A warm and enthusiastic welcome to the exceptional individuals joining our newest cohort of Rhetoric Ph.D. students this fall! We’re excited to have you bring your unique voices, talents, and ambitions to our vibrant community at Cal. Your presence promises to deepen and energize our shared intellectual environment. Here's to a rewarding and inspiring journey ahead - full of discovery, creativity, and academic achievement!
Nida Ghouse
Nida is a writer and curator, whose interests include the relationship between movement and thought, in both classical and modern iterations, with a particular emphasis on the labour of listening. She has previously taught at the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities at Princeton University, the Centre for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, and the Sound Studies and Sonic Arts department at Berlin University of the Arts.
Angel Gutierrez
Angel is a performance artist and researcher, holding a BA in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania. Their research-practice concerns violence, land, performance, sovereignty-autonomy, communal governance, and trans life, amongst other thematics.
Ori Loewinger
Ori has a B.S. from UC Berkeley in Conservation and Resource Studies with a focus in Environmental Philosophy. He is interested in exploring the relationship between the ecological and the political, the place of technics in ecology and evolution, and the limits of cybernetics in the understanding of life.
Pia Paul
Pia received her MA in intellectual history from New York University, where she researched the transformation of psychiatric classification systems in twentieth century transatlantic medicine. Her current work examines the intersections of physiological and philosophical forms of systematicity, and the political metaphors that emerge from their entanglement.