Mariana Aguirre
Contact: Mariana_Aguirre@Brown.edu |
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Catherine Anderson
Contact: Catherine_Anderson@Brown.edu |
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Vanessa Anderson
Contact: Vanessa_Anderson@Brown.edu |
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Caitlin Bass
Contact: Caitlin_Bass@Brown.edu |
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Yun Cai
Contact: Yun_Cai@Brown.edu |
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Mark DePalma
Contact: Mark_DePalma@Brown.edu |
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Elisa Foster
Elisa (Lisa) Foster, 2nd year. B.A., Texas A&M University (English)
M.A., Southern Methodist University (Art History)
Medieval Art and Architecture.
I am interested in cross-cultural appropriation among Jewish, Christian and Muslim art and architecture during the Middle Ages, especially in Spain and France. I am from Dallas, Texas, so I'm slowly getting used to the New England weather!
Contact: Elisa_Foster@Brown.edu |
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Alexis Goodin
Alexis Goodin is in her sixth year of graduate studies at Brown. She received her B.A. from St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, in 1996, and her M.A. from Williams College, Williamstown, MA in 1998. She anticipates finishing her dissertation, "The Representation of Egypt at the Sydenham Crystal Palace" this summer.
Contact: Alexis_Goodin@Brown.edu |
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Yi Gu
Contact: Yi_Gu@Brown.edu |
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Mazie McKenna Harris
History of Photography, Ph.D. candidate
M.A. Boston University
B.A. Trinity University
Harris’ work considers the politics of representation in modern American prints and photographs. After completing a M.A. thesis on Ben Shahn’s photographs of Southeast Asia, she worked for several years in the Prints, Drawings, and Photographs departments of the Fogg Art Museum. Recent projects include an examination of Civil War chromolithographic caricatures, a study of retouching in commercial portrait studio photography, and research into late nineteenth-century narrative stereographs.
Contact: Mazie_Harris@brown.edu |
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Divya Rao Heffley
Divya received her B.A. in the History of Art from Yale University in 2001, where she wrote a senior thesis entitled “Complexity and Contradiction in Context: The Ambivalent Reception of Robert Venturi.” After graduation, she worked at Weiss/Manfredi Architects in New York City and the Heinz Architectural Center of the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. Divya began her graduate studies at Brown in 2004 with research interests in contemporary architecture and urbanism. She received her Master’s degree in 2006 with a Master’s Thesis entitled “Re-visioning the Urban Landscape: Spatial Perception and Sequential Vision in 1960s Urban Theory.” For her doctoral dissertation, she is examining the impact of new research in spatial perception and ecological psychology upon proposed alternatives to “top-down” modernist planning and urban renewal in American cities between 1950 and 1970. Her research will focus on the historical context of several abstract space-time notation systems created during that period to describe the complex visual experience of moving through urban space. She is particularly interested in how these systems of notation seem to have engaged in two central discourses concerned with the creation of a clear, readable, and contextually sensitive urban landscape: one on urban development and the identity and meaning of place; another on psychology, art, and new ways of seeing.
Contact: Divya_Heffley@brown.edu |
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Alanna Hildt
Contact: Alanna_Hildt@Brown.edu |
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I-Fen Huang
I-Fen Huang received her MA from National Taiwan University (2002), specializing in Chinese painting and textile. In 2001 she co-organized an exhibition for a private collection in Taiwan and co-authored the catalogue Enchanting Images: Late Chinese Painting and Calligraphy from the Shih-t'ou Shu-wu Collection. She started her study in US at New York University and worked as a graduate intern at the International Center of Photography in New York (2003-2004) before coming to Brown. Since joining the program here, she has continued her work on pictorial textile of late imperial China. Part of her research is presented at the Tenth Biennial Symposium of Textile Society of America (2006): “Wife’s Works, Husband’s Words: An Album of Gu Family Embroidery from Late Imperial China.” Focusing on the Gu family style embroidery made in seventeenth-century Shanghai and other regions in southeast China in the succeeding two centuries, her dissertation will explore issues such as the commodification of literati culture, and interrelationship between needlecraft and gender in late imperial China.
Contact: I-Fen_Huang@Brown.edu |
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Wei Jiang
Contact: Wei_Jiang@Brown.edu |
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Melissa R. Katz
BA, Williams College (English); MS, University of Delaware (Art Conservation); MA Brown University (Art History). Melissa’s research interests include the devotional art of the later Middle Ages and lay reception of clerical doctrine, with a focus on cult images as evidence of social dynamics, cultural identity, and religious belief. She is currently at work on a dissertation entitled “Interior Motives: the Vierge ouvrante (Triptych Virgin) in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia.”
