Graduate Students

Ph.D. Candidates Abby Armstrong Check, Claire Kilgore, and Tania Kolarik are co-curating a forthcoming exhibition on American Catholic collecting practices at the Haggerty Museum of Art on the campus of Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI. The show, which will take place …

Ph.D. Candidate Claire Kilgore was recently profiled by the UW–Madison Graduate School as a WARF-Funded graduate student. You can read the full write-up about Claire’s current research and forthcoming projects here.

Laura Hoekstra (Ph.D. Candidate) is beginning a new position with the Wisconsin Historical Society as the Architectural Historian for the Museum Archaeology Program (MAP). MAP engages in the identification and preservation of Wisconsin’s cultural resources and …

While conducting dissertation research in Germany this summer, Claire Kilgore (Ph.D. Candidate) visited the exhibition Das Mittelalter—die Kunst des 15. Jahrhunderts (The Middle Ages—The Art of the 15th Century) at the Germanisches National Museum in Nuremberg. In addition to …

Ph.D. Candidate Tirumular (Drew) Narayanan‘s article, “‘Why is He Indian:’ Missed Opportunities for Discussing Race in David Lowery’s The Green Knight (2021),” has been published in a special issue of Arthuriana. Drew discusses that despite having cast Dev Patel …

Ph.D. Candidates Tania Kolarik and Claire Kilgore will each be presenting papers at the 59th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in May 2024. Both of their papers will incorporate their textile research that they completed this …

Ph.D. candidate Ahmed Abdelazim has concluded a research project sponsored by UNESCO and the American University in Cairo architectural archives. Ahmed examined all the available documents, drawings, photographs, audio tapes, notes, and papers at the AUC …

Ph.D. Candidate Tania Kolarik will be presenting part of her dissertation research, “Textility: A New Textile Centric Art Historical Methodology,” during a roundtable session at the 36th Congrès du Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art (CIHA) in Lyon, France. …

Ph.D. Candidates (from top left) Abby Armstrong Check, Tania Kolarik, and Claire Kilgore will be attending the 99th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America conference at the University of Notre Dame in March 2024. Kolarik and Armstrong …