Liboiron Awarded Two Fellowships

Max Liboiron, a PhD candidate in the NYU Steinhardt Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, was awarded two fellowships for next year: the NYU Humanities Initiative Fellowship and an International Fellowship from the American Association of University Women (AAUW), one of the world's largest sources of funding for graduate women.

Liboiron's dissertation describes how 21st century plastic pollution, in the form of ocean plastics and persistant plastic chemicals that accumulate in human tissue, defy 20th century models of pollution. Her artistic work focuses on trash as a site of intersection for environmentalisms, capitalism, consumerism, and participation. She is an author on the Discard Studies Blog and coordinates NYU's Green Grants Program. She received her BFA with distinction, with a minor in biology, from Mount Allison University, NB, Canada, and her MFA with a certificate of cultural studies from SUNY Stony Brook, NY.