Haley Pierce is organizing the upcoming exhibition Blanche Hoschedé-Monet in the Light as Assistant Curator of European Art at the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, scheduled for February 14-June 15, 2025. Including over forty paintings from public and private collections, this will be the first monographic exhibition of Hoschedé-Monet’s work in the United States, and its accompanying catalogue is the first English publication dedicated to her life and art.
Emily Whitehead awarded CASVA fellowship
Emily Whitehead has received the David E. Finley Predoctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts to support work on her dissertation, “Variance and Innovation in Middle Kingdom Coffins at a Time of Standardization and Homogeneity.”
Alexandra Zigomalas awarded Emory Writing Center Fellowship
Alexandra Zigomalas has been awarded the Emory Writing Center Fellowship for the 2024-2025 academic year in support of her dissertation, “Bernini’s England: The Artistic Exchange between London and Rome, 1625-1700.”
Margaret Nagawa to present at the 2025 Nasher Prize Graduate Symposium
Margarat Nagawa will present “Otobong Nkanga’s Sensuous Reinvention of Allan Kaprow’s Baggage” at the 2025 Nasher Prize Graduate Symposium on February 28, 2024.
Elise Schlecht receives Armenian Communities Department grant
Elise Schlecht received a grant from the Armenian Communities Department of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation to enable her to travel to visit Yerevan, Abovyan, and Armavir in Armenia this summer. She will conduct field work for her research topic, “Towards a Typology of Armenian Mass Housing.”
Emily Whitehead awarded Dean’s Teaching Fellowship
Emily Whitehead has been awarded a Laney Graduate School Dean’s Teaching Fellowship for the 2024-2025 in support of her dissertation project, “Variance and Innovation in Middle Kingdom Coffins at a Time of Standardization and Homogeneity.”
Margaret Nagawa guest curates contemporary African art exhibition at the Chazen Museum of Art
Margaret Nagawa was the guest curator for Insistent Presence: Contemporary Art from the Chazen Collection, an exhibition at the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The show displays forty-five works of art by twenty-four contemporary artists from the African continent and diaspora. It is open from September 5-December 23, 2023.
Chelsy Monie to attend research residency at Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study
Chelsy Monie is part of #JustAndEquitableNow: Reimagining Arts and Humanities in Our Universities, a research project team of scholars at Emory University and the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Over the summer of 2023, Monie and other team members will convene at the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study (STIAS) in Stellenbosch, South Africa for a research residency. For more information about the project, please click here.
Haley Jones awarded Fox Center Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Haley Jones has been awarded the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry Graduate Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the 2023-2024 academic year in support of her dissertation project, “Value and Authenticity in African Art Auctions, 2000-2020.”
Annie Maloney named Visiting Assistant Professor of Early Modern Art History at Oberlin College
Annie Maloney has been named Visiting Assistant Professor of Early Modern Art History at Oberlin College for the 2023-2024 academic year.