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...
Kevin G. Morales-Bernabe (2023) studies the Arts and Material Culture of the Buddhist World. His research encompasses topics related to death, dying, funerary rituals, and the afterlife in artistic traditions within tantric religions of South Asia. Kevin’s interests also include trans-regional exchange and religious interactions across Medieval South Asia and the Himalayas.
Kevin earned his BA in Interdisciplinary Studies and Art History from the University of Puerto Rico – Río Piedras campus (2019). In 2021, he completed his MPhil from the...
Madeleine Morris (2022) studies twentieth-century art of the United States with a focus on the interactions between folk art and modernism. She received her MA from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, in 2022 where she researched interwar US folk and outlier art. Madeleine received a BA in Studio Art and Italian from Vassar College in 2014 and served as the director of Davis & Langdale Company, an art gallery in New York City, from 2016 through 2021. Her research interests include cultural exchange across North American borders, nationalism and national identity, and the...
Kimberly Yu studies contemporary art with a focus on the legacies and entanglements of Japanese and U.S. imperialism. Her dissertation project examines interdisciplinary artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's engagements with earth, air, body, and spirit, tracing feminist ties in the artist's oeuvre to other artists' practices across the transpacific. Yu graduated from Dartmouth College in 2018 with degrees in art history and English. She has held curatorial positions at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American...
