Europe Before 1750
Current graduate students
Saskia Beranek
Research area: seventeenth century Dutch art, architecture and patronage
Sarah Bromberg
PhD in progress: "The Fifteenth-Century Context and Reception History of the Illuminations in Nicholas of Lyra’s Postilla super totam bibliam"
Amy Cymbala
Research area: Baroque art
MA Paper: "The Splendid Force of Her Presence: Self-Fashioning in the Portraits of
Vittoria della Rovere"
Julia A. Finch
PhD in progress: "Implications of Medieval Literacy for Late-Medieval Visual Culture (1200-1500): From the Virgin Mary to the Lay Reader"
James Jewitt
Research area:
Early Modern European landscape painting, and the history of landscape painting
MA paper: "The Landscape of Fortune in Sixteenth-Century Italian Portraiture"
Kathy Johnston-Keane
PhD in progress:
"Caravaggio’s Drama: Art, Theater and Religion during Italy’s 'Spanish Age'"
Kathryn Martin
PhD in progress: "The Politics of Devotion: Saints Erik, Olaf, and Birgitta in Late Medieval Swedish Art"
Rachel Miller
Research area:
Renaissance and Baroque art, Japanese art, exchanges between Europe and Japan in the 16th and 17th centuries
MA Paper:
"For the Greater Glory of Deusu: Art and Architecture on the Jesuit Mission in Japan"
Rebekah Perry
PhD in progress: "Public Piety, Invented Tradition, and Civic Identity in the Art and Architecture of Late Medieval Tivoli"
Karen Webb
PhD in progress: " Medieval Manuscript Diagrams, Architectural Structures and their Relationship"