Brishti Modak (2023) studies the intersections between public sculpture, reception, and decolonization in twentieth-century India. Her research more broadly also looks into art institutional histories, materiality, and feminist art practice.
She has a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy from Presidency University (Kolkata) and a Masters' in Art History from Jamia Millia Islamia (New Delhi). In 2021, she earned her M.Phil. degree from the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta in 2019. Since then, she has worked at Critical...
Atineh Movsesian (2022) specializes in Medieval Armenian Art and Architecture. Her research concerns the interactions across medieval Armenia, Byzantium, and the Islamic worlds. She aims to bring awareness to the connected and global dimensions of Armenian art and architecture.
Atineh earned her BA in Art History from the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (2019), with minors in English and French. Her undergraduate thesis, “The Medieval City of Ani: Above and Underground,” offered initial art historical examination of the Ani caves and earned an outstanding research...
Saif Radi studies modern and contemporary art of the Arab world. His research interests include the visual articulations of gender and sexuality, national and transnational identities, and architecture and urbanism. Saif received his BA in Art History and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2018, and previously worked at the Hammer Museum and Frieze Los Angeles art fair.
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...
