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.
Faculty News, 2020 and Earlier
Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi has received a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)-Mellon Fellowship for Digital Publication for her work on the collaborative, born-digital publication project Mapping Senufo through August 2020.
Christina Crawford has been awarded a Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art. The fellowship will support work on her second project, Atlanta Housing Interplay.
Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi and Constantine Petridis of the Art Institute of Chicago have been awarded a Core Program Fellowship from The Camargo Foundation. The fellowship will support their work on Mapping Senufo in the spring of 2020. During the fellowship period, Gagliardi and Petridis will mine archives, analyze relevant documents, and write text for the project.
Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi and Lisa Lee have both been named fellows at The Clark Art Institute. The fellowship program enables scholars to pursue their research and participate in various institute events. While in residence at the Clark during the fall of 2019, Gagliardi will work on the collaborative, born-digital publication project, Mapping Senufo, she initiated and co-directs. Lee will be in residence during the spring of 2019 to develop a monograph analyzing the early work of Thomas Hirschhorn.
Elizabeth Pastan has been named a Senior Fellow at the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry for the 2019-2020 academic year.
Walter Melion has been awarded the Woolford B. Baker Award for his tireless and outstanding service to the Michael C. Carlos Museum.
Elizabeth Pastan was interviewed on CNN about the artwork and relics that survived the Notre-Dame de Paris fire.
The catalogue for the LACMA exhibition,
Found in Translation: Design in California and Mexico, 1915-1985, which includes an essay by Megan O’Neil, has been awarded the 2019 Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award from the College Art Association. The Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award is given for an especially distinguished catalogue in the history of art, published in the penultimate calendar year under the auspices of a museum, library, or collection.
Megan O’Neil will spend the spring semester 2019 at the Bard Graduate Center to work on a book in progress, The Lives of Ancient Maya Sculptures, which explores ancient Maya practices of sculptural creation, resetting, destruction, burning, and burial.
Sarah McPhee and Renée Stein have been awarded $650,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as part of a $1,000,000 grant to continue the Mellon Graduate Fellowship in Object-Centered Curatorial Research. The grant will go to the Art History Department and the Michael C. Carlos Museum and support continued collaboration with the High Museum of Art.
The catalogue for the J. Paul Getty Museum and Royal Academy of Arts exhibition, The Renaissance Nude, which includes an essay by Jean Campbell, “Painting Venus in the Poetic Tradition of the Early Reniassance,” has been named one of the Books of the Year 2018 by The Times Literary Supplement.
Christina E. Crawford was featured in the Emory Report for her undergraduate course, “The Architect and the City.”
Jean Campbell has been awarded a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Walter Melion has been granted a URC-Halle Award in support of his book project ‘Motus mixti et compositi: The Portrayal of Mixed and Compound Emotions in the Visual and Literary Arts of the Low Countries, 1500-1640.’
Bonna Wescoat and Emory University are the recipients of a Connecting Art Histories Grant from The Getty Foundation for Beyond the Northern Aegean. The lecture series will explore how ancient communities traversed political and cultural borders to express, appropriate, and manipulate Greek architectural forms and ideas.
Todd Cronan is the 2018 recipient of the Minor White Archive Research Grant at Princeton University for his project “Reading Photographs: Minor White and the Problem of Audience.”
Jean Campbell has been appointed a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study of the Visual Arts at the National Gallery for 2018-2019.
Christina E. Crawford has been awarded the Emerging Scholar Prize by the Society for Historians of Eastern European, Eurasian, and Russian Art for her article, “From Tractors to Territory: Socialist Urbanization through Standardization.”
Sarah McPhee has been awarded a Samuel Candler Dobbs Chair in recognition of her exceptional accomplishments in scholarship, teaching, and service.
Walter Melion has been named the director of the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry.
Claire Seidler presents a paper at the Archeological Institute of America
Claire Seidler presented a co-authored paper “(Re)Constructing the Stoa of Samothrace: A Local Dedication with International Ambition” with Samuel Holzman, and Amy Sowder Koch at the Annual Meeting of the Archeological Institute of America, via Zoom, January 2021.
Graduate News, 2020 and Earlier
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Cody Houseman has been awarded a 2020 Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation Graduate Fellowship to study the Museum’s collection of Roman marble cinerary urns, their provenance, and curatorial display history. He also will deliver a presentation on his research for the Museum Foundation in New York at a future date.
Courtney Rawlings has accepted an appointment as an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow at the Huntington Library in California. As a Fellow at the Huntington Library, Courtney will continue research on her dissertation which is broadly concerned with experiments by Los Angeles architects in low-cost modern architecture at midcentury.
Kelin Michael has been named the 2020-2021 Graduate Curatorial Intern in the Manuscripts department at the The Getty. Beginning in September, the internship will allow Kelin to contribute to the research and exhibitions of one of the foremost collections of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the country.
Amy Butner has been awarded the two-year Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellowship in the Metropolitan Museum’s Department of Egyptian Art. The fellowship combines both curatorial training and scholarly research and will enable Amy to assist in the development of a major exhibition, tentatively titled “The Gods of Ancient Egypt.”
