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Mont Allen (PhD 2014) studies the art of ancient Greece and Rome, with the latter exerting the stronger pull on his heartstrings. Particular passions include mythological imagery in funerary art (especially Greek myths... [show more] -
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Bridget Alsdorf (PhD 2008) is Associate Professor of 19th Century European Art at Princeton University. Her book, Fellow Men: Fantin-Latour and the Problem of the Group in Nineteenth-Century French Painting (2013), is a study of the fraught... [show more] -
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Elise Archias is an assistant professor of art history at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has made great progress this past year on her book manuscript, The Concrete Body — Rainer,... [show more] -
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Meryl Bailey (Ph.D. 2011) is Assistant Professor of Art History at Mills College. She recently completed a lengthy research project on the Venetian seventeenth-century painter Antonio Zanchi, and is currently preparing a manuscript... [show more] -
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Randip studies early modern art with a particular emphasis on Mughal art and architecture. He received a B.A. from the University of Toronto and an M.A. from the University of Victoria. At Victoria,... [show more] -
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Cristelle Baskins (PhD 1988), is Associate Professor at Tufts University where she has taught Italian Renaissance + Early Modern Art History since 1997. Her articles on Turkmens, Syrian Christians, Armenians, and Baroque travelers... [show more] -
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Catherine Becker (Ph.D. 2006) continues as Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her book, Shifting Stones, Shaping the Past: Sculpture from the Buddhist Stupas of Andhra Pradesh... [show more] -
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M. Elizabeth (Betsy) Boone is professor of the History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture at the University of Alberta. Betsy works on nineteenth and twentieth-century art in the United States, Spain, and... [show more] -
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Kimberly Cassibry (2009, PhD; “The Allure of Monuments in the Roman Empire”) is Associate Professor of Art at Wellesley, where she was awarded the college’s Pinanski teaching prize in 2019. Her research focuses on... [show more] -
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Letha Ch’ien (PhD 2014) is an assistant professor of art history at Sonoma State University. She works on identity, ethnicity, and race in late medieval and early modern Venice. -
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Wen-Shing Chou (2011) is assistant professor of East Asian art history at Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY). She and her husband welcomed the arrival of their daughter Beatrice in September... [show more] -
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Will Coleman (PhD 2015) is Director of Collections & Exhibitions at The Olana Partnership, working alongside NY State Parks to research, preserve, and interpret the 250-acre estate and global collections of Frederic Edwin... [show more] -
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During his 2013-14 ACLS Fellowship year, Huey Copeland (’06) celebrated the publication of his first book with the University of Chicago Press, Bound to Appear: Art, Slavery, and the Site of Blackness in... [show more] -
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Sharon Corwin (Ph.D. 2001) is President and CEO of the Terra Foundation for American Art. Under her leadership, the foundation announced its new guiding mission, vision, and values in 2022 that reflect a... [show more] -
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Alexandra Courtois (2009) studies 19th century French art. Her interests encompass a variety of media, (including painting, drawing, printing processes and photography, all relevant to her dissertation research on Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec), as... [show more] -
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Sarah Louise Cowan (PhD 2019) is an assistant professor of art history at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. She studies how questions about race and gender have haunted modern and contemporary art and... [show more] -
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Matthew Culler (PhD 2020) studies early modern art with a particular interest in Italian art and art theory. He received a B.A. from Kenyon College and an M.A. from the University of North... [show more] -
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Jessica M. Dandona (Ph.D. 2010) is Associate Professor of Liberal Arts at Minneapolis College of Art and Design, where she teaches courses in 19th- and 20th-century art and visual culture. Her book, Nature... [show more] -
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On April 11, 2014, André Dombrowski (Ph.D. 2006) organized the conference "Manet: Then and Now" at the ICA, University of Pennsylvania, which many friends and colleagues associated with Berkeley attended, including the presenters... [show more] -
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Karine Douplitzky (PhD 2020) was born and raised in France and recently moved to the Bay Area. She has a non-typical profile: a Master’s degree in Engineering and an M.A. in Film Studies,... [show more] -
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Thadeus Dowad (2014) specializes in the art and architectural history of Europe and the Ottoman Empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with a special interest in global methods of analysis that address... [show more] -
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Nina Dubin is Associate Professor of Art History and an affiliate of the Department of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author of Futures & Ruins:... [show more] -
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Susan Eberhard (2013) studies the material culture of exchange between China and the maritime West. Her dissertation is tentatively titled “Chinese Export Silverwares, Foreign Coins, and Incarnations of Value: The Global Economy and... [show more] -
