Megan O’Neil has been named a Getty Residential Scholar for the 2022-2023 academic year. She will be working on the project, Migrating Things: Shifts of Place and Perception in the 20th-Century Pre-Hispanic Art Market.
Katherine Harrington delivers lecture on Athenian textiles
On April 6th, Katherine Harrington, Visiting Assistant Professor, gave a lecture entitled “Spinning Tales: Images of Women, the Athenian Textile Industry, and the ‘Invisibility’ of Female Labor.”
Alumnus Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi featured in The New Yorker
“Frédéric Bruly Bouabré: World Unbound”, a new MOMA exhibition curated by graduate alumnus Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi (13PhD), has been featured in The New Yorker Magazine. The exhibition surveys the career of one of Africa’s best known and most celebrated 20th-century artists. An excerpt from the exhibition catalogue can be found here.
Rune Nyord named Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow
Rune Nyord has been named a Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study of in Visual Arts at the National Gallery in Washington DC for the academic year 2022-2023. He will spend the year working on his forthcoming book critiquing the history of interpretations of the ancient Egyptian afterlife.
Abbey Hafer awarded the 2022-23 Rose Library Newton Fellowship
Abbey Hafer has been awarded the Rose Library’s Anne & Bill Newton Fellowship for the 2022-2023 academic year. She will work with the Rose Library’s instruction archivist to develop teaching and research resources on rare books in the library’s collection.
Haley Jones awarded full-time Mellon Fellowship at the High Museum of Art
Haley Jones has been awarded a full-time fellowship at the High Museum of Art for the 2022-2023 academic year. During her tenure, Haley will work under Lauren Tate Baeza, the Fred and Rita Richman Curator of African Art.
Nathan Goldberg publishes “Olympic-Scale Subversion”
Nathan Goldberg‘s article,”Olympic-Scale Subversion: Poster Art, Architecture, Performance, and the Afterlives of Mexico 1968” has been published in Refract: An Open Access Visual Studies Journal (volume 4, issue 1).
Courtney Rawlings awarded the Fox Center Graduate Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Courtney Rawlings has been awarded the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry Graduate Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the 2021-2022 academic year.
Christina Crawford wins 2021 Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching Award
Christina Crawford has been awarded the 2021 Emory Williams Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award. The award is presented annually at Commencement in recognition of a record of excellent in undergraduate teaching.
Emory College of Arts and Sciences selects three award recipients, drawn from the humanities, sciences and social sciences. Each of the other undergraduate schools — Goizueta Business School, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing and Oxford College — selects one award recipient.
The remaining 2021 honorees include:
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- Jessica M. Barber, senior lecturer in psychology, Emory College of Arts and Sciences
- Rowena Elliott, associate clinical professor of nursing, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
- Allison Kays, assistant professor in the practice of accounting, Goizueta Business School
- Stacy Bell McQuaide, professor of pedagogy in English, Oxford College
- Tracy Yandle, associate professor of environmental sciences, Emory College of Arts and Sciences
Dana Haugaard honored with the Edge Award
Dana Haugaard has received the Edge Award from the Forward Arts Foundation. The award includes a $10,000 cash prize, a two-week residency at the Hambidge Center, and a solo exhibition at the Swan Coach House Gallery in April 2021.