Alumni

Samantha Henneberry

This past year, Samantha Henneberry (2008) completed museum study and fieldwork in Greece for her dissertation on Lakonian warrior-hoplite iconography and the role of diverse craft traditions in shaping warrior identity and social memory. While the Jacob Hirsch Fellow at the American School in Athens, she researched in various collections, including the National Archaeological and Acropolis Museums in Athens, Sparta Archaeological Museum, and Altes Museum in Berlin, and traveled throughout the archaic landscapes of the southern...

Stephanie Hohlios

Stephanie M. Hohlios specializes in modern and contemporary art from Japan. Her research interests include performance (broadly defined); gender, sexuality, and the body; labor identity and proletarian art; regionalism; transnational identity; trauma, affect, and memory. She has taught art history courses on the global modern and contemporary; Buddhist visuality and architecture; Japan; and Asia.

Her forthcoming dissertation examines the intersection of labor, gender, and the arts in a former coal mining community in Kyushu, Japan from the Early to Late Twentieth Century. It argues...

Aaron Hyman

Aaron M. Hyman (PhD 2017) is assistant professor in the Department of the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University. His first book, Rubens in Repeat: The Logic of the Copy n Colonial Latin America, is forthcoming (July, 2021) with the Getty Research Institute. A specialist of early modern art in the Spanish Empire, he has published in Colonial Latin American Review, Representations, Art Bulletin, and Print Quarterly, among other venues. He was recipient of the 2018 Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize from the College Art Association.

Claire Ittner

Claire Ittner (2024) studies modern and contemporary art of the Americas, with interests in the art and
visual culture of the African Diaspora in the American South and Caribbean. Her research
interests include mobility and migration, patronage networks and theories of artistic value, and
systems of training and credentialling. Her dissertation project, Fellow Travelers: The Artist-
Researchers of the Rosenwald Fellowship Program, 1928-1948, examines the relationship
between the non-profit sector and the arts, focusing on the merit-based fellowship programs...

Kristopher W. Kersey

Kristopher W. Kersey is associate professor of art history at UCLA, where he researches Japanese art, design, and aesthetics. His first book Facing Images: Medieval Japanese Art and the Problem of Modernity (Penn State University Press, 2024) models a new paradigm for the study of art history, one that moves beyond reductive West/rest and modern/pre-modern frameworks. His work has been supported by fellowships from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA), the Getty Research...

Riad Kherdeen

Riad Kherdeen (PhD 2024) studies global modern art and architecture, with a focus on the region of West Asia/Middle East and North Africa (MENA). His dissertation project, titled “Spectral Modernisms: Decolonial Aesthetics and the Art of Resistance in Early Post-Protectorate Morocco,” is a novel study of modernist art and architecture in Morocco between the 1950s and 1970s. Riad’s interests fall within three main clusters of study: the first is in comparative and planetary modernisms via postcolonial studies and critical theory; the second is in the study of perception, including...

Sonal Khullar

Sonal Khullar (Ph.D. 2009) has been appointed W. Norman Brown Associate Professor of South Asian Studies in the History of Art Department at the University of Pennsylvania effective July 1, 2020. She is completing a book manuscript, The Art of Dislocation: Conflict and Collaboration in Contemporary Art from South Asia, under advance contract with the University of California Press. She is editing a volume, From Kitabkhana [Library] to Karkhana [Workshop]: The Arts of the...

Christina Kiaer

Christina Kiaer (1995) is thrilled to announce the publication of her long-gestated book Collective Body: Aleksandr Deineka at the Limit of Socialist Realism (University of Chicago Press, 2024). This year, Christina was named the Frances Hooper Professor in the Arts and Humanities at Northwestern University, where she has been teaching for 18 years. She has embarked on a new project on post-war Soviet textile artist Anna Andreeva and the women’s textile design collective at the Red Rose factory in Moscow, named after Rosa Luxemburg. She is curating an...

Jinah Kim

Jinah Kim (PhD 2006) is Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of History of Art & Architecture at Harvard University. Her first book, Receptacle of the Sacred: Illustrated Manuscripts and the Buddhist Book Cult in South Asia (UC Press, 2013) earned AAS Bernard Cohen Prize honorable mention in 2015. She is currently finishing her second book, "Garlands of Visions: Color, Tantra, and a Material History of Indian painting,” which demonstrates how “pothi” manuscripts transformed Indian painting into a portable media that can transfer a vast amount of visual...

Sunglim Kim

Sunglim Kim (Ph.D. 2009) is Assistant Professor of Art History and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Dartmouth College. In 2013-14 Sunglim presented her research on chaekgeori screens at the 2013 AAS annual conference in San Diego and at the Triangle East Asia Colloquium at the University of North Carolina, and her research was developed into an article, “Chaekgeori: multi-dimensional messages in late Joseon Korea,” that was published in Archives of Asian Art (Spring 2014)....