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.
Emma de Jong awarded American Friends of Capodimonte Fellowship
Emma de Jong has been awarded the American Friends of Capodimonte Fellowship for 2023-2024. De Jong will draw on her background in Dutch, Flemish, and German prints from the 16th century for a major traveling exhibition on the Battle of Pavia tapestries designed by Flemish painter and draftsman, Bernard van Orley.
Annie Maloney represents Emory Art History at the 53rd Middle Atlantic Symposium in the History of Art (MASHA) on Saturday, March 4th, 2023.
Maloney will present “Saving Roman Painting: The Antiquarian Reproductions of Pietro Santi Bartoli (1635–1700)” at 10:15 am and will be introduced by Sarah McPhee.
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Ellen Archie to present at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Archeological Institute of America
Ellen Archie will present a paper entitled “The Enveloping Dionysos: Northern Greek Pebble Mosaics and the Derveni Krater” at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Archeological Institute of America in New Orleans, Louisiana, January 2023.