In a dissertation entitled De-Camping: Towards a Gay-Political-Camp Theatre, John Fisher, a candidate for the Ph.D. in Dramatic Art, examines the political uses of camp theory and how the latter apply to a theatre of protest. For Fisher, who is also a writer and director, “decamping” suggests movement to a new notion of camp and a broader idea of camp’s possibilities as a tool for bringing about social change. Maintaining a focus on live theatrical performance, John Fisher views camp as an act of serious political commentary that may take place in the midst of the apparently frivolous. John Fisher has been named the Jeffrey Berg Fellow for 1999-2000.