Corrine Annalisa Scala

PhD Student

Corinne Annalisa Scala (Corrina) is a Ph.D. student specializing in Italian Early Modern art, with a focus on uncovering the stories of women artists from the Italian Renaissance. She completed her BA degrees in Art History and International Studies…

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Flavia Barbarini

PhD Student

Flavia Barbarini is a Ph.D. candidate specializing in early modern art, drawings, and prints. Her research interests include collecting and display, museology, art markets, fresco decorations, and ephemera. Her doctoral dissertation examines the…

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Molly Bernhard

PhD Student

Molly Bernhard is a PhD candidate specializing in Renaissance art and the History of Collecting. Her dissertation “Plundering the Peninsula: Conquest and Collecting in Italy during the Early Modern Era (1494-1815), focuses on the History of…

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Marian Berthoud

PhD Student

Marian Berthoud (she/her/hers) is a Ph.D. candidate currently researching Baroque architecture and urban planning in southern Italy, Portugal, and the Philippines for her dissertation titled “Ruined and Rebuilt: Constructing the Ideal Baroque City…

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Jessica Braum

PhD Student

Jessica Braum is a Ph.D. candidate whose research encompasses post-war developments in the art of Southeast and East Asia, Europe, and the Americas, with particular attention to the intersections of art, culture, and globalization, and a focus on…

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Hatice Cam

PhD Student

Hatice Koroglu Cam (she/her) is a first-year PhD student focusing on Italian Renaissance art. For three years, she studied Journalism and Art History at Istanbul University in Turkey. Hatice graduated summa cum laude from Rutgers University,…

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Julia Carita

MA Student

Julia Carita (she/her) is a first-year MA student in art history. She is interested in art that serves the counterculture, particularly the artwork and ephemera created by American punk and queer communities from the 1960s to the present. Julia…

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David Carnish

PhD Student

David Carnish is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Italian Renaissance studies. His interests are in art, religion and culture as expressed in the genre of sacred images. David works full time for Penn State Health where he serves as the Manager of…

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Finley Cowlishaw

PhD Student

Finley Cowlishaw (they/he) specializes in global contemporary and modern art. Their current research assesses the use of drag assemblages as a method of queer futurity and tool for deconstructing false dichotomies, arbitrary categorizations and…

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Natalie Cruz

PhD Student

Natalie Cruz (she/her) is a first year PhD Art History student specializing in global modern and contemporary art. Her past studies have contended with generational and personal memory, historically absent or destroyed archives, language…

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Camila Damico Medina

PhD Student

With a broad specialty in Latin American modern and contemporary art history, Camila Damico Medina (she/they)'s research focuses on the entanglements between art and technology, embodiment discourses, projects of modernity, and abstraction…

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María de Lourdes Mariño

PhD Student

María de Lourdes Mariño is an independent researcher and curator currently a Ph.D. candidate at Temple University, where she specializes in Modern and Contemporary Art from Latin America and the Caribbean, including its diaspora. Her scholarship…

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Danielle Degon Rhodes

MA Student

Danielle Degon Rhodes (she/her) is pursuing an MA in Art History with a concentration in arts management. She is an artist, curator, and arts administrator dedicated to improving public access to art and supporting contemporary artists in the…

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Emily Dugan

PhD Student

Emily Dugan (she/her) is a PhD student who specializes in Early Modern Art in England with a focus on Northern artists working for the court during the 17th century. She has a particular interest in portraiture, and looks to explore the implications…

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Ivy D’Agostino

MA Student

Ivy D’Agostino is a second year master’s student on the research track. She researches art, objects, and architecture from the Early Modern period and focuses specifically on themes of embodied spirituality, materiality, cross-cultural collision,…

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Nicole Emser

PhD Student

Nicole Emser (she/her) is a PhD candidate studying the modern and contemporary art of the Caribbean and its diasporas. Her dissertation traces the systematic practices of ordering Caribbean land—from the colonial to the present—mapping the…

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Miray Eroglu

PhD Student

Miray Eroglu is a PhD student concentrating on Ottoman art and architecture and the Islamic world broadly. Her research interests span the 18th to 20th centuries, exploring urbanity, sites of sociability, performance, affect, gender, and sexuality,…

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Cecelia Heintzelman

MA Student

Cecelia Heintzelman (she/they) is a first-year Art History MA student. They graduated magna cum laude with a BA in Ancient History and History of Art from the University of Pennsylvania in 2022. She is also the Collections Manager at the LaSalle…

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Emma Holter

PhD Student

Emma P. Holter is a Ph.D. candidate and University Fellow specializing in the art of Renaissance Italy. Her dissertation topic explores drawing and underdrawing practices, and the production of monochromatic paintings in fifteenth- and sixteenth…

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Kyra Jackson

MA Student

Kyra Jackson is a first-year MA student in Art History. They hold a Bachelor of Fine Arts concentrated in Ceramics with a minor in Art History from Louisiana State University in 2022. Their research centers Afro-Diasporic Art; the commonalities and…

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Merve Koksal

PhD Student

Merve Koksal is a PhD student and University Fellow focusing on the intersections of modern art and culture with urban space, migration, cross-cultural exchange, and exile in late Ottoman Istanbul, particularly during the Allied occupation (1918…

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Piper Kozar-Meyes

MA Student

Piper Kozar-Meyers (she/they) is a first year MA student in art history with a focus in early Roman Imperial arts. She plans to mainly focus on numismatics, looking into the use of portraiture and symbolism as propaganda in the Roman…