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Associate Professor Sarah Evans (Ph.D. 2004) teaches the history and theory of contemporary art at Northern Illinois University. Her dissertation is entitled Situating Cindy Sherman: Artistic Communities, Critical Agendas and Cultural Allegiances, 1975-1984. After... [show more] -
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Alumna Charlotte Eyerman, Executive Director of the Monterey Museum of Art, was awarded the insignia of Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters on October 3, 2014. On behalf of the French... [show more] -
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E. C. Feiss (2015) is a critic and PhD candidate studying the history and theory of Modern and Contemporary art, specifically western socially and politically engaged art practices that articulate programs for justice... [show more] -
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Elizabeth Ferrell (PhD 2012) is Assistant Professor of Art History at Arcadia University. -
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Jez Flores García (PhD 2020) studys contemporary art with a particular interest in Chicano art. She wrote her dissertation on the role of various types of camp, via queer culture, rasquache, and glam... [show more] -
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After five years at TCU in Fort Worth, Amy Freund (2005) moved down the road to Dallas to begin a new job in the art history department at SMU. Her first book, Portraiture... [show more] -
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Carl is spending 2013-14 on a Japan Foundation Fellowship in Nara, Japan. While there he will be conducting research for his dissertation at the Nara National Institute for Cultural Properties and Archaeological Institute... [show more] -
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Carma Gorman, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the School of Design and Creative Technologies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a member of the College Art Association’s (CAA) board... [show more] -
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Robin Adèle Greeley (PhD, 1998) teaches at the University of Connecticut, where she focuses on art and politics in modern and contemporary Latin America. She is Affiliate Faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of... [show more] -
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Diana Greenwold (Ph.D., 2016) is the Associate Curator of American Art at the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine. Her dissertation, “Crafting New Citizens: Art and Handicraft in New York and Boston... [show more] -
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Andrew Griebeler (2010) studies medieval and Byzantine art with Diliana Angelova and Beate Fricke. Andrew graduated with a B.A. in art history and biology at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington.... [show more] -
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Anthony (Ph.D. 2008) is associate professor of art history at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Warhol’s Working Class: Pop Art and Egalitarianism (University of Chicago Press, 2017). His essays... [show more] -
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Sarah Hamill (PhD, 2008; dissertation title “David Smith in Two Dimensions: Photography, Sculpture, and Space”) is Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Sarah Lawrence College (formerly Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary... [show more] -
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Grace Harpster (PhD 2018) is assistant professor at Georgia State University in Atlanta. She studies the relationship between art and Catholic reform in early modern Italy and its wider missionary networks. Her first... [show more] -
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Joan Hart (Ph.D 1981) is currently an independent scholar and expert in antique textiles of Kashmir and France. -
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Sharon Hecker (BA cum laude Renaissance Studies, Yale University, MA History of Art 1994, Ph.D. 1999), specializes in modern and contemporary Italian Art. A leading expert on Medardo Rosso, she has authored over... [show more] -
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This past year, Samantha Henneberry (2008) completed museum study and fieldwork in Greece for her dissertation on Lakonian warrior-hoplite iconography and the role of diverse craft traditions in shaping warrior identity and social... [show more] -
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Stephanie M. Hohlios specializes in modern and contemporary art from Japan. Her research interests include performance (broadly defined); gender, sexuality, and the body; labor identity and proletarian art; regionalism; transnational identity; trauma, affect,... [show more] -
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Aaron M. Hyman (PhD 2017) is assistant professor in the Department of the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University. His first book, Rubens in Repeat: The Logic of the Copy n Colonial... [show more] -
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Sonal Khullar (Ph.D. 2009) has been appointed W. Norman Brown Associate Professor of South Asian Studies in the History of Art Department at the University of Pennsylvania effective July 1, 2020. She is... [show more] -
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Sunglim Kim (Ph.D. 2009) is Assistant Professor of Art History and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Dartmouth College. In 2013-14 Sunglim presented her research on chaekgeori screens at the 2013 AAS annual... [show more] -
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Jinah Kim (PhD 2006) is Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of History of Art & Architecture at Harvard University. Her first book, Receptacle of the Sacred: Illustrated Manuscripts and the Buddhist Book Cult in... [show more] -
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After finishing her PhD in 2003 (co-advised by Anne Wagner and TJ Clark), Sabine Kriebel worked for a year at the National Gallery in Washington DC on the groundbreaking Dada exhibition, before taking... [show more] -
