Isabella Beroutsos (2025) studies photography and American art. Broadly interested in the role of the visual in shaping American memory and cultural sensibility, her research examines the vernacular image and its relationship to materiality, craft, and women's work in the early American West. She is also curious about how photography has influenced archival practices and other forms of record-keeping at both large, public institutions and within smaller, informal, domestic collections.
Isabella earned her undergraduate degree in the History of Art and Architecture...
Lily Callender (2023) studies the complex decisions that went into the design and decoration of early Christian spaces, and the way that religious shifts and doctrinal disputes influenced the adaptation of art and architecture in Late Antiquity. She earned her B.A. in Art and History of Art from UC Berkeley in 2022, before working as an educator at the Institute of Contemporary Art San Diego.
Her most recent research focuses on the complete sensorial experience of baptistries, and recovering how iconography, materiality, and ritual performance worked together to...
Michele D’Aurizio (2018) studies modern and contemporary art, with a focus on postwar Italy. His primary research interests include the cross-over between art and design (interior and furniture design and craft arts), the relationship between industry, technology, and art, and the political philosophy of Autonomism. He holds an MFA in Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies from the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan. Between 2014 and 2018, he worked as the editor of the contemporary art magazine Flash Art. In 2016, he co-curated the 16th Quadriennale d’Arte in Rome.
Ramón de Santiago researches the trans-Pacific transfer of visual and material culture between South Asia and Latin America in the Early Modern period, with a particular interest in pre-colonial systems of trade in both regions. His theoretical interests include questions of historiography in trans-oceanic systems and visual and material practices. His current project uses multidisciplinary methods to investigate the layers of exchange of objects, goods, and people through world oceanic systems.
Francisco del Rosario (2025) studies architecture, artifact, and image in the turning of land surface into conspicuous entity. With Manila as archive, he gives special thought to how early modern makers engaged artistic, civic, and theological views for simultaneously charging matter with appearance, pushing fellow life into their surroundings, and systematizing the nature of consciousness in Spain’s capital in the western Pacific. His interests build on research about printing and painting’s modernisms published in Impact, Southeast of Now, and Miradas. For the study of art and languages...
Christine Delia (2020) earned her B.A. in Art History from UCLA (’15) and M.A. in Islamic Art and Architecture from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst (’18). Christine researches modern art and artists working in Mexico, Morocco and the United States, with a particular focus on murals and other public art forms. Her dissertation, tentatively titled: "Mirror Effects: Fragmentation, Figuration, and Globality in Mexican, Moroccan, and US modern art, 1929-1949" examines three murals by Spanish artists dispersed around the world in the years surrounding the Spanish Civil War. The...
Elizabeth Fair (2019) studies cultural landscapes and ideas of heritage in California, especially in regard to transpacific migration, through evolving vernacular and institutional interpretations of art, architecture, and material culture. Her dissertation focuses on Chinese American architecture and architectural objects of the 19th and 20th centuries, and intersections with landscape, memory, and history, moving from Sacramento Valley 19th century temples to Angel Island to the San Francisco Chinatown YWCA. In 2024-5 she is a Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellow in American Art,...
Bellara Huang (2025) studies artistic production in Soviet and post-Soviet time and space, with interest in the digital expressive modes of photography, video art, and new media. In particular, Bellara’s research examines the multiplicitous conditions that define(d) artmaking in Central Asia: from the collapsing sensorium of Soviet empire to the histories of representing nomadic indigeneity. Bellara received a BA in Art History and Computer Science from Swarthmore College and an MA in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art; before starting PhD studies, Bellara supported...
Hannah Jasper (2024) is a Ph.D. student in the History of Art Department at the University of California, Berkeley. She studies 20th-century American visual culture, focusing on visual serial print media and its relationship to US-based resistance movements. Her research examines the relationship between aesthetics, authorship, and collective production. She is interested in studying the evident and hidden forms of self-determination and cultural production within independent publications and mass media. She holds a BFA from the School of Art Institute of Chicago. She previously served as...
Andrea Jung-An Liu (2018) studies Modern East Asian Art, with a focus on the artistic productions across the Japanese Empire. She takes a special interest in tracing the trans-national and trans-medial history of Japanese modern art while interrogating the formation of art historiography and art criticism in the first half of the twentieth century. She is also interested in critical and postcolonial theory, the politics of display, and the relationship between war, propaganda and art. Before moving to Berkeley for her PhD studies, she interned at MoMA in NYC and worked for the...
