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September 1, 2022

Art History grad students research and present papers in the summer of 2022

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Lauren Wilson (PhD student) travelled to Crete in June on a grant to the INSTAP-SCEC study center to conduct preliminary research on the ceramic materials from the rescue excavation of Kastelli. The site is southeast of Knossos and produced Minoan pottery that will be the focus of her dissertation. She returned in August to attend a course on prehistoric through Roman pottery analysis taught by professors from the British School in Athens. Lauren also presented a paper, “Defining the End of the MM IIB in the Mirabello Region: the Alatzomouri Pefka Deposit” at the workshop, ‘Protopalatial Pottery: Relative Chronology and Regional Differences in Middle Bronze Age Crete’ hosted by INSTAP-SCEC in honor of its 25th anniversary. Read More

headshot Emily Schollenberger
September 1, 2022

Emily Schollenberger (PhD student) receives 2022 Art History Annual Graduate Teaching Award

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Emily tells us in her teaching philosophy that, "My own experience as an undergraduate studying art history shaped my goals for teaching. Art history transformed my awareness of racism, sexism, and colonialism, revealing how these injustices remain embedded in our visual culture and the ways that artists and makers have critiqued social issues. Teaching is a way to pass this transformative experience on to my students and to equip them to not only become visually literate, but to employ their visual literacy toward ethical commitments to inclusivity and justice." Her syllabi consistently reflect these goals, with inventive and technologically innovative assignments. Emily has completed temple's Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education. Read More

August 13, 2022

Tyler Rockey (PhD candidate) to speak at the University of North Carolina

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

PhD Candidate Tyler Rockey will deliver a paper entitled ‘“Ancient’ Marble as Natural Resource: The Materiality and Reuse of Sculpture Fragments in Early Modern Rome” at the University of North Carolina’s 8th Annual Art Student Graduate Organization Symposium “Matters of Art: Materiality, Functionality, and the Agency of Art Objects.” The paper, part of the panel “Materials in Decline: Displacing, Degrading, Decaying,” presents the view of ancient marble sculptural fragments used in renaissance restorations of antique statues as natural resources with unique and differing connotations, systems of extraction and movement, agency, and material qualities than other stone resources.   Read More

August 10, 2022

Ozlem Yildiz (PhD student) publishes article on Ottoman manuscript

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

The article, "A Wise Enemy: The Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Portrayal of the Polish Commander Stanislaw Zolkiewski" can be found in IKON: Journal of Iconographic Studies 15 2022. If you would like to read this article before it is available online, please contact Oslem. Read More

August 10, 2022

Lynn Dolby (MA 2004) curates show at Arthur Ross Gallery

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Lynn Dolby, Collections Manager and Assistant Curator of the Penn Art Collection has curated a show that will be on view until August 21, 2022: "From Studio to Doorstep: American Artists in Prints from the Penn Art Collection": https://penntoday.upenn.edu/Arthur-Ross-Gallery-From-Studio-to-Doorstep-... Read More

August 8, 2022

Ali Printz (PhD candidate) is 2022-2023 Tyson Scholar at Crystal Bridges

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

The Tyson Scholars of American Art Program encourages and supports interdisciplinary scholarship that seeks to expand boundaries and traditional categories of investigation into American art and visual and material culture from the colonial period to the present. Ali's fellowship begins in September of 2022 as she continues her research and writing for her dissertation. Read More

Michael J. Ernst with friend in Azerbaijan
June 7, 2022

Michael J. Ernst (PhD student) awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship to work abroad

Author: Jane DeRose Evans

Michael J. Ernst (Ph.D. student) was awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship from the American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC), which is a member of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC).  Michael plans to use this fellowship to help pay for expenses related to research in Azerbaijan focused on gas station prayer-houses built for Azerbaijan’s Shi’a Muslim population. Read More

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