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Katherine Kuenzli (2002) is Professor of Art History at Wesleyan University. Her research focuses on European modernism 1880-1940 and has resulted in two books, The Nabis and Intimate Modernism: Painting and the Decorative at... [show more] -
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Grace Kuipers studies 20th century art of the Americas. Her dissertation, entitled Mineral Modernism: The Mexican Subsoil and the Remapping of American Form in the 1930s theorizes an aesthetics of extraction in the... [show more] -
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Namiko Kunimoto is an Associate Professor at The Ohio State University. She is a specialist in modern and contemporary Japanese art, with research interests in gender, race, urbanization, photography, visual culture, performance art,... [show more] -
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Rosaline is a PhD candidate specializing in 20th century Chinese and Tibetan art. Her dissertation focuses on visual cultures and the codification of body standards and behavior as it pertains to the process... [show more] -
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Christopher Lakey is Assistant Professor of Medieval Art at Johns Hopkins University. His first book, Sculptural Seeing: Relief, Optics, and the Rise of Perspective in Medieval Italy, was awarded a Millard Meiss Publication... [show more] -
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Evelyn Lincoln (PhD 1994) is Professor of the History of Art & Architecture and Italian Studies at Brown University, where she teaches the history of early modern European art and architecture, specializing in... [show more] -
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Josie Lopez (2009) is currently conducting research and writing her dissertation in New Mexico with the support of the SMU Eleanor Tufts Fellowship. Her dissertation examines nineteenth-century political satire and caricature in the... [show more] -
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J. Vanessa Lyon (2011) is Associate Professor of Art History at Bennington College where she Directs the Visual Arts Lecture Series. Lyon’s first book Figuring Faith and Female Power in the Art of Rubens was... [show more] -
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William H. Ma (2008) is writing a dissertation on the art and craft workshops at the French Jesuit Orphanage Tushanwan in Shanghai in the early twentieth century. His main areas of interest include... [show more] -
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Daniel Marcus is Associate Curator at the Wexner Center for the Arts at the Ohio State University, where he is also a lecturer in the Department of History of Art. Prior to this... [show more] -
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Laure Marest-Caffey (Ph.D. 2017) is the Cornelius and Emily Vermeule Assistant Curator of Greek and Roman Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She oversees with her colleagues one of the largest... [show more] -
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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... [show more] -
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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... [show more] -
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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... [show more] -
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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... [show more] -
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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... [show more] -
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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... [show more] -
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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... [show more] -
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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,... [show more] -
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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... [show more] -
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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... [show more] -
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Bibiana Obler (Ph.D. 2006) is associate professor of art history at George Washington University, where she has taught since 2008. Her first book, Intimate Collaborations: Kandinsky and Münter, Arp and Taeuber (Yale University... [show more] -
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Shalon Parker (2003) is professor of art history at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, where she teaches courses on 19th-20th c. art. Her book, Painting the Prehistoric Body in Late Nineteenth-Century France, was published... [show more] -
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Jessica Lee Patterson (2009) is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of San Diego, where she teaches courses that explore various aspects of Asian and modern art. Her research focuses on... [show more] -
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Stephanie Pearson (2007) studies ancient Roman art, with a focus on wall painting. Her research concerns cross-cultural interactions, concepts of luxury and exoticism, and artistic technique. Museums are another key theme in her... [show more] -
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Kailani Polzak (2008) is a Ph.D. candidate working on British, French, and Russian voyages to the Pacific and the picturing of human difference in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She spent the past... [show more] -
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Todd Presner just published a new book, HyperCities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities (Harvard University Press, 2014), with colleagues David Shepard and Yoh Kawano. A digital platform transmogrified into a book, it... [show more] -
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Laura’s (2008) field is Modern and Contemporary Art with a Designated Emphasis in Film. This past spring she taught a course on installation art, and last summer her article, "Anthony McCall: The Long Shadow... [show more] -
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Mark Rosen’s book, The Mapping of Power in Renaissance Italy, was published by Cambridge University Press in late 2014. He is Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Dallas and part of... [show more] -