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Nancy Kay
Contact: nancy.kay@fulbrightweb.org |
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Alice Klima
Alice began her undergraduate work at the University of Minnesota and finished her B.A. at Lake Forest College in Illinois. She obtained an MA in Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee before deciding on a career in Art History. She continued studies at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee in Art History and received her MA in Art History before beginning the Ph.D. program in the History of Art and Architecture at Brown University. Currently she is working on her dissertation titled, “The Last Bishop of Prague and the Foundation of the Monastery of Augustinian Canons at Roudnice on the Elbe, Bohemia.” Her interests include Central European Medieval architecture, monastic culture, the transmission of style and architecture in medieval Europe. As a Czech native, she is most interested in medieval Bohemia and issues of nationality and identity in medieval culture.
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Amanda Lahikainen
Amanda received her B.A. in philosophy from Wellesley College in 2002 and taught English in Korea the year after graduation. Studying archaeology in Athens and the Middle East as an undergraduate got her hooked on visual culture and she decided to pursue graduate study in the History of Art and Architecture at Brown. Her interests are in British art, prints, aesthetics, architecture and world monuments, and the theories and methods of art history. Amanda is pursuing a dissertation on 18th century British political caricature with K. Dian Kriz.
Contact: Amanda_Lahikainen@Brown.edu |
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Andrea Lepage
Contact: Andrea_LePage@Brown.edu |
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Anne Mitzen
Contact: msmitzen@aol.com |
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Sarah Moran
Sarah Moran, PhD candidate, Northern Renaissance Art & Architecture
Hails from: Northeast Tennessee
BA: Amherst College; Fine Arts and English
MA: Brown University, History of Art & Architecture
Dissertation: The Visual Culture of Flemish Beguinages, 1585-1700
Interests: European Art & Architecture from 1400-1700; religion and politics; the Counter-Reformation; images and devotional practice; monasticism; beguines; gender; social history; urbanism; print culture.
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Emily Chace Morash
Emily received her B.A. from Smith College in Art History and Italian Language and Literature (2004), where she spent a year studying in Florence, Italy. Emily then received her M.A. from the University of Virginia in Architectural History (2006). Her M.A. Thesis is titled, “The Città Universitaria and Cultivating a National Identity: Fascist-sponsored Urban Projects and Architecture in Rome.” She recently presented a version of this project as a paper at the Annual meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians (2007) titled, “The National and the International at the Città Universitaria: Developing Identity through Architecture.” Emily has worked at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and is the former president of the Thomas Jefferson Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians.
Her interests include the use of 3D digital models in architectural history and the use of web-page presentation tools for academic projects. For her dissertation, she hopes to explore the issues of national identity, cinema, and domesticity and their relationship to domestic architecture in post-war Italy.
Contact: Emily_Morash@Brown.edu |
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Mario Pereira
After receiving degrees from Oberlin College (BA, art history) and the University of Chicago (MA, art history), Mario worked on the editorial staff of the New York Review of Books. He then joined the curatorial staff at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum before coming to Brown in 2004. He is interested in the visual and material culture of European courts during the Renaissance and Early Modern periods as well as the literature of art.
Contact: Mario_Pereira@Brown.edu |
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Kathy Quick
Interest: Photography
Contact: Kathy_Quick@Brown.edu |
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Brian Repetto
Contact: Brian_Repetto@Brown.edu |
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Pascale Rihouet
Pascale holds a B.A.(1994) and an MA (1999) from the Sorbonne in art history. Her specialty is the Italian Renaissance. Throughout the 1990s, she was a free-lance tour leader in France and European cities, and a certified guide and art educator for museums such as the Louvre. She entered the Ph.D. program at Brown University in the Fall of 2000 with professor Evelyn Lincoln as her advisor. She is also in a dual doctoral program at the EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) with professor Jean-Claude Schmitt. Her dissertation (due in August 2007) deals with rituals and identity markers such as flags and banners in renaissance Umbria. Her approach to art history is largely based on social history and anthropology. Born and bred in Paris, she is finally settling down in Rhode Island after receiving a providential package in the form of a baby and rightful partner. She should be defending her dissertation early in the Fall of 2007 to comply with the French requirements for a doctoral degree.
Contact: Pascale_Rihouet@Brown.edu |
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Hope Saska
Hope Saska entered the MA/Ph.D program in the Department of History of Art and Architecture in September 1999. In 2002 she was awarded an MA with her thesis entitled Napoleon and the Purge of Europe: British Scatological Print Satires of Napoleon I. Her dissertation, Staging the Page: Theatricality and Graphic Satire in Eighteenth-Century England explores the conversation enacted between theatrical performance and popular print culture in Britian. Currently she holds an Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellowship in the Department of Prints, Drawings and Photographs at the Detroit Insititute of Arts.
