April 6, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Both Marie and May, who are finishing their work for their MA degrees, have been invited to be part of the Fox Board Fellows program. According to the Fox website, "Fox Board Fellows is building the next generation of business leaders dedicated to community-based engagement that strengthens their community. The program, powered by experiential learning, places graduate students on the boards of directors at local nonprofit organizations as non-voting members for an academic year."
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March 22, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Art History faculty member Joseph Kopta participated in a panel, “Globalizing Medieval Art Education: A Roundtable,” on February 25, 2023 at the 98th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America in Washington, D.C. His participation, titled “The Global Middle Ages: Syllabi in Three Case Studies,” was part of two sessions in Honor of Lawrence Nees, Professor Emeritus of Medieval Art at the University of Delaware, and an early proponent of the geographic expansion of the discipline beyond Western Europe. Kopta's presentation discussed Tyler's curricular development of its pre-modern art history course offerings from an intersectional perspective.
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March 16, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Sahiti is finishing her work in the Fox Fellows program, but will be moving directly into a full-time position as Project Manager in the Environmental Justice department of Philly Mural Arts.
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February 20, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Alvarez's book, The Affinity of Neoconcretism: Interdisciplinary Collaborations in Brazilian Modernism, 1954–1964, has been published by University of California Press.About the Book
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February 15, 2023
Author: Jane DeRose Evans
Dr. Durusu's article, "Signs of ancient climate crisis as the Hittite empire unravelled," Nature 08 Feb 2023 led to her being interviewed in the Washington Post for the article "Drought may have doomed this ancient empire — a warning for today’s climate crisis" 08 Feb 2023.
Check out both here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00271-2 and https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/02/08/climate-ch...
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January 31, 2023
Author: Emily Herbein
Tyler Art History Associate Professor Alpesh Kantilal Patel has been chosen as the 2023 Curator-at-Large at UrbanGlass, a Brooklyn, NY nonprofit that fosters experimentation and advances the use and critical understanding of glass as a creative medium. He will organize four exhibitions under the theme, “Forever Becoming: Decolonization, Materiality, and Trans Subjectivity.”
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