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AIAR Current Student Profiles
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Keyania Campbell
Research Interests/Topics: Intangible cultural heritage, sonic art installations using augmented and virtual reality.
Arts Background: Musician
Minor Area: Information
Keyania draws inspiration from hip-hop music. She tries to embody the characteristics of the genre in her work: storytelling, skill and reverence.
Personal Links: http://amfm.surge.sh/
Email: campbell11@email.arizona.edu
Karen De la Rosa
Minor: Psychology
Benjamen Douglas
Research Interests/Topics: History of white supremacy in the American cultural sector, the legacy of white supremancy in the management of cultural institutions, ways public funders can effectively use policy and grantmaking toward dismantling white supremacy. Other interests as a scholar and practitioner include racial equity, arts management, cultural policy, capacity building, organizational effectiveness, nonprofit management, and talent investment.
Arts Background: Arts management - music, theater, literary arts and visual arts.
Personal Links: https://www.bandwidthprojects.com/about
https://gradcenter.arizona.edu/university-fellows-program/meet-fellows#DouglasB
Johnathan Frew
Research Interests/Topics: Drum and Bugle Corps in the United States and how young performers can find valuabel opportunities for self-expression in the activity. More broadly, I am interested in the United States Marching Band transitions, Youth Performing Arts and their organizations, and gender expression through performance.
Arts Background: B.A. in Folklore & Ethnomusicology and African American & Diaspora Studies from Indiana University - Bloomington. Has performed as a saxophonist for 10+ years through school bands and independent gig performances.
I believe my work with Drum Corps will have meaningful implications for understanding the experiences of young artists through their musical performances. By better understanding all of the opportunities for self-expression and exploration that performance can offer young artists, music educators and program organizers can contruct their curriculum and programming to better foster an environment that promotes growth for young artists.
Email: jfrew@email.arizona.edu
Lindsey McHugh
Research Interests/Topics: Music education, musical theatre, vocal performance, blindness advocacy, arts administration, directing/conducting
Arts Background: Music (voice and piano), arranging and directing music for church and thatre.
I envision changing the way music is taught in schools and in private settings so that it's more inclusive of those with disabilities. Instead of the needs of the many outweighing the needs of the few, the needs of the few can greatly develop the skills of the many. Ideally this is accomplished through encouragement of musical independence and interdependence. I would also like to facilitate change in the way those with visual impairments are perceived by those without, by means of the arts.
Email: lamchugh@email.arizona.edu
Maria del Mar Navarro
Research Interests/Topics: Returned to work on PhD after teaching Visual Communication in academia for 10 years. Research interests focus on information graphics, pictoral statistics, and pictoral numeracy.
Minor: Art & Visual Culture Education
Sydney Streightiff
Research Interests/Topics: Creating arts programming centered around health and wellness, military dependents and neurodivergent individuals.
Arts Background: Performance - Oboe and English Horn
Personal Links:
https://soundcloud.com/sydney-streightiff/aiarpodcast/s-2a4BzTdlyhh
I will create social change by collaborating with communities to evaluate their needs and create programming to serve them. I hope to take what I've learned in music performance and Applied Intercultural Arts Research and uplift overlooked communities through sustainable arts programming.
Rebecca Thompson
Research Interests/Topics: Wellness, arts-based research, addiction, health and the arts
Arts Background: MFA sculpture - large scale public arts, national work, universities, corporations and private collections
Minor Area: Journalism
Personal Links: rebeccathompsonscuplture.com
My research seeks to contribute to the evidence that participating in a desireable form of nature-based art practice enhances health and wellness especially as it relates to recovery from addiction.
Email: rlt2@email.arizona.edu
Zhiyu (Gabby) Wen
Research Interests/Topics: Combining music and virutal reality to create an immersive environment for older adults with dementia, to reduce their emotional and behavioral disturbances to improve their quality of life.
Minor: Neuropsychology
Arts Background: Majored in vocal performing during undergraduate studies at South China Normal University then swtiched focus to music and dementia for master's degree at Hong Kong Baptist University.
The AIAR program provides abundant opportunities that enable me to explore my research from multidimensional aspects. Its diversity and flexibility are most appealing to me.
Email: zhiyuwen@email.arizona.edu
Tracy Howe
Research Interests/Topics: Social movements, cultural organizing, eschatologies and Utopian/Dystopian vision in social movements, spiritualities of social movements.
Arts Background: Music, songwriting, production, liturgical writing
Personal Links:
RestorationVillageArts.org
TracyHoweMusic.com
I ultimately hope to document some aspect of contemporary social movements in a way that honors those working within it helps to build resilience and community in order to sustain it.
Email: thowe2021@email.arizona.edu
Jing Xia
Minor: Health Behavior/Promotion
Email: xiajing@email.arizona.edu
Yunjia Yang
Research Interests/Topics: Dance as an intervention for disease prevention and health promotion among older adults
Arts Background: Dance
Minor: Public Health
As a non-pharmaceutical intervention, dance benefits people's physical, mental, cognitive and social health. Dance can be a supplement to existing medical systems in terms of disease prevention and health promotion.
Email: yunjiayang@email.arizona.edu