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Erin Sassin
Status: Third Year (as of Spring 2007)
Erin received her B.A. from the University of Michigan with a dual concentration in German and the History of Art (2000). While attending Michigan she studied abroad in both Vienna and Florence. She completed her M.A. at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2004) concentrating on both Modern Architecture and Northern and Italian Renaissance Art History. She began her studies at Brown in 2004. Her advisor here is Dietrich Neumann and her main interests lie in European architecture from circa 1870-1933. She is particularly interested in how architecture intersected with the politics of reform and the negotiated class tensions in the years before WWI in Germany. Her dissertation will examine the Ledigenheim, a housing type for unmarried workers in Germany that flourished from about 1890 until the late 1920s. She seeks to ascertain how these homes for workers were positioned in the urban landscape and how this building type developed from the Gruenderzeit, to the end of the Wilhelmine Reich, and into the Weimar period. This research encompasses one of the broader themes of architectural modernism, the conflict between the individual and the collective.
While at Brown Erin has worked as a Mellon Proctor in the Decorative Arts Department at the RISD Museum of Art cataloging a collection of design drawings (2004-2005), and as a teaching assistant from Professors Neumann and Muller (2005-present). She has served as graduate student liaison to the Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning and was recently awarded Certificate I from the Sheridan Center. She is currently planning a Graduate Student Symposium in Architecture and Urbanism with two other Graduate Students in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture entitled Urban Transformations / Shifting Identities scheduled for Sept. 28-29, 2007 at Brown’s List Art Center.
Contact: Erin_Sassin@Brown.edu |
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Suzanne Scanlan
Suzanne Scanlan received her B.A. in Humanities from Stonehill College. She entered the graduate program in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Brown in 2004 and received her M.A. in 2006, with a qualifying paper entitled Massacre, Madonna and Medici: Images of Salvation and Reform in Poccetti’s Innocenti Refectory. She is currently working on her dissertation project on the visual culture of women’s religious communities in early modern Rome.
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Joseph Silva
Ph.D. candidate, Brown University
M.A., Syracuse University, Florence, Italy
B.A., Wheaton College, Norton, MA
I study the visual and material culture of Renaissance Italy with a specific focus on ducal Tuscany. My dissertation explores the artistic programs associated with the Naval Knighthood of Saint Stephen in Pisa and Florence.
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Nathaniel Stein
B.A. History of Art, Wesleyan University, 1999 M.A. History of Art and Architecture, Brown University, 2005 Nathaniel specializes in 19th-century British visual culture, architecture, and urban space. He has recently held a graduate fellowship at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women (Brown University, 2006-06) and a junior fellowship at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (London, 2007-08). Currently, he is at work on a dissertation about stereoscopy and modernity in nineteenth-century London.
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Lisa Tom
Lisa's diverse interests led her to double major in Art History and Art Media (Computing) and minor in Asian Studies at UCSD (2001). Her commitment to the History of Art prevailed, and in 2005, she received her M.A. from UCLA with an emphasis on the Italian Renaissance and minors in Classical and Japanese arts. While at UCLA, she has had the pleasure of contributing to the online image database of the Monastic Matrix and serving on the editorial board of Comitatus. Soon after, she catapulted to the East Coast to continue her studies at Brown University. Her interests include early modern issues of gender, nationality, court cultures, and discourses on art. For the moment, her dissertation focuses on portraiture, masculinities, and military history in early modern Italy.
Contact: Lisa_Tom@Brown.edu |
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Jennifer Wagner
Jennifer Marie Wagner has a B.A. in Growth and Structure of Cities from Bryn Mawr College. During her time at Brown she will concentrate on studying the history of American architecture. Jennifer is particularly interested in the residential architecture of small towns. For her undergraduate thesis, "Architectural Professionalism and the Dissemination of Architectural Style: Building Contracts in Hunterdon County, New Jersey During the Mid to Late Nineteenth-Century," she used a collection of building contracts to determine who designed the residential architecture of small towns during the Victorian era. Her thesis also discusses how style spread to and within these small towns. Jennifer is also passionate about making new discoveries about American vernacular Modernism, especially popular interpretations of Art Deco. She greatly enjoys doing archival research.
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Fan Zhang
Fan Zhang completed his B.A. at Jilin University, China, with a concentration in Archaeology (2001), and received his MA in the History of Art from Vanderbilt University (2003). He then worked in the Asian Art Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art before coming to Brown in 2004. He is interested in visual and material culture in 11th-13th century North China and currently preparing his dissertation on the visual culture of ancient Pingyang city in the context of urban development under foreign occupations.
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