Graduate Students

Michael works on the intersection of the histories and theories of eighteenth and nineteenth century painting and visual culture. He is especially interested in using sensibility, eco-aesthetics, and aesthetics of race to redefine or reimagine …

My interests range from early-Christian to early-Modern art of the Eastern Mediterranean. I explore the histories, theories, and material culture of Byzantine and post-Byzantine art and cultural exchange between the Latin West, Byzantium, and the …

Katie is a first year PhD student who studies contemporary art and photography with a focus on the way images circulate and evolve through a variety of analog and digital networks. She is interested in …

Kendra Greendeer (Ho-Chunk) is a first-year Ph.D. in Art History at the University of Wisconsin – Madison with a focus on contemporary Native American art. She earned her Bachelors in Museum Studies from the Institute …

Claire Kilgore is a PhD student studying medieval art. She received her Master’s in art history from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2017, where her thesis examined the materiality of rock crystal reliquaries belonging to …

Tania specializes in the art and architecture of early medieval Italy. Her MA thesis focused on processions and the idea of the heavenly Jerusalem through the use of colonnades in the triumphal arch mosaics of …

Alex Leme is a doctoral student in late modern and contemporary Latin American art and Visual Culture. His academic work ranges across North American, European, and Latin American Art with a focus on the conceptual …