• PhD Student, University of Maryland, Elinor Ostrom Fellow

Eran Eads is a PhD student in Theatre & Performance Studies at the University of Maryland. He earned a BT in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa, and a BA in English from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He was an Elinor Ostrom Fellow during the 2022-2023 academic year. His research interests include reconceptualizing what people consider to be "public" or "publics" and examining how considering these networks as private changes the ways that both the networks themselves perform and the way individuals perform in those networks.