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Sasha grew up in Berkeley and Switzerland. He left the Bay Area in the late 90s to study art history and art practice on the East Coast and in Germany, where he worked... [show more] -
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Miriam Said (2011) earned her B.A. in art history from Syracuse University in 2009, and focuses on art of the ancient near east and the early Greek period. Her research interests include art... [show more] -
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Jenny Sakai completed her dissertation, entitled Undoing Architecture: Temporalities of Painted Space in Early Modern Amsterdam, and was hooded at the spring 2014 commencement and is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History... [show more] -
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Alexa Sand is Professor of Art History and Associate Vice President of Research/Associate Dean of Graduate Studies at Utah State University, where she has been on the faculty since 2004. She is a... [show more] -
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Sandra Sardjono (2009) studies the art and visual culture of Southeast Asia, with a particular focus on Indonesia. She is currently writing a dissertation on the depictions of textiles in Java from the... [show more] -
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Ph.D. 2005 (Dept. of History of Art) Michael Schreyach is Associate Professor of Art History at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. He is the author of Pollock’s Modernism (2017). -
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Andrew Sears (2012) studies medieval art and architecture with Beate Fricke. He received his B.A. in Art History from Emory University. His research focuses on relics, reliquaries, and saints’ cults, with a particular... [show more] -
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Joshua Shannon is Professor of contemporary art history and theory in the Department of Art History & Archaeology at the University of Maryland. He is the author of The Recording Machine: Art and Fact during... [show more] -
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PhD 1994. Jennifer L. Shaw is author of Exist Otherwise: The Life and Work of Claude Cahun, Reaktion Books, London, 2017; Reading Claude Cahun’s Disavowals, Routledge, 2013; and Dream States: Puvis de Chavannes,... [show more] -
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Emma Silverman specializes in Modern and Contemporary American art with a designated emphasis in Women, Gender and Sexuality. Emma is writing her dissertation on the Watts Towers in Los Angeles. More broadly, her... [show more] -
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Jessica Stair (PhD 2018) specializes in the visual culture of colonial Latin America. She was co-advised by Todd Olson and Lisa Trever. Her dissertation “Indigenous Literacies in the Techialoyan Manuscripts of New Spain” considers a corpus... [show more] -
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Professor Stein is the author of a recent book The Hegemony of Heritage: Ritual and the Record in Stone (open access and print paperback from UC Press 2018; and, hardcover art book from Mapin 2019).... [show more] -
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Jessica is a PhD candidate specializing in early sixteenth-century Netherlandish art and cultural exchange. Supervised by Professors Elizabeth Honig, Todd Olson, and Darcy Grigsby, her dissertation, Rules of Engagement: Art, Commerce, and Diplomacy... [show more] -
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Shivani Sud (2013) is a PhD student in the History of Art Department at UC Berkeley. She received a B.A. in Art History from UCLA in 2012. Shivani studies the art and visual... [show more] -
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Uranchimeg (Orna) Tsultem (Ph.D. 2009) taught courses on contemporary art and Buddhist art at the Department of Art History at the National University of Mongolia in fall 2013 as an Associate Professor and... [show more] -
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Ty Vanover (2017) studies 19th- and early 20th-century art, specializing in Central European visual culture, theories of sexuality, and histories of science and medicine. His dissertation, “Graphic Impulses: Drawing, Sexuality, and Science in... [show more] -
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Marcus Verhagen (PhD 1994, advised by Carol Armstrong and T.J. Clark) wrote his doctoral thesis on late nineteenth-century French art and mass culture. Working primarily on contemporary art in the years since 2002, he... [show more] -
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Karl Whittington (Ph.D. 2010) is Associate Professor of History of Art at The Ohio State University, where he has been teaching medieval art history since 2010. His essays have appeared in Gesta, Studies in... [show more] -
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Barbara Wisch’s (PhD 1985) A Companion to Early Modern Rome, 1492–1692, edited by Pamela M. Jones, Barbara Wisch, and Simon Ditchfield, Brill’s Companions to European History 17 (Leiden: Brill, 2019), was chosen as... [show more] -
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Elaine Y. Yau (PhD 2015) recently completed an appointment as the Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in 2020. During her term, she co-curated “Rosie... [show more] -
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Antonia Young (2009) specializes in ancient Roman art, with an emphasis on Roman painting. She received her B.A. in Classical Civilizations from Wellesley College and her M.A. in Classics from U.C. Berkeley. As... [show more] -
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Marnin Young (PhD 2005) is Associate Professor and Chair of Art History at Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University. He is the author of Realism in the Age of Impressionism: Painting and the Politics... [show more] -
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Patricia J. Yu is a doctoral candidate studying Chinese art with Professor Patricia Berger. Her dissertation addresses the Qing imperial garden of the Yuanming Yuan (Garden of Perfect Brightness) and the way in... [show more]
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