Current Art History Graduate Students

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Current Art History Graduate Students

Below you can explore current graduate students in the Tyler School of Art and Architecture's Art History Program below.

  • PhD in Art History

    Flavia Barbarini

    • Email: flavia.barbarini@temple.edu
    • Flavia Barbarini (she/her) is a Ph.D. candidate specializing in the art of early modern Italy, with a specific focus on drawings and prints. Her research interests include collecting and display, museology, art markets, and fresco decorations. Her doctoral dissertation examines the circulation and the market of drawings in sixteenth-century Italy, with an emphasis on the collection of the Florentine senator Niccolò Gaddi.

      Flavia received degrees from the University of Bologna and the University of Padua, where she wrote a dissertation on Giuseppe Porta Salviati’s drawings, and...

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  • PhD in Art History

    Molly Bernhard

    • Molly Bernhard is specializing in Italian and Northern Renaissance art. Before coming to Temple University, she received her Masters in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies from the University of Edinburgh and has worked at museums and galleries in New York City and Edinburgh. Her current research involves Renaissance paintings, their material culture and their provenance.

  • PhD in Art History

    Marian Berthoud

    • Email: marian.berthoud@temple.edu
    • Marian Berthoud 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 after Natural Disasters,” under her advisor, Dr. Tracy Cooper. In September 2023, Marian will be travelling to Naples for a research residency at the Centro per la Storia dell’Arte e dell’Architettura delle Città Portuali, located in the Real Bosco di Capodimonte. Marian will also be participating in the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz 2023 Summer School...

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  • PhD in Art History

    Jessica Braum

    • Email: tuj67879@temple.edu
    • Jessica Braum’s research interests include post-war developments of the art of Southeast and East Asia, Europe, and the Americas, emphasizing the intersections of art, culture, and globalization with a focus on feminist theories and methods in transnational art. She earned her MA in Printmaking from University of the Arts London. Before attending Temple University, she helmed the sustainable fashion brand Hepi Prints and served as a docent at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute. 

      MA, Printmaking, University of the Arts London, 2006
      BFA, Kansas City Art Institute, 2002...

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  • MA in Art History

    Quinn Russell Brown

    • Email: qrb@temple.edu
    • Quinn Russell Brown researches how political imagery shapes, reinforces, and subverts notions of citizenship, belonging, and status, particularly in the United States. He has a background in media and the visual arts and has consulted elected officials about visual communication. His portrait photography has appeared in places like TIME, Wall Street Journal, WIRED, and The Guardian, and his portrait of DeRay Mckesson is held in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. 

      BA, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, the University of Washington 

        

  • PhD in Art History

    Hatice Koroglu Cam

    • Email: hatice.koroglu.cam@temple.edu
    • 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, where she obtained her B.A. in Art History in 2022.  

      Her profound passion lies in the classical tradition, particularly in ancient sculpture and its influence on Renaissance art. Her undergraduate honors thesis, entitled “Decoding Michelangelo’s Passion: Laocoön and Tityus,” addressed Michelangelo's engagement with the Laocoon and...

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  • PhD in Art History

    David Carnish

    • Email: david.carnish@temple.edu
    • David Carnish is a Ph.D. student in his second year of studies in the Italian Renaissance. He received a BA in Philosophy from Valdosta State College in 1990, a M/Div from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY in 1994 and a MA in Interdisciplinary Humanities from Penn State Harrisburg in 2020.  His areas of interest, religion, humanism, spirituality, sacred image, icons, iconoclasm, and the Counter-Reformation.  He currently lives in Elizabethtown, PA where he works for Penn State Hershey...

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  • PhD in Art History

    Cloud M. Courdrelle

    • Email: mcoudrelle@temple.edu
    • Cloud M. Coudrelle (they/them) specializes in modern and contemporary prints and exhibition history in the Americas and Europe, with a focus on Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s. They have been awarded grants and fellowships by the Getty Foundation, the Smithsonian Latino Center, the Southeastern College Art Conference, and the Conservation Center at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Cloud has curated for the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection at Temple University, the New Wilmington Art Association, and the University of California, Santa Barbara, Art, Design,...

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  • MA in Art History

    Ivy D’Agostino

    • Email: ivy.dagostino@temple.edu
    • Ivy D'Agostino (she/her) is a first year MA student interested in all things Baroque! She is coming to Tyler following her graduation magna cum laude from Marywood University where she received her BA in Art History with an applied major in Religious Studies and a minor in English. Her undergraduate honors thesis titled Our Lady of Guadalupe: Baroque Artistic Syncretism and Contemporary Mexican Women’s Religious Identity exhibits her research interests of the religious dialogue present within Latin American colonial Baroque art/architecture and how contemporary artists are...

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  • PhD in Art History

    Emily Dugan

    • Email: emily.dugan@temple.edu
    • Emily Dugan (she/her) is a PhD student who specializes in 16th and 17th century art produced by Northern artists working in England. She has a particular interest in portraiture both as a genre and as a means of exploring ideas surrounding memory and absence; the representations of women; and the interrelationship between object and viewer. Emily received her undergraduate degree from Temple University and her Master’s degree from Syracuse University. 

      MA, Art History, Syracuse University, 2020 

      BA, Art History with a minor in Studio Arts, Temple University,...

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  • PhD in Art History

    Michael J. Ernst

    • Email: michaeljernst@temple.edu
    • Michael J. Ernst is currently a doctoral candidate studying Islamic art history. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied with Renata Holod before her retirement.  

      Ernst’s primary research area is the modern & contemporary Islamic visual culture of the Caucasus and Central Asia, in particular, that of Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, and the Greater Caspian Region. Intersecting with this area is his interest in digital images, video games, quotidian art, affect theory, affective computing, semiotics, nationalism, national...

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  • PhD in Art History

    Miray Eroglu

    • Email: Miray.eroglu@temple.edu
    • Miray Eroglu (she/her) is a first-year PhD student at Temple University studying Islamic art, concentrating on Ottoman art and architecture. Her research interests span the 18th to 20th centuries, exploring urbanity, sites of sociability, performance, affect, gender, and sexuality, with a focus on the romantic and erotic. Miray holds a M.A. in Art History from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, where she wrote her thesis on depictions of couples in late 17th- and 18th-century Ottoman bazaar paintings, and a B.A. from McGill University. During her studies, she interned in the...

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  • MA in Art History

    Morgan Erutti

    • Email: tur66644@temple.edu
    • Morgan Erutti (she/her) is a first-year MA student in the Research track. She holds a BA in Art History, Ancient Mediterranean Studies, and Psychology and a minor in Art from the University of Missouri. During her undergraduate degree she studied abroad in Greece, researched the art and ideologies of the Dada movement, and explored the personal liminal spaces created by death and grief through the process of art-making. Her primary research interests include the art, architecture, and material culture of Ancient Greece and 20th century American abstract art movements. 

      BA,...

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  • PhD in Art History

    Vincent Forsell

    • Email: vforsell@temple.edu
    • Vincent E. Forsell (he/they) is a specialist in art at the intersections of disabled and queer methodologies, specifically queer semiotics and its applications to the function of art within the broader spectrum of HIV and AIDS activism. They are a PhD Candidate and Adjunct Instructor in art history at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University, where they also received their MA in art history in 2019. Before coming to Philadelphia, they received their BA in art history from East Stroudsburg University in 2017.   

      MA, Art History, Temple University...

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  • PhD in Art History

    Emma P. Holter

    • Email: emma.p.holter@temple.edu
    • Emma P. Holter (she/her) is a second-year Ph.D. student and University Fellow at Temple University, where she studies the art of Renaissance Italy with a particular emphasis on Venetian drawings and prints. Her research interests also encompass monochromatic paintings, works of art left unfinished, race and gender in the quattrocento Veneto, and cultural relations between Venice and the Islamic empires in the eastern Mediterranean. 

      Emma graduated magna cum laude with departmental honors from New York University with a B.A. in Art History. As an undergraduate, she...

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  • PhD in Art History

    Kedra Kearis

    • Email: kedra.kearis@temple.edu
    • Kedra Kearis is a PhD candidate specializing in art and material culture of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Her dissertation “Cosmopolitan Savoir-Faire: Transnational Portrait Style and the Invention of the New American Woman, 1876-1920” examines the intersections between gender, space, and the visual arts. Kearis’ research has been supported by grants from The New-York Historical Society, the Association of Historians of American Art, and Temple University. She is currently a Collections Fellow at The Preservation Society of Newport County. 

       
      Dissertation Title: Cosmopolitan Savoir-Faire: Transnational Portrait Style and the Invention of the New American Woman, 1876-1920 

  • MA in Art History

    Emma Krall

    • Email: emma.krall0002@temple.edu
    • Emma Krall (she/her) is beginning her second year of the Art History MA Program, with a year under her belt studying Baroque art as well as the travel of Baroque ideas and traditions through time. She continues cultivating her passion for art education with a position as Lead Art Teacher at the Philly Art Center, while bringing this dedication into the MA program through her studies of children's programming and museum pedagogy. When not studying in the Art History Suite, you can find her at home reading, creating,...

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  • PhD in Art History

    Michael A. Lally

    • Michael A. Lally (he/him) is a Ph.D. candidate studying the architecture and material culture of East Africa and the Western Indian Ocean. His dissertation focuses on applied phenomenology, collection practices, and the interaction of the wearer, architecture, and material culture in the long nineteenth-century Yemen, the Swahili Coast, and the Horn of Africa. His additional interests include liminality in vernacular architecture and spolia/reuse. 

      Lally received his BA in art history and theoretical physics from Middlebury College. His undergraduate art history thesis focused on themes of reciprocity and procession in the mosaics of Ravenna’s San Vitale. Lally also studied at Oxford University, with a focus on Nicolo Brancaleone and Fre Seyon. 

      Lally has taught several courses at Temple, including the art of the Crusades from multiple perspectives and marine painting. Temple awarded Lally a digital humanities scholarship to create a GIS project tracing Byzantine artefacts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He also received the Swenson Family Fellowship in Eastern Christian Manuscript Studies from the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library. Lally has also worked as a Museum Coordinator at the Gloucester County Historical Society, curating exhibits and accessing the collection. 

       
      BA, Art History and Theoretical Physics, Middlebury College  

      Dissertation Title: To Wear, To Eat, To Ride, To See: Object Biographies and The History of Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century Western Indian Ocean 

  • MA in Arts Administration

    Marie Latham

    • Email: marie.latham@temple.edu
    • Marie is pursuing a Master of Arts in Art History concentrating in Arts Administration, building on undergraduate focus on Latin American Modernism and Italian mosaics. She graduated cum laude from The University of Notre Dame in the Honors Art History track with minors in Italian, Digital Marketing and Business & Economics. In her research, she investigates how artists respond to their geographic realities, especially as they live and work as expatriates. She received a Gero Travel Grant in 2022 to study the art of...

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  • PhD in Art History

    Ari Lipkis

    • Email: ari.lipkis@temple.edu
    • Ari Lipkis is focusing 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  fantasia, as well as mimesis, in the spread and development of new architectural innovations in the sixteenth century. Ari’s research examines architectural and urban vedute and their utilization by architects as statements about how they aligned their contemporary...

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  • PhD in Art History

    Li Machado

    • Email: liam.machado@temple.edu
    • Li Machado is a PhD candidate specializing in Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Latinx Art, and a Curatorial Assistant at Pomona College's Benton Museum of Art. With a research emphasis on memory and memorials, presence, and absence, Li's work builds on recent histories of queer art, queer worldmaking and youth culture, and transnational identity formation in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, particularly Los Angeles. Their dissertation, “Intricately Woven: Networks of Desire in Queer Chicanx L.A., 1985-2020” focuses on depictions of queer sociability and desire in portraiture, drawing...

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  • PhD in Art History

    Liam Maher

    • Email: wmaher@temple.edu
    • Liam Maher (he/him) is a Temple University Fellow in art history at the Tyler School of Art & Architecture. His research focuses on queerness, Catholicism, and anti/colonialism in twentieth and twenty-first century Latin American/Latinx art. His writing has appeared in Accomplice, Art & About PDX, and the National Catholic Reporter and his curatorial projects have been reviewed to acclaim in both ArtBlog and Hyperallergic. In addition to his studies, Liam teaches art history at Moore College of Art & Design. 

      MA, Art History, University of Oregon, 2020 
      BA, Art History & Political Science, University of Notre Dame, 2018 

      Advisor: Mariola Alvarez, PhD

  • PhD in Art History

    Molly Mapstone

    • Email: molly.mapstone@temple.edu
    • Molly Mapstone (she/her) is a Ph.D. student studying modern and contemporary art. Her research focuses on installation practices and unconventional materials new to the history of art, in particular, plastics. She worked as the Editorial Assistant for Winterthur Portfolio, an interdisciplinary journal of American material culture and for the Philadelphia Museum of Art as a Summer Silver Fellow. She recently taught Arts of the World I: Prehistoric to 1300 and Arts of the World II: 1300 to Present...

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  • PhD in Art History

    Nicole Emser Marcel

    • Email: nicole.marcel@temple.edu
    • Nicole Emser Marcel (she/her) is a PhD candidate studying the modern and contemporary art of the Caribbean. Her dissertation traces the systematic practices of ordering Caribbean land, from the colonial to the present, mapping the visual and material strategies of resistance utilized by artists as a method of repossessing historical narratives and the land. Her research and professional development have been supported by the Stanford University Libraries, the Huntington Library, the Lewis Walpole Library at Yale, the Clements Library, the French Colonial Historical Society, and the Temple...

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  • PhD in Art History

    María de Lourdes Mariño

    • Email: maria.de.lourdes.marino.fernandez@temple.edu
    • María de Lourdes Mariño is an independent researcher and curator, currently a Ph.D. Candidate at Temple University. She specializes in Modern and Contemporary Art from Latin America and the Caribbean, including its diaspora. Her scholarship relies on theories of postcoloniality and decoloniality as conceptual frameworks to unravel the region's race, class, gender, political, and economic power relationships as presented through the history of art.  

      Mariño's research interest centers on the history of Cuban art from 1980 to the present, focusing on the history of performance...

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  • MA in Art History

    Moe Marte

    • Moe Marte (they/them) is a second year MA Art History student on the research track focusing on ancestral memory, spirituality and queerness from regions in the Middle East and the Caribbean. Previously, they got their B.A from Saint Joseph's University double majoring in Religious and Classical studies with a minor in Art History. 

      As a previous intern at Philadelphia’s Office of Arts, Culture, and the Creative Economy they now work as a field documentor for Philadelphia’s Public Art department recording the conditions of percent for art monuments throughout Philadelphia....

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  • PhD in Art History

    Lauren M. McCardel

    • Lauren M. McCardel is the executive director of the Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College, an AAM accredited academic museum dedicated to cultivating dialogue and understanding through innovative exhibitions and programs that are always free for all. Over the last decade she has been committed to increasing access to the arts and art education and to creating platforms for critical discourse and connection through visual art. She has held previous positions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University. 

      McCardel’s...

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  • PhD in Art History

    Camila Damico Medina

    • Email: camila.damico.medina@temple.edu
    • Camila Damico Medina (she/they) is interested in the non-productive body– as leisure, rapture, and idleness may be employed in artistic practices to bring forward decolonial ways of being. With a broad specialty in Latin American modern/contemporary art history, her research focuses on the entanglements between art and technology, embodiment discourses, international constructivism, and spectatorship. Prior resuming my doctoral studies, they earned their MA in Communication Technologies and Aesthetics and took professional...

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  • PhD in Art History

    Ryan Mitchell

    • Email: ryan.mitchell0006@temple.edu
    • Ryan Mitchell specializes in the arts and architecture of Islam, specifically Ottoman visual, literary, and architectural cultures of the eastern Mediterranean in the long nineteenth century. In the 2020-21 award cycle, Ryan received a Fulbright Research Grant to Turkey in order to research the architecture of Istanbul’s late Ottoman school buildings constructed in Istanbul. A Temple University Grant in Aid (2022) and the Marcia Hall Research Award (2023) have also allowed Ryan to further his research interests in an...

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  • PhD in Art History

    Megan Reddicks Pignataro

    • Email: megan.reddicks@temple.edu
    • Megan Reddicks Pignataro (she/her) specializes painting and sculpture in Quattrocento Florence, particularly on workshop practices, optics, and perspective. Her research also considers art conservation and historical restoration practices. Her dissertation has been supported by the Renaissance Society of America (2021) and Temple Rome (2019).  

      Megan has taught at several institutions in Pennsylvania and Delaware including...

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  • PhD in Art History

    Joanna Platt

    • Email: joanna.platt@temple.edu
    • Joanna Platt is a Ph.D. 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 currently researching Philadelphia’s connections to the Works Progress Administration-sponsored Fine Art Project, specifically issues of inclusivity in the Fine Print Workshop. 

      With a...

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  • PhD in Art History

    Ali Printz

    • Email: alison.printz@temple.edu
    • Ali Printz (she/her) is a scholar, painter, 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 received a BFA in Painting and BA in Art History from West Virginia University and an MA in Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, New York. Her research has been supported by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, The Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Terra Foundation, The...

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  • PhD in Art History

    Noah Randolph

    • Noah Randolph is specializing in modern and contemporary art and visual culture, with current research focused on the intersections of monuments and public art with issues of memory, race and politics. He holds a BA in art history from the University of Louisville (2016) and a MA in art history from Temple University (2020).

  • PhD in Art History

    Rachael Reynolds

    • Email: rachael.reynolds@temple.edu
    • Rachael Reynolds (she/her) specializes in the history of photography and other works on paper. Her work focuses on the performativity of photographic processes from capture to darkroom, particularly those of photographers whose work centers on gender, nature, and mysticism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.    

      Reynolds has wide-ranging experience in museums, galleries, and arts education, having held roles in curatorial, collections management, exhibition management, research, and secondary education. Most recently, Reynolds worked in the photography...

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  • MA in Art History

    Danielle Degon Rhodes

    • Email: danielle.degon@temple.edu
    • 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 interested in improving public access to art and supporting contemporary artists in the creation of new works. Over the last 6 years, Danielle has worked alongside many artists and organizations in addition to co-owning and operating AUTOMAT Collective in Philadelphia. Her passion for arts infrastructure is rooted in the history of labor movements, government intervention, and her own experience as an artist. 

      Summer...

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  • PhD in Art History

    Samantha Rhodes

    • Email: samantha.rhodes0001@temple.edu
    • Samantha Rhodes is a PhD student studying Italian Renaissance art. Her research interests involve late sixteenth-century devotional paintings as a response to the Counter-Reformation. Samantha completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Oklahoma and received her MA in art history at American University. Before attending Temple, she also worked as an assistant curator for the Fort Smith Regional Art Museum.   

      MA,...

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  • PhD in Art History

    Erin Riley-Lopez

    • Email: erin.riley-lopez@temple.edu
    • Erin Riley-Lopez’s specialty is in contemporary art with research interests in queer, trans, and feminist theories, exhibition histories, institutional critique, and performance art. She is currently working on her dissertation which explores contemporary queer exhibitions through the lens of utopian futurity. From 2022 to 2023, Riley-Lopez was an advanced graduate student fellow at the Center for Humanities at Temple (CHAT). And from 2017 to 2021 she was a Future Faculty Fellow at Temple.  

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  • PhD in Art History

    Tyler Rockey

    • Email: tyler.rockey@temple.edu
    • 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 the antique,” and the physical and semiotic instabilities of Classical sculptures and fragments in early modern collections of antiquities. He has produced conference papers and publications that explore early-sixteenth-century grottesche decoration through the...

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  • MA in Arts Management

    Mayret Rubenstein

    • Email: mayret.rubenstein@temple.edu
    • Mayret Rubenstein (she/her) is a second-year student pursuing a Master's Degree in Art History/Art Management. Her interest is in how cultural assets contribute to economic and community growth. She operates at the intersection of cultural heritage and contemporary art expressions, the cultural travel industry, and art-based non-profit leadership. 

      Prior to joining Tyler, Mayret cursed the Art History program at the University of Havana and the Liberal Arts Honors Program at the Community College of Philadelphia. At the time, co-founded ARTempo, a non-profit contemporary art...

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  • PhD in Art History

    Brittany Rubin

    • Email: brittany.rubin@temple.edu
    • Brittany Rubin (she/her) studies print culture and the history of the nude 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 and later as Print Room Curatorial Assistant. She also was a contributing co-author for the catalogue Lines of Inquiry: Learning from Rembrandt’s Etchings, which received the College Art Association’s Alfred H. Barr Award in 2019. She received a BA from Macalester College...

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  • PhD in Art History

    Emily Schollenberger

    • Email: emily.schollenberger@temple.edu
    • Emily Schollenberger (she/her) is a PhD candidate at Temple University, where she specializes in Modern and Contemporary Art. Her dissertation analyzes contemporary artists’ use of landscape photography to engage with memory of colonial histories in the Americas and the Atlantic World. Her research interests include materiality, memory, trauma, and anti-colonial theory. She has presented her work publicly at numerous conferences and through the Library Company of Philadelphia’s Fireside Chat series. Her research has been supported by fellowships and grants from The Huntington Library, The...

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  • PhD in Art History

    Alexandra Schoolman

    • Email: alexandra.schoolman@temple.edu
    • Alexandra’s (she/her) research interests include Latin American conceptual art and social practice, particularly as they address the intersection of human and environmental rights. She graduated magna cum laude from Brandeis University and earned her MA in Modern and Contemporary Art History with distinction from the University of Glasgow. Her thesis focused on memory and historical legacy in the work of young Latin American artists. She has shared her PhD research at academic conferences and symposia at Indiana...

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  • PhD in Art History

    Lily F. Scott

    • Email: lily.scott@temple.edu
    • Lily F. Scott (she/they) is a PhD candidate specializing in American Modernism, with a focus on queer art and artists. Her dissertation, Neither Then nor Now: Queer Temporalities & Interwar Portraits of Expatriate Sapphists, examines the portraiture of/by queer American women artists living in 1920s Paris and employs several queer theoretical lenses, including those pertaining to performance, reception, trauma, archives, and temporalities. Lily is currently a fellow at The Center for the Humanities at Temple, completing her dissertation. 

      Lily was the 2021-2023...

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  • PhD in Art History

    Jessica Sternbach

    • Jessica Sternbach is currently focusing on the Dutch Early Modern Period. Her research centers around the experiential and intersensorial quality of Dutch paintings and material culture. She has been an instructor at Temple since 2016. She has written for Fugitive Leaves (2017) and Smarthistory (2021). She received her Bachelor’s in Art History from Willamette University (2013) and her Master’s in Art History and Archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts (NYU, 2016), where her thesis received honors. 

      MA, Art History and Archaeology, the Institute of Fine Arts, 2016 
      BA, Art History, Willamette University, 2013 

  • PhD in Art History

    Jackie Streker

    • Email: Jackie.streker@temple.edu
    • Jackie Streker (she/they) is a Ph.D. student focusing on the history of prints and printmaking, in particular the print culture of Early Modern Germany and the cross-cultural exchange between Southern Germany and Italy at the beginning of the 16th century.  Additionally, Jackie explores the technical history of prints through the physical expansion of the medium to the monumental scale.   

      Jackie graduated magna cum laude and with honors from the University of Maine with a B.A. in Art History and a minor in Medieval and Renaissance Studies in 2015.  ...

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  • PhD in Art History

    Jesse Sullivan

    • Email: tuj62967@temple.edu
    • Jesse Rhianyu Sullivan (she/her) is an art history PhD candidate with an artist’s background. Her methodology merges artistic, technological, and scientific approaches, working alongside professional artists and mechanical engineers alike. Since graduating from Maryland Institute College of Art she has worked and studied in Florence, Venice, and London, where she got her Master’s degree at the Courtauld Institute of Art. At Temple she has received a University Fellowship, the Marcia Hall Research Award, and the...

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  • PhD in Art History

    Srđan Tunić

    • Email: srdan.tunic@temple.edu
    • Originally from Belgrade, Serbia, Srđan (sir-john, he/him/his) is excited to join the Art History department as a PhD student.  

      Since 2011, he has been working as a freelance curator, organizing art exhibitions and educational projects. He has a passion for researching and writing about contemporary curatorial practices, street art, contemporary art, comics, science fiction, art appropriation, interculturalism, queer theory, African art, entomological illustration, among other areas of interest. Srđan is one of the cofounders of initiatives Street Art Walks Belgrade...

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  • PhD in Art History

    Megan Voeller

    • Email: megan.voeller@temple.edu
    • Megan Voeller (they/she) is an educator, curator and writer whose work focuses on critical intersections of contemporary art and health.  

      As Director of Humanities at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Megan works collaboratively with colleagues and students to infuse the arts and humanities into health professions education. They direct medical humanities programs at Sidney Kimmel Medical College—approximately twenty...

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  • PhD in Art History

    Rachel Vorsanger

    • Email: rachel.vorsanger@temple.edu
    • Rachel Vorsanger (she/her) 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 art making from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries.    

      She graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from The George Washington University in 2011 and received her Master’s in Art History and Archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University in 2017. For three years...

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  • PhD in Art History

    Lauren Wilson

    • Lauren Wilson earned her M.A. in the Interdisciplinary Program in the Humanities at Florida State University. Before joining Tyler’s PhD program in Art History, Lauren taught the Humanities at Valencia College. At Tyler, her studies involve the art history and archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age with a focus on Minoan pottery. Her research concerns cultural materials, agency, craft networks, ceramic petrography, and the digital humanities. She is currently a scientific staff member at Koumasa with the University of Heidelberg.

  • PhD in Art History

    Gillian Yee

    • Email: gillian.yee@temple.edu
    • Gillian Yee (she/they) specializes in modern and contemporary art in the United States. Their current research hones in on artist activist practices in New York City during the late 20th century, especially as it pertains to the 1980s AIDS crisis. 

      Gillian graduated summa cum laude at Georgia State University in 2021 and received both their M.A. in Art History and a Graduate Certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies the following year from the same institution. During this time they have presented their research at SECAC, SEWSA, Centre College, and...

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  • PhD in Art History

    Özlem Yıldız

    • Email: ozlem@temple.edu
    • Özlem Yıldız (she/her) is a Ph.D. candidate and a University Fellow specializing in cross-cultural exchanges in early modern Islamic book painting. She holds a fellowship in the History of Art and Visual Culture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she conducts research for her dissertation and assists with museum projects. In her dissertation, she investigates the relationship between the material and symbolic aspects of Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal depictions of the lives of the Abrahamic prophets from the sixteenth century. Özlem’s research and training have been funded by the...

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