Alumni

Elizabeth McFadden

Elizabeth McFadden (Ph.D. 2020) specializes in early modern fashion and dress. She wrote her dissertation on fur clothing in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England and Holland. In the past she has interned at The Museum at FIT and the V&A. She earned her MA from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London where she was recently a Kress Fellow. She currently resides in Paris.

Cristin McKnight Sethi

Cristin McKnight Sethi (Ph.D., 2015) is Assistant Professor of Art History at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at George Washington University where she teaches a variety of courses on visual and material culture from South and Southeast Asia. She is completing a book on the production, circulation, and display of embroidered textiles in pre- and post-Partition Punjab.

Ara H. Merjian

Ara H. Merjian is Associate Professor of Italian Studies and an affiliate of the Institute of Fine Arts and the Department of Art History, New York University. He is the author of Giorgio de Chirico and the Metaphysical City: Nietzsche, Paris, Modernism (Yale University Press, 2014). Forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press in 2019, and funded by a Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation Art Writers Grant, is the new volume, Against the Avant-Garde: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Contemporary Art and Neocapitalism, 1960-1975. He is at work on a new book titled "The Mimesis...

Kappy Mintie

Katherine "Kappy" Mintie finished her PhD in 2017. Her dissertation is entitled "Rights and Reproductions?: Commercial Photography and Copyright Law in the United States, 1884-1909." For 2017-19, she will serve as the Postdoctoral Scholar in American Art History at DePauw University.

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Emily Moore

Emily Moore is associate professor of art history at CSU, where she teaches courses in Native American and American art history. She is also Associate Curator of North American Art at the Gregory Allicar Museum at CSU. Raised in Ketchikan, Alaska, Emily continues to work with Lingít, Haida, and Tmʼsyen Indigenous communities to document historic and contemporary arts from the Northwest Coast. She is the author of Proud Raven, Panting Wolf: Carving Alaskaʼs New Deal Totem Parks (University of Washington Press, 2018) and numerous articles supported by the National Endowment for the...

Verónica Muñoz-Nájar Luque

Verónica Muñoz-Nájar studies colonial Latin American art with a focus on the visual and material culture of the Viceroyalty of Peru. Her interests include the transatlantic circulation of objects, the biopolitics of colonial tropicalism during the Bourbon era, and early modern print culture. Verónica’s dissertation explores the understudied visual culture of the lower Amazon basin under missionary and governmental dominion during the eighteenth century. She is particularly interested in the unorthodox measures of control that were implemented in the region in accordance with European...

Julian Myers-Szupinska

Julian Myers-Szupinska (Ph.D. 2006) is Associate Professor of Curatorial Practice at California College of the Arts. He celebrated the tenth anniversary of that program, which he helped to found in 2003. His essays have appeared in magazines, journals and catalogues for Keith Haring: The Political Line, When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, and in Sterling Ruby: Soft Work. An essay considering transformations in the political economy of space in the wake of Henri Lefebvre’s The Production of Space, will appear...

Richard Neer

Richard Neer (PhD 1998) has been at the University of Chicago since 1999, where he is now Barbara E. and Richard J. Franke Distinguished Service Professor in Art History, Cinema & Media Studies, and the College and incoming Director of the Franke Institute for the Humanities. From 2010 to 2018 he was Executive Editor of Critical Inquiry, where he continues to serve as co-editor. Davidson and His Interlocutors, co-edited with Daniele Lorenzini, will appear in December 2018. Another edited volume, Conditions of Visibility...

Jeanne Nuechterlein

Jeanne Nuechterlein (PhD 2000, advised by Elizabeth Honig and Joseph Koerner) is currently a Reader at University of York. In 2019-20 she saw through the final stages of her book Hans Holbein: The Artist in a Changing World, which (after a slight covid delay) has been published by Reaktion Books in September 2020. Professor Emerita Svetlana Alpers has published a notice of it for...

Oliver O'Donnell

Oliver O’Donnell’s (PhD, 2016) first book, Meyer Schapiro’s Critical Debates, which was developed out of his Berkeley PhD dissertation, appeared with Penn State Press in October 2019 and was awarded the Willibald Sauerländer Award from the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich. Over the past year he also placed an article in “The Art Bulletin” and began teaching at the Courtauld, where he leads his own MA special option. Ollie maintains his research appointment at the Warburg and continues to develop and present research related to his new book, now...