Race and Performance Lab
The Race and Performance Lab, led by Associate Professor Fiona Ngô (American Studies), centers Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) scholars and artists to address historic and contemporary issues of slavery, settler colonialism, war, immigration, gender violence, anti-LGBTQAI+ legislations, and mass incarceration. Building upon interdisciplinary approaches to the study of race, gender, class, and citizenship in transnational American Studies, the lab seeks to center the arts and performance as key modes of knowledge production and methodological innovation bringing together the fields of performance studies, gender, women, and sexuality studies, African American studies, Indigenous studies; Asian American studies, Latinx studies, and critical refugee studies through creative programming, collaborative work and experimental performance.