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Recent Graduate Student Achievements and Publications
2008-2009
- Cristina Albu presented "Hans Haacke and Martha Rosler: Word-Image Dialectics in Photography of the 1970s," 8th International Conference on Word and Image Studies, Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, Paris, July 2008, and "Entropic Discourse in Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty and Henry Thoreau's Walden," RAAS-Fulbright Biennial Conference, University of Bucharest, May 2008.
- Robert Bailey delivered a paper entitled "Unconscious Reproduction: Jenny Holzer's Redaction Paintings" at Pennsylvania State University’s Graduate Student Association for Visual Culture's First Annual Graduate Conference: Image as Witness, April 17-18, 2009.
- Shalmit Bejarano recieved the Iron and Steel fellowship for this academic year and published “On Parody, Appropriation, and Ideology in Harunobu’s Images of Sericulture” in: Mostow, Jushua and Averbuch, Sharalyn (eds.) Proceedings of the Association of Japanese Literary Studies, pp. 179-203.
- Brianne Cohen was awarded a 2009-2010 DAAD fellowship.
- Amy Cymbala was awarded the Italian Committee Nationality Rooms Scholarship for summer travel.
- Julia Finch presented "Visual Narratives and Hybrid Literacies: Parents, Children, and Education in Late Medieval France" at the 26th Annual Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies Graduate Student Conference in Chicago.
- Izabel Galliera was awarded the Hungarian Committee Nationality Rooms Scholarship for summer travel.
- Karla Huebner (PhD 2008) published "Girl, Trampka, nebo Zába? The Czechoslovak New Woman," book chapter forthcoming in The New Woman
International (edited by Elizabeth Otto and Vanessa Rocco,
University of Michigan Press, 2010). Her article "The Whole World Revolves Around It: Sex Education and Sex Reform in First Republic Czechoslovakia," is in revision for inclusion in Aspasia.
Huebner presented "Surrealism Comes to Me In a Dream: The Transgressive Eroticism of the Early Prague Surrealists," Surrealism and Non-Normative Sexualities Session at the Association of Art Historians Conference, Manchester, England, April 2009. - James Jewitt was awarded the Newberry Renaissance Consortium Grant for
research at the Folger Institute. - Annah Kellogg-Krieg was awarded the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA) Graduate Prize for her essay "'Now I prophesize, Lehnin, your future destiny': Christoph Hehl and Romanesque Revival in the Crown of Roses Church (1899-1900)."
- Kathryn Martin was awarded a 2009-2010 American-Scandinavian Foundation Fellowship.
- Travis Nygard presented "Grant Wood and the Visual Culture of Agribusiness" at the 26th Annual Art History Graduate Student Symposium at Florida State University. A revised version is scheduled for publication in that institution's art history journal Athanor in the fall of 2009.
Nygard presented papers on ancient Maya archeology, co-authored with Linnea Wren, at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association and the 41st Annual Chacmool Conference at the University of Calgary. - Leslie Wallace presented "Betwixt and Between: Conceptions of Hybridity in Ancient China," at the Southeastern College Art Conference in New Orleans.
- Mandy Jui-man Wu presented "Cultural Crossovers in Mortuary Art during the Sixth Century in China." New York Conference on Asian Studies 2008, Hamilton College, NY, September, 2008.
- Saskia Beranek, Brianne Cohen, and Leslie Wallace took highest honors for their outstanding presentations at the 2009 University of Pittsburgh School of Arts & Sciences Grad Expo. Sara L. Sumpter served as the Grad Expo Committee Chair.