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Joseph Albanese (2018) studies Latin-American religious images and their connections to fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Northern European artworks. His dissertation, which is supervised jointly by Elizabeth Honig and Todd Olson, will examine Marian Statue... [show more] -
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Mathilde Andrews (2017) studies nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American art. Her research interests include the history of science as it pertains to gender and race, and the picturing of these debates in visual... [show more] -
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Jess Bailey studies Medieval art with Beate Fricke and Elizabeth Honig. Her work addresses the premodern art history of gunpowder, considering how shifts in imaging technologies of violence impacted the social construction of... [show more] -
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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... [show more] -
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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... [show more] -
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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... [show more] -
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Elizabeth Fair studies the concept of cultural heritage in California and how museums, monuments, murals, and other elements of public visual and material culture interact with that concept, especially in regard to transpacific... [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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Lesdi C. Goussen Robleto is a second year Ph.D. student in the History of Art Department at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work focuses on the historical and contemporary conditions of Central... [show more] -
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Claire Ittner studies twentieth-century modernisms, with an emphasis on the arts of America and the African diaspora. Her research interests include the spaces of creation and display, race and national identity, questions of... [show more] -
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Vanessa Jackson (2019) studies 18th and 19th century European art, specifically art created in Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary France. She earned a double B.A. in the History of Art and French from UC Berkeley... [show more] -
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Emily Kang (2022) studies early American visual culture, with a particular focus on the built environment and thematic interests in critical race theory, class, and nation-building. Her research focuses especially on 18th century... [show more] -
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Riad Kherdeen (2016) studies global modern art and architecture, with a focus on the region of West Asia/Middle East and North Africa (MENA). His dissertation project, titled “Spectral Modernisms: Decolonial Aesthetics and the... [show more] -
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Kristen Kido (2014) specializes in comparativism, cultural heritage and the law, with a particular emphasis on ancient art in the contemporary world. Her dissertation focuses on the intersection between the cultural and legal... [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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Rebecca Levitan (2015) studies the art and architecture of the ancient Mediterranean world. Her research centers around Greek sculpture, as well as the reception of classical antiquity in Europe and the United States.... [show more] -
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Mary Lewine works on objects deposited into Buddhist statues in East Asia, with a particular focus on stamped and printed replications of Buddha images. She is interested in conceptions of sacred presence, iconicity,... [show more] -
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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... [show more] -
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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... [show more] -
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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... [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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Tausif Noor studies global modern and contemporary art with a focus on South Asia and its histories of decolonization. He is interested in the intersections of art and politics, particularly with regard to... [show more] -
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Angela (2018) studies modern and contemporary Latinx and Latin American printmaking and paper communities. Her research focuses on post-war artist networks that explore the conceptual underpinnings of paper to engage in transnational dialogues... [show more] -
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Ariana Pemberton (2018) studies Art and Material History of Medieval South Asia and the Indian Ocean World. Her interests include trans-regional exchanges across the Indian Ocean, eco-conscious histories of non-human animals and the... [show more] -
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Yessica Porras (2015) is a first-year PhD student focusing on Colonial Latin American art. After years away from her native country of Colombia, she developed an interest in art history as a way... [show more] -
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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... [show more] -
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Delphine Sims studies the history of photography in the Americas. She earned a B.A. in Art History and African American Studies from the University of Southern California in 2013. Her research focuses on... [show more] -
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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... [show more] -
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Jon Soriano (2012) studies the arts of East and Central Asia, with a particular interest in Buddhist concepts of space and script during the Qing Dynasty. Jon has an MA in Asian studies... [show more] -
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“Christine Theunissen (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). Her research areas include Early Modern and Modern... [show more] -
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Joel Thielen studies visual cultures of Japan from an ecocritical perspective. He received his bachelor’s degree in biology from Colorado College and spent three years working in Japan before joining the Berkeley History... [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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Kimberly Yu studies contemporary art with a focus on how new media visualize current conditions of capitalism and geopolitical struggles in the transpacific. Her research interests include institutional critique, critical race theory, queer... [show more]
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