Below you can explore current graduate students in the Tyler School of Art and Architecture's Art History Program.
Emily Angelucci
MA Student
Emily Angelucci is a second year MA Art History student with a focus on Arts Management. Her research examines cross-cultural interactions between the ancient Near East and Mediterranean during the Bronze Age, as well as the afterlives of ancient…
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…
Abdüssemi Aydın is a first-year PhD student in Art History at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University, specializing in Islamic art and architecture. His research explores architecture, architectural patronage, and urban heritage…
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…
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…
Kayla Bruce (she/her) is a third-year PhD student in Art History at Temple University. Her research focuses on Italian Renaissance and Baroque art, particularly painting and print culture in Northern and Central Italy from the late fifteenth through…
Hatice Koroglu Cam (she/her) is a fourth-year Ph.D. student, specializing in Italian early modern art, with particular interest in painting, sculpture and graphic arts. Her research focuses on collecting practices, displaying strategies and the…
Beril Camur is a first-year Ph.D. student specializing in Bronze Age Anatolia. Her research interests center on the social, political, and administrative worlds of Bronze Age Anatolia, with particular attention to the relationship between material…
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…
Julie Cohen (she/her) is a first year MA Art History student returning to the graduate classroom while continuing her thirty-year career as an executive coach and leadership development consultant. After taking her first undergraduate art history…
Natalie Cruz (she / her) is a third-year global contemporary PhD student specializing in the SWANA region (South West Asia / North Africa) and their diasporas, with a focus on Western Armenians formally from the Ottoman Empire (now Türkiye). Her…
Camila Medina is a PhD Candidate in Art History at Temple University, specializing in modern and contemporary Latin American art. Her research investigates the intersections of gender, embodiment, materiality, and technology as constitutive forces…
María de Lourdes Mariño(She/Her) is an independent curator and researcher, 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.Mariño’s…
Béatrice Duchastel de Montrouge (she/her) is a second-year PhD student whose research focuses on contemporary North American artists and the ways they use site-specific mediums, such as museum installations, memorials, monuments, and public art, to…
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…
Arundhati Baden-Mayer Eidinger is a first year Art History graduate student on the research track. Her studies are influenced by growing up with activist parents in historic and museum-filled Washington, D.C., making her research concerned with the…
Emerson is a first-year MA student with an ambition to study Islamic art and architecture. They are specifically interested in the sacred architecture of Al-Andalus and representation of Convivencia in the arts of medieval Iberia. Their research has…
Michael J. Ernst (he/ him) is a PhD candidate specializing in Islamic art and architectural history. He holds an A.B. in History, M.A.L. and M.Phil. in Middle East & Islamic Studies, and M.S. Ed. in The Learning Sciences and Technologies from…
Miray Eroglu Wielert is a PhD candidate concentrating on late Ottoman visual culture. Her research interests span the 18th to 20th centuries, exploring urbanity, sites of sociability, performance, affect, and romance. Miray holds a M.A. in Art…
Ashley Gates (she/her) is a first-year MA student in Art History at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University. She previously attained a BA from Appalachian State University in Art History, with minors both in French and…
Operating with tandem modalities of studio practice and historical research, Frank works across temporalities and mediums to investigate art as the edifice for celebrated alterity. Frank’s primary points of focus are the depictions of transgender …
Grace Hackney is an Art History Master’s student on the research track. Her research focuses on early 20th-century Black American art, specifically women sculptors who studied in France and Italy. With a B.A. in Journalism from Hampton University,…
Fiona Helms (she/her) is a first-year MA student whose research focuses on painting in the Low Countries during the Northern Renaissance and Seventeenth Century. She is most interested in the intersection of Dutch religious paintings with subjects…
Emma P. Holter is a Ph.D. candidate specializing in the art of Renaissance Italy. Her doctoral dissertation explores drawing, underdrawing, and monochromatic painting practices in late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century Venice. She is the 2025…
Brianna Hutchins is a first-year Art History M.A. student in the Arts Management track. Her research interests are primarily focused on portrayals of death and dying in queer and feminist contemporary art. In her future career, she aims to create…
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…
Irene Hayejin Kim (she/her) is a first-year PhD student specializing in African American art, Afro-Asian cultural practices, and their intersections. Since completing her Master’s thesis, 80 BPM: The Closest Rhythm to the Heart – Archiving Black…
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…
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 …
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…
Molly Mapstone is a PhD 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 installation art from a…
Dilcia Martinez (she/her) is a first-year Art History MA student specializing in Modern and Contemporary Latin American art. Her research interests center on how artists engage with histories of colonialism, resistance, and collective memory, with…
Ana Matisse Donefer-Hickie (they/them) is a PhD candidate specializing in the visual and material culture of early modern north central Europe, with research interests in craft history, materiality, and artisanal labor practices. Their doctoral…
Martina Merlo is an interdisciplinary scholar and practitioner of architecture, urbanism, visual studies, multimedia art and technology, music and sound, pursuing a PhD at Tyler School of Art and Architecture. With particular focus in postmodern…
Claire Miller (she/her) studies fifteenth-century German printed materials about medieval mysticism, sexuality, and body horror. She is interested in studying the ways that early modern artists would depict the bodies of Jesus and other Christian…
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…
Mahsa Nouri Soula (she/her) is a PhD student in Art History at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art and Architecture. Her research interests include Qajar art and architecture and the collecting practices of Islamic art in the United States and…
Lillian Oberschlake is a current MA student at Temple University studying fashion, costume, and self-fashioning in Early Modern Venice. She is interested in how genders are defined and subverted through fashion manuals and opera costume design…
Fabiola Palacios (she/her) is a first year PhD student in Art History, specializing in Latin American modern and contemporary art, with a focus on Central American video art by women artists. Her research interests include new media…
Joanna Platt (she/her) is a PhD candidate 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. She…
Leeann Ream is a curator, art historian, museologist, and PhD student specializing in art of the United States. Her scholarship centers conceptions of labor and fluid understandings of American identity. Ream’s research frequently refers to oral…
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,…
Brittany Rubin (she/her) is a PhD candidate specializing in print culture and the history of sexuality in seventeenth-century Northern Europe. Her dissertation "Long Strokes: the Dutch Erotic Body on Paper, c. 1640-1700" investigates the exchange…
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…
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…
Jackie Streker (she/they) is a PhD candidate studying the history of print and printmaking, specializing in early sixteenth-century representations of the environment. Her dissertation explores how geological concepts can reshape our…
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…
Damla Büşra Tuğ (she/her) is a second-year PhD student and an archaeologist working with Müge Durusu-Tanrıöver on the research track. Her research interest is in the archaeology of childhood, particularly focusing on Anatolian toy culture and its…
Srđan Tunić (he/him) specializes in global contemporary art, with a focus on public art (graffiti, street art and murals), through the lens of transculturality, urban politics, and activism. He graduated from UC Davis (MA in Art History, 2023), The…
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…
Rachel Vorsanger (she/her) is a PhD Candidate in Art History at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University. Her research focuses on modern art in the United States and Spain, centering women’s abstraction, transnational exchange,…
Nathaniel Wells (he/him) is a first year MA Art History student in the research track, with a focus on Western Medieval art. His studies center on the ways that artworks surrounding holy sites affect the medieval experiences of pilgrimage. While his…
Gillian Yee (they/them) is an art historian of the Global Contemporary specializing in North America and the Asian diaspora(s). They previously received their M.A. with an additional certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Georgia…
Alexandru Zaharia (he/him) is a first-year PhD student specializing in the art and architecture of Renaissance Italy, particularly Florence and Venice. His interests center on the relationship between the built environment, craft production, and…
