleanor Harmon eleanorharmon2023@u.northwestern.edu

English

Nina Ahn Moon NinaAhn2015@u.northwestern.edu

Agam Balooni agambalooni2025@u.northwestern.edu

Jeremiah Barker jeremiahbarker2021@u.northwestern.edu

Samantha Botz samanthabotz2020@u.northwestern.edu

Kaitlin Browne kaitlinbrowne2022@u.northwestern.edu

Min Li Chan minchan2021@u.northwestern.edu

Maria Dikcis mariadikcis2014@u.northwestern.edu

Bradley Dubos bradleydubos2020@u.northwestern.edu

Mohwanah Fetus mohwanahfetus2017@u.northwestern.edu
William Graves williamgraves2021@u.northwestern.edu

Eric Hengstebeck eric.hengstebeck@gmail.com

Alexandra Ibarra alexandraibarra2025@u.northwestern.edu

Antonio Papanikolas antoniopapanikolas2018@u.northwestern.edu

William Pierce williampierce2018@u.northwestern.edu

Govind Narayan Ponnuchamy gnarayan@u.northwestern.edu

Cameron Schell cameronschell2015@u.northwestern.edu
Adam Syvertsen AdamSyvertsen2025@u.northwestern.edu

Harrington Weihl harringtonweihl2020@u.northwestern.edu

Elizabeth Winter elizabethwinter2025@u.northwestern.edu
Yuan-Chih Yen sreddyen@u.northwestern.edu
Anna Zalokostas azalokostas@u.northwestern.edu

Alumni

Erin Andrews

Casey Caldwell

Bonnie Etherington

Rickey Fayne

Chad Infante

Delali Kumavie

Todd Nordgren

Tanushree Vachharajani

French and Italian

Etienne Lussier EtienneLussier2021@u.northwestern.edu

Noran Mohamed noranmohamed2019@u.northwestern.edu

Jessica Passos jessicapassos2020@u.northwestern.edu

Amanda Parraguez amandaparraguez2025@u.northwestern.edu
Maureen Winter MaureenWinter2021@u.northwestern.edu

Tamara Tasevska tamaratasevska2019@u.northwestern.edu

Alumni

Tanushree Vachharajani

German

Eleonora Antonakaki Giannisi EleonoraAntonakakiGiannisi2026@u.northwestern.edu

Wiebke Bullermann wiebkebullermann2015@u.northwestern.edu

Robert Świstelnicki RobertSwistelnicki2025@u.northwestern.edu

Alumni

Clemens Ackerman

Jonathan Agins

Hector Joniel Feliciano

Henrik Sunde Wilberg

History

Miguel Giron miguelgiron2025@u.northwestern.edu
Alexandrea Keith alexandreakeith2025@u.northwestern.edu
Heather Menefee heathermenefee2015@u.northwestern.edu

Eunike Setiadarma eunikesetiadarma2019@u.northwestern.edu

Weiliang Song weiliangsong2026@u.northwestern.edu

Angela Tate angelatate2022@u.northwestern.edu

Alumni
Jessica Biddlestone

Michael Brownrigg

Human Development and Social Policy

Alumni

Kim Fernandes

Media Technology & Society

Mora Matassi moramatassi@u.northwestern.edu

Sohyeon Hwang sohyeonhwang@u.northwestern.edu

Nash Jenkins nash@u.northwestern.edu

Chelsea Peterson-Salahuddin ChelseaPetersonSalahuddin2013@u.northwestern.edu

Alumni
Erin Flynn

Medill School of Journalism, Integrated Marketing Communications

Alumni
Marta Cattaneo

Music

Miguel Garcia mgarcia@u.northwestern.edu

Stefan Greenfield-Casas StefanGreenfield-Casas2022@u.northwestern.edu

Mick (Bing Nan) Lim binglim2026@u.northwestern.edu
Ben Weissman benjaminweissman2017@u.northwestern.edu

Benjamin Zucker benjaminzucker2022@u.northwestern.edu

Alumni

Kimberly Ackney

Kirsten Carithers

Kyle Kaplan

Miriam Piilonen

Olga Sanchéz-Kisielewska

Performance Studies

Arnaldo Rodriguez Bague arnaldorodriguez2022@u.northwestern.edu
Ivan Bujan IvanBujan2019@u.northwestern.edu

Ali Faraj AliFaraj2022@u.northwestern.edu

Ethan Fukuto fukuto@u.northwestern.edu

Nathan Lamp nathanlamp2015@u.northwestern.edu

Madeleine Le Cesne madeleine.lecesne@u.northwestern.edu

Malú Machuca Rose malu@u.northwestern.edu

Jonathan Magat jonathanmagat2018@u.northwestern.edu
Gregory Manuel gmanuel@u.northwestern.edu
Gervais Marsh GervaisMarsh2021@u.northwestern.edu

Didier Morelli didiermorelli1@hotmail.com

Justin Moore justinmoore2023@u.northwestern.edu
Cordelia Rizzo almarizzo2024@u.northwestern.edu
Enzo Vasquez enzo@u.northwestern.edu