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Ari Lipkis

PhD Student

Ari Lipkis (he/him/his) focuses on Northern Italian architecture from Leon Battista Alberti to Vincenzo Scamozzi, from built works to drawings to theoretical treatises and printed matter. Ari’s research has been on the role of the fantastic or  …

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Li Machado

PhD Student

Li Machado (they/he/she) is a PhD candidate specializing in Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Latinx Art. With a research emphasis on memory and memorials, presence, and absence, Li's work builds on recent histories of queer art, queer…

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Liam Maher

PhD Student

Liam Maher (he/him) is a PhD candidate and Temple University fellow in art history. He received his M.A. in art history from the University of Oregon and his B.A. with honors in art history and political science from the University of Notre Dame. He…

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Molly Mapstone

PhD Student

Molly Mapstone (she/her/hers) is a Ph.D. Candidate studying American art. Her dissertation, “Mediating Vision and Negotiating Narratives: Contemporary U.S. Installation Art and Its Expanding Publics, 1966–2019,” investigates key works of…

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Ana Matisse Donefer-Hickie

PhD Student

Ana Matisse Donefer-Hickie (they/them) is a PhD student and University Fellow who specializes in the decorative arts of early modern northern Europe, with research interests in materiality and the embodied knowledge of artisans making and working…

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Martina Merlo

PhD Student

Martina Merlo specializes in modern and contemporary art, with an intrinsically interdisciplinary approach to their research focus in the visual, sonic, spatial, material and performance cultures of contemporary “house-system” ballroom in the United…

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Ryan Mitchell

PhD Student

Ryan is a fourth-year doctoral student specializing in Islamic art and architectural history. His research focuses on visual, literary and architectural cultures of the eastern Mediterranean in the long nineteenth century with an emphasis on the…

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Joanna Platt

PhD Student

Joanna Platt is A PhD student specializing in modern and contemporary art history. Her primary interests are the representation of labor and the economics of art and production, especially regarding issues of class and social status. Joanna is…

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Ali Printz

PhD Student

Ali Printz is a scholar, painter and interdisciplinary artist, and curator who studies Modern and Contemporary Appalachian art. Her interests lie in ecocriticism, the conjuncture of fine art and craft, and marginalized histories in American Art. She…

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Noah Randolph

PhD Student

Noah Randolph is a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University. His research focuses on the intersections of monuments and public art with issues of memory, race, and politics. Since 2019, Noah has…

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Rachael Reynolds

PhD Student

Rachael Reynolds (she/her) specializes in the history of photography and other works on paper. Her dissertation focuses on the performativity of photographic processes from capture to darkroom through analysis of work by Anne Brigman, Nell Dorr,…

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Tyler Rockey

PhD Student

Tyler Rockey is studying the Italian Renaissance and its various engagements with a broad spectrum of historical periods and artistic materials. His primary research pursuits are the labile conceptions of temporality and originality in works “after…

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Brittany Rubin

PhD Student

Brittany Rubin (she/her) studies print culture and the history of the erotic body in the Early Modern Netherlands. Prior to her matriculation, she worked at the Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, where she first served as a Kress Fellow…

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Emily Schollenberger

PhD Student

Emily Schollenberger (she/her) is a PhD candidate specializing in Modern and Contemporary Art of the Atlantic World, with a focus in the history and theory of photography. Her dissertation considers contemporary artists’ reimagining of landscape…

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Alexandra Schoolman

PhD Student

Alexandra is a fourth-year PhD candidate specializing in Latin American art of the 20th and 21st centuries. Her research interests include conceptualism, marxism, avant-gardism, and social practice, particularly as they address the intersection of…

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Fernanda Senger

PhD Student

Fernanda Senger (she/her) is a first-year PhD student in the field of Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art, with a focus on modernist printmaking in Brazil and its relation to hemispheric and transatlantic networks in the first half of the…

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Jackie Streker

PhD Student

Jackie Streker (she/they) is a PhD student studying the history of prints and printmaking and specializing in the literal and symbolic growth of the medium to a monumental scale during the Holy Roman Empire. They received degrees in Art History from…

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Jesse Sullivan

PhD Student

Jesse Rhianyu Sullivan (she/her) is an art history PhD candidate with an artist’s background. Her methodology prioritizes close looking, merging artistic, technological, and scientific approaches, while working alongside professional artists and…

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Srđan Tunić

PhD Student

Srđan Tunić specializes in contemporary art, with a focus on public art (graffiti, street art and murals) and activism, through the lens of transcultural and queer theories, implementing horizontal art history approach. He graduated from UC Davis …

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Megan Voeller

PhD Student

Megan Voeller (they/them) is an educator, curator and writer whose work focuses on critical intersections of contemporary art and health. Their research explores how contemporary artists engage with concepts and practices of health, healing, and…

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Rachel Vorsanger

PhD Student

Rachel Vorsanger studies modern art from Europe and the United States. Her research examines the role of gender and displacement in the works of women abstract artists with a focus on Madrid, Barcelona, and New York City as sites of international…

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Gillian Yee

PhD Student

Gillian Yee (they/she) specializes in global contemporary art from 1980 to the present. With an emphasis on looking at art in the United States through a diasporic lens, their goal as a scholar is to explore and expand the realm of queerness,…

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