Alumni

  • Kedra Kearis headshot

    Kedra Kearis

      Kedra Kearis (PhD, 2023) is the Associate Curator of Art and Visual Culture at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library and is an Affiliated Assistant Professor in the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture at the University of Delaware. Previously, she researched the paintings collection at The Barnes Foundation, where she served as a faculty member in adult education. Kearis is the author of “‘Her Own Room Will Be a Picture’: Alva Vanderbilt’s Bedroom à la Pompadour at Marble House (1892) by Jules Allard et Fils,” for Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide (2024). She has received grants and fellowships in support of her research from the Association of Historians of American Art, the New-York Historical Society, the Preservation Society of Newport County, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, and the Center for Global Literacy and Cultural Studies at Michigan State University. Kearis serves on the Board of Directors at the Alliance Française de Philadelphie.

  • Nikki Pareja headshot

    Marie N. (Nikki) Pareja

      Nikki is a Consulting Scholar for the University of Pennsylvania, Visiting Scholar at the University of Oxford, and Assistant Professor at Salisbury University (MD). She is the founder and director of several projects, including the Plasters Analysis Project (PLAN) at the University of Pennsylvania Museum; the Indus-Aegean Research Network at the University of Oxford; the excavation simulators at Penn State University in Harrisburg and Marshall University. Her newest venture, the Aegean Bronze Age Study Initiative (ABASI), is a non-profit devoted to supporting undergraduate students in gaining archaeological experience overseas, from excavation, study, research, and scientific materials analysis to archaeological illustration and reconstructions, conference presentations, and publication.

      She participates in several active archaeological projects in Greece, among which are the Stelida, Naxos Peak Sanctuary Project (SPS) and the Stelida, Naxos Archaeological Project (SNAP); Mochlos Archaeological Project; and Sissi Archaeological Project. She maintains regular publication of transdisciplinary and collaborative projects, some of which have been featured by Smithsonian, New Scientist, and other news outlets – both archaeological and not -- around the world.

      For more information, please visit her website: https://marienicolepareja.wixsite.com/home 

  • Adrienne Hess

      Adrienne (BA, 2020) headed to Kutztown University to complete an MA in Arts Administration.

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