Spring 2024 seminar: Ph.D. candidate, performing and media arts
Ariel Dela Cruz (they/he/siya) is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University. Their doctoral research examines how Filipinx tomboys engage in and reimagine care work across the Filipinx labour diaspora. They are particularly interested in how tomboys utilize performance to negotiate, mess with, and refuse the violences of empire. They hold a BSc with Honours in Neuroscience and Psychology and a M.A. in Women and Gender Studies from the University of Toronto, and their doctoral research is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship.