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May 31, 2023

Emily Schollenberger (PhD Candidate) awarded fellowships at the Huntington Library, New College, Oxford, and The Bancroft Library

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Emily is the recipient of an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship at the Huntington Library, a Huntington Travel Exchange Fellowship with New College, Oxford, and a Bancroft Library Summer Study Award (2023). The fellowships will support research for her dissertation "Shifting Sediments: Photography, Memory, and Imperial Landscapes in Contemporary Art." Read More

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May 16, 2023

Peter Wang (Ph.D. 2017) now at the School of Art and Visual Studies at the University of Kentucky (UK SAVS)

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Peter Wang (Ph.D. 2017) recently accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at the School of Art and Visual Studies at the University of Kentucky. (UK SAVS) He is excited to be working with 30 some art history majors and a few MFA students in Curatorial Studies. After a one-year visiting assistant professorship at Saint Mary's College and a five-year period as a lecturer at Butler University, Peter has developed more than a dozen courses, and he looks forward to connecting his research with his teaching at Kentucky, including surveys and special topics on American art, modern/contemporary art, and history of photography. He will continue to work on his book manuscript on photography and the American road trip, while developing the next research project on Asian American art and visual culture. Read More

May 16, 2023

News about graduated BAs

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Haley Brown (BA 2021) will be attending NYU to pursue an MA in Costume Studies Tamane Takehara (BA 2022) has been accepted into the Art History program at SAIC, where they will pursue their MA. Read More

May 8, 2023

Michael J. Ernst awarded Title VIII grant

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Michael was awarded a Title VIII Language Training Grant from the U.S. Department of State for his studies in the Azerbaijani language for the summer of 2023. Read More

Emma Holter in Venice
May 8, 2023

Emma Holter reviews Vittore Carpaccio exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Emma Holter published, "Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice (National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, November 20, 2022–February 23, 2023)" in Renaissance Studies online: 17 April 2023; forthcoming in volume 37, issue 3, 2023. You can find the review here: https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.libproxy.temple.edu/doi/10.1111/rest.128... Read More

May 5, 2023

Summer 2023 undergraduate internships!

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Seohyun (Sera) Park will be part of the 2023 Andrew W. Mellon Opportunity for Diversity in Conservation at UCLA/Getty Interdepartmental Program in the conservation of cultural heritage Zoe Cudney will be interning at InLiquid here in Philly Read More

Rachel Vorsanger speaking in front of a screen
May 4, 2023

Rachel Vorsanger presents talk at "Look at a Book" series

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Rachel presented at the "Look at a Book" series, organized by Dr. Joe Kopta, with the Charles Library. She presented on “Alicia Bailey’s Cosmeceutical Collection” and told us: "In this unique artist book, the Cosmeceutical Collection, Alicia Bailey has created three miniature books that are each contained in a cosmetic case that recalls different forms of makeup: an eyeshadow palette entitled Belladonna; a press-powder compact entitled Compact Beauty; and a tube of mascara entitled Lashlure.  The text inside each recounts the history of beauty standards that women have been held to, and explains in a witty, wry, and solemn narrative the dangerous extremes women went to in hopes of achieving those standards." Read More

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