Alumni

Karl Whittington

Karl Whittington (Ph.D. 2010) is Associate Professor of History of Art at The Ohio State University, where he has been teaching medieval art history since 2010. His essays have appeared in Gesta, Studies in Iconography, Mediaevalia, postmedieval, Transgender Studies Quarterly, Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide, The Gay and Lesbian Review, T...

Barbara Wisch

Barbara Wisch’s (PhD 1985) A Companion to Early Modern Rome, 1492–1692, edited by Pamela M. Jones, Barbara Wisch, and Simon Ditchfield, Brill’s Companions to European History 17 (Leiden: Brill, 2019), was chosen as the joint recipient of the 2020 Roland H. Bainton Prize for Reference Works by the Sixteenth Century Society & Conference, an international scholarly organization. Among the thirty multidisciplinary essays are “Building Brotherhood: Confraternal Piety, Patronage, and Place” by Wisch and “Printers and Publishers in Early...

Elaine Yau

Elaine Y. Yau (PhD 2015) recently completed an appointment as the Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in 2020. During her term, she co-curated “Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective” with Director and Chief Curator, Larry Rinder, organized the Art Wall installation featuring the art of Edie Fake, and assisted with the show, “Looking: The Art of Frederick Hammersley.”

Antonia Young

Antonia Young (2009) specializes in ancient Roman art, with an emphasis on Roman painting. She received her B.A. in Classical Civilizations from Wellesley College and her M.A. in Classics from U.C. Berkeley. As an art historian originally trained as a Classical philologist, her work explores the intersection of ancient Roman art, architecture, and literature. For example, her dissertation, “‘Green Architecture’: The Interplay of Art and Nature in Roman Houses and Villas” (supervised by Professor Christopher Hallett), examines the convergence of art and nature in Roman wall painting...

Marnin Young

Marnin Young (PhD 2005) is Associate Professor and Chair of Art History at Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University. He is the author of Realism in the Age of Impressionism: Painting and the Politics of Time (Yale University Press, 2015). The book received a Millard Meiss Publication Fund Grant from the College Art Association and an Honorable Mention for the Robert Motherwell Book Award. Dr. Young has published articles and reviews on nineteenth-century French painting in The Art Bulletin, Art History, ...

Patricia Yu

Patricia J. Yu is a doctoral candidate studying Chinese art with Professor Patricia Berger. Her dissertation addresses the Qing imperial garden of the Yuanming Yuan (Garden of Perfect Brightness) and the way in which its ruins and looted objects have been reproduced, reinterpreted, and reconstructed in modern and contemporary China. Her research interests also include Qing court art, art in cross-cultural translation, and issues of cultural heritage and preservation. She was a pre-doctoral fellow at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, under the scholar theme “Iconoclasm and...