Rachel Patt presented a paper “Conceiving the Roman Portrait Image” at the CAA 2020 Annual Conference, Chicago, February 15, 2020.
Brooke Luokkala will give a paper at the conference, “Collecting Mexican Art Before 1940: A New World of Antiquities.” Her talk is entitled “The Avery Judd Skilton Collection.”
Ashley Eckhardt has been named the inaugural Hesperia Fellow by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens Publications Office for the 2019-2020 academic year.
Kimberly Schrimsher has been named an Assistant Professor at Northern Virginia Community College. She will be teaching “History and Appreciation of Art.”
Margaret Nagawa‘s article, “Conveying the Mallet: Barkcloth Renewal and Connectedness in Fred Mutebi’s Art Practice,” has been published in Critical Interventions (volume 12, issue 3).
Rachel Patt was awarded the David E. Finley Fellowship from the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts. The fellowship facilitates two years of research and travel and a third year in residence at the Center for dissertation completion and curatorial work.
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Rachel Patt has been awarded a scholarship from the Walter Read Hovey Memorial Fund at The Pittsburgh Foundation in support of her dissertation research.
Catherine Barth has been awarded the 2019 Minor White Archive Research Grant. Catherine will focus on White’s advocacy for the work of photographer Frederick Sommer at the Minor White Archive, Princeton University, summer 2019.
Emma de Jong has been awarded a one-year Mellon Fellowship at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Beginning in 2019, Emma will be working in the Rijksmuseum Printroom.
Julianne Cheng received the Colburn Fellowship from the AIA to study at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens in the summer of 2019.
Kelin Michael was awarded a Samuel H. Kress Fellowship to study German at Middlebury Language Schools for the summer of 2019.
Amy Butner was awarded the Mellon Interventions Project Public Scholarship Teaching Fellowship for 2019-2020.
Cody Houseman received a grant from the LGS Mellon Humanities PhD Interventions Project to support travel and collaboration on digital analysis techniques for application in museums with the Art Institute of Chicago, the Spatial History Project at Stanford University, and the Virtual World Heritage Laboratory at Indiana University, Bloomington.
Emma de Jong and Kelin Michael co-curated an exhibition titled The Materiality of Devotion: From Manuscript to Print at Emory’s Pitts Theology Library (December 17th, 2018 – March 15, 2019).
Kelin Michael presented a paper “At the Edge of Orthodoxy: Hrabanus Maurus’s In honorem sanctae crucis” at the Medieval Roundtable Series. Emory University, October, 2018.
Cecily Boles delivered a guest lecture entitled “Dressing for Eternity: Clothing choices in Early Modern Catholic women’s funerary portraits,” in Professor Alessia Lirosi’s course Fashion through history at l’Università La Sapienza on November 8, 2018.
Kelin Michael will present “The Role of Hrabanus Maurus’s In honorem sanctae crucis in the Crisis of the Carolingian World” at the International Conference on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI. May, 2019.
Emma de Jong and Kelin Michael received a grant from the Mellon Humanities PhD Interventions Project and the Laney Graduate School’s New Thinkers, New Leaders program to organize a conference (March 1, 2019) in conjunction with their exhibition The Materiality of Devotion: From Manuscript to Print. Kelin will present a paper titled “The Transition of Material: Hrabanus Maurus’s In honorem sanctae crucis as Manuscript and Printed Book.”
An Jiang presented a paper “Shape Reservation and Shape Agency: The Kleophrades Painter and His Kylixes” at the Archaeological Institute of America Annual Conference in San Diego, California, January, 2019.
Caitlin Glosser presented a paper “Visualizing Silences in the Archive: Mapping Senufo” at the Network Detroit 2018 Digital Humanities and Activism: Communities in Motion conference at Wayne State University, September 21, 2018.
Ashley Eckhardt has been named the Jacob Hirsch Fellow at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA)
Ashley Eckhardt received the Coucil of American Overseas Research Centers’ (CAORC) Multi-Country Research Fellowship, which will allow her to conduct dissertation research in Italy and Turkey in the summer of 2019.
Joanna Mundy presented a paper, “Domestic Spaces of Roman Domus,” at the European Association of Urban History conference, Rome, Italy, August 29, 2018.
Amy Butner was awarded the ARCE Research Fellowship and will travel to Egypt in early 2019 for dissertation research. Butner’s plans include joining the University of Cambridge’s archaeological dig at Amarna.
Laura Somenzi has been named a Predoctoral Fellow in the Department of Prof. Dr. Alessandro Nova at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (Max-Planck-Institute).
Rachel Patt presented a paper, “Understanding Material before Materiality: the Case for Interdisciplinary Approaches to Glass,” at the triennial meeting of the Association Internationale de l’Histoire du Verre taking place in Istanbul, Turkey, from September 3rd through 7th, 2018.
Catherine Barth has been named a Graduate Intern for 2019 in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum.
John C. Witty has been appointed the 2018-2020 Anne L. Poulet Curatorial Fellow at the Frick Collection in New York.