Piper Cruze Prolago (2024) studies modern art in the Philippines in the early 20th century. Her research engages the Philippines in transnational contexts, examining its role in global networks of exchange and migration. She is particularly interested in the role that visual art plays in negotiating the formation of Philippine national identity across multiethnic communities.
After earning undergraduate degrees in Art History and Anthropology from the University of Tulsa, Piper completed her MA in Art History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has previously worked...
Krishna Shekhawat (2022) studies art history at the intersection of landscapes and water architecture in early modern Thar Desert, India- video link. The research builds on her tenure as Assistant Curator at Mehrangarh Fort Museum and undergraduate innovation project at Miranda House, University of Delhi. She is keen to engage sky, surface and subterranean as her visual archive. A member of the Association of Art Museum Curators, New York, she was also a fellow at their Professional Alliance for...
Zachary Smithline (2022) studies the art and thought of medieval Europe, particularly as they illuminate the general nature of depiction; and the history of art history, especially as it intersects with the history of science and the history of philosophical aesthetics.
Two ongoing projects explore these interests. The first applies 3D visualization techniques to a Gothic sculptural program, the Princes’ Portal and Rider of Bamberg Cathedral, which responds in subtle ways to changes in standpoint and lighting. Part modern experiment and part medieval experimentum (often...
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...
