Gabriel Chazan (Ph.D. Student) co-organized the event “Ancestors and the Archive” with The Magnum Foundation’s Counter-Histories Initiative, a virtual panel discussion about the ethics and future of institutional archives in light of ongoing decolonization debates. Bringing together academics, …
Graduate Students
Student Spotlight | Sara Champlin Defends Dissertation
Dr. Sara Champlin (Ph.D., 2022) has defended her doctoral dissertation “Transformation and Re-Use of Public Baths in Western Asia Minor, 400–700 A.D.” She was advised by Professor Nicholas Cahill. Congratulations Dr. Champlin!!!
Student Spotlight | “Kafkaesque Modernity” by Ahmed Abdelazim
Ph.D. Candidate Ahmed Abdelazim contributed a chapter to the edited volume on Cairo’s Urban modernity. The chapter titled “Kafkaesque Modernity: Cairo in the 1980s and the Middle-Class housing crisis” examines the impact of neoliberal urbanization on middle-class …
Student Spotlight | Michael Feinberg Awarded Mayers Fellowship
Michael Feinberg (Ph.D. Candidate) has been awarded with a Mayers Fellowship at the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. At the Huntington, Michael will work on their dissertation chapter that focuses on how the landscape imagery …
Student Spotlight | Kendra Greendeer Inducted Into Bouchet Honor Society
Kendra Greendeer (Ph.D. Candidate) was inducted into the Bouchet Honor Society last week as one of five inductees for the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Kendra was the only inductee from the arts and humanities. Learn more here.
Student Spotlight | Ph.D. Candidate Tania Kolarik at the Cleveland Museum of Art
On March 24th, Tania Kolarik (Ph.D. Candidate) was able to examine twelve medieval textiles held within the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland, Ohio. The textiles ranged from the year 1000 to 1400 and were …
Student Spotlight | Marie-Agathe Simonetti to Present at the Musée du Quai Branly
Marie-Agathe Simonetti (Ph.D. Candidate) is going to present her research on Vietnamese photography at the Musée du Quai Branly on May 4th, 2022. Her talk, based on the second chapter of her dissertation, demonstrates the link between …
Student Spotlight | Ehsan Behbahani-Nia Publishes Paper in the Journal of Ancient Architecture
Ph.D. Student, Ehsan Behbahani-Nia has published his paper on the monumental terrace of Pasargadae in the peer-reviewed Journal of Ancient Architecture. His article, entitled “Tall-i Takht: New Evidence on the Construction of Pasargadae’s Terrace,” addresses the organization of labor …
DOB’22 | Thank You to Michael Feinberg for Donating In Honor of Prof. Casid!
DOB’22 Thank you to Michael Feinberg who donated in honor of Professor Jill Casid!!! We hope you and Prof. Jill Casid enjoy this art historical etching by a badger! Frances Badger, “Asheville Nouveau,” 1929. Art …
Student Spotlight | Claire Kilgore Presents at 21st Vagantes Conference
Ph.D. Candidate Claire Kilgore presented her paper “Seeing, Tasting, & Touching: Sensing the Holy Pregnant Body in the Later Middle Ages” at the 21st Annual Vagantes Conference hosted by Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Claire also presided over …