Benjamin Zender brz@u.northwestern.edu

Alumni

Misty De Berry

David Calder

Kelly Chung

Colleen Daniher

Eddie Gamboa

Wilfredo Gomez

Joonsuh Jo

Margaret Lebron

Andreea Micu

Shoniqua Roach

Ashlie Sandoval
Kantara Souffrant

Philosophy

Marzouq Alnusf m.alnusf@u.northwestern.edu

Bernardo Barzana BernardoBarzana2025@u.northwestern.edu

Hansen Breitling HansenBreitling2023@u.northwestern.edu

Alan Chavoya alanchavoya2024@u.northwestern.edu
Phedias Christodoulides V7J1P5@u.northwestern.edu

Carlos Coronado CarlosCoronado2024@u.northwestern.edu

Corbin Covington corbin.covington@u.northwestern.edu
Carmen De Schryver carmendeschryver2021@u.northwestern.edu
Eskil Elling EskilElling2023@u.northwestern.edu

Christina Falceto ChristinaFalceto2024@u.northwestern.edu

Samuel Filby samuelfilby2025@u.northwestern.edu

Mark Gorthey MarkGorthey2025@u.northwestern.edu
Kasey Hettig-Rolfe KaseyHettig-Rolfe2023@u.northwestern.edu

Abigail Iturra abigailIturra2025@u.northwestern.edu

Khin Oo Khin KhinKhin2024@u.northwestern.edu

Eli Lichtenstein eli.b.lichtenstein@u.northwestern.edu

Mauricio Maluff Masi mauriciomaluff2013@u.northwestern.edu

Spencer Nabors spencernabors2026@u.northwestern.edu
Gisela Reyes GiselaReyes2024@u.northwestern.edu

Michael Schwarz MichaelSchwarz2021@u.northwestern.edu

John Vandenburgh johnathanvandenburgh2021@u.northwestern.edu

Ken-Terika Zellner Ken-TerikaZellner2025@u.northwestern.edu

Alumni
Henry Andrews
Chelsea Egbert
Debbie Goldgaber

David Benjamin Johnson
Hannah Kovacs
Morganna Lambeth
Seth Mayer

Kurt Mertel
William Parrott
Kyle Scott
Daniel Trujillo

Political Science

Rhiannon Auriemma Rhiannonauriemma2019@u.northwestern.edu

Malia Bowers maliabowers2015@u.northwestern.edu

Tristan Bradshaw tristanbradshaw2017@u.northwestern.edu

Owen Brown OwenBrown2021@u.northwestern.edu

Timothy Charlebois TimothyCharlebois2022@u.northwestern.edu

Shah Zeb Chaudhary shahchaudhary2023@u.northwestern.edu

Jinxue Chen jinxuechen2025@u.northwestern.edu

Emma Davis emmadavis2025@u.northwestern.edu

Ceyda Erten ceydaerten2020@u.northwestern.edu

Lucien Ferguson lucienferguson2021@u.northwestern.edu
William French WilliamFrench2022@u.northwestern.edu
Salih Emre Gercek gercek@u.northwestern.edu

Kyle Jones KyleJones2021@u.northwestern.edu

Nathalia Justo NathaliaJusto2015@u.northwestern.edu

Shai Karp shaikarp@u.northwestern.edu

Emerson Murray emersonmurray2026@u.northwestern.edu

Elizabeth Orrego Torres ElizabethOrregoTorres2024@u.northwestern.edu

Usdin Martinez Orellanos usdinmartinez2024@u.northwestern.edu

Samuel McChesney samuelmcchesney2023@u.northwestern.edu

Evgenia Mikriukova evgeniiamikriukova2020@u.northwestern.edu
Audrey Nicolaides M7E8H9@u.northwestern.edu
Shaul Notkin shaulnotkin2018@u.northwestern.edu

Dinara Urazova dinaraurazova2024@u.northwestern.edu

Charlotte Mencke charlottemencke2025@u.northwestern.edu

Larissa dePalma LarissaGamaDePaula2026@u.northwestern.edu

Alumni

Javier Burdman

Lucy Cane

Gent Carrabregu

Giuseppe Cumella

Horia Dijmarescu

Jennifer Forestal
Marion Gutwein

Mark Kelley
Alan Kellner
Elizabeth Linn
Boris Litvin

Christina LoTempio

Gde Metera
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

Ryan Bince rlbince@u.northwestern.edu
J. Dakota Brown jdakotabrown@gmail.comBeatrice Choi beachoi@gmail.com

Skylar Clark skylarclark2026@u.northwestern.edu

Marissa Croft marissacroft2021@u.northwestern.edu

Lucia Delaini LuciaDelaini2015@u.northwestern.edu

Madeline Denison mdenison@u.northwestern.edu

Patricia England tricia.england@gmail.com

Ashley Ferrell ashleyferrell@u.northwestern.edu

Kaitlyn Filip filip@u.northwestern.edu

Gabby Garcia GabrielaGarcia2014@u.northwestern.edu

Adam Goldsmith adamgoldsmith2024@u.northwestern.edu
Sarah Idzik sarah.idzik@gmail.com
Eric James EricJames2020@u.northwestern.edu

Harriette Kevill-Davies HarrietteKevillDavies2014@u.northwestern.edu

Sarah Lingo sarahlingo2020@u.northwestern.edu

David Molina dmmolina@gmail.com

Dylan Rollo DylanRollo2020@u.northwestern.edu

Eva Rubens Celem evarubenscelem2026@u.northwestern.edu

Bipin Sebastian BipinSebastian2024@u.northwestern.edu

Alumni
Lauren Michelle DeLacruz
J. Daniel Elam
Robert Elliot Mills
Racel Rigdon
Robert Topinka
Zhiqiu Zhou