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Michael Baird
Educational History: Centre Higher, BA in Fine art History, 2019
Michael Baird is a doctoral student in the department of Art and Fine art History at the Academy of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is interested in the Western reception of African material culture and how the discourse of fine art was utilized in the fashioning of national identity at the cease of the colonial era. His current work centers on how art teaching formed an integral component of the British colonial apparatus in the East Africa Protectorate and how this colonial educational activity in making continues to influence understandings of art within the contemporary nation-country of Uganda and perceptions of Ugandan fine art abroad. In 2019, Michael's senior thesis contended with representations of black masculinity in the oeuvre of Robert Mapplethorpe and the social construction of categories inside visual culture. Following his graduation, he worked as a curatorial intern and later curatorial and educational activity banana at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C. The work he did at the museum was part of a larger initiative to re-evaluate the means in which the museum characterizes, displays, and educates the public on African-inspired religions and objects that have acquired religious value.
Franny Brock
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/franny-brock-a9704137/
Educational History: The Courtauld Institute of Art, MA in the History of Art, 2012; Oberlin Higher, BA in Art History, 2009
Franny is a doctoral candidate at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, specializing in eighteenth-century French art and works on paper. She was advised by Dr. Mary D. Sheriff until Dr. Sheriff's passing in fall 2016. Her dissertation, entitled "Cartoon the Amateur," is now being supervised by Dr. Melissa Hyde (University of Florida). Franny's project examines drawings made by amateurs, particularly women, working outside of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in eighteenth-century France. Before arriving at UNC, Franny completed her BA in Art History at Oberlin Higher and her MA in the History of Art at The Courtauld Institute of Art in London. She completed her master'southward caste in eighteenth-century French and British drawings, taught by Dr. Katie Scott and Professor David Solkin. Franny has held positions at the Allen Memorial Art Museum, The Frick Collection, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Ackland Art Museum. She has curated and co-curated a number of exhibitions, including "Visions of Antiquity in the Eighteenth Century" at the Dallas Museum of Fine art and "Celebrations and Revelries in Seventeenth-Century Dutch art" at the Ackland Art Museum. She also has expertise in student and kinesthesia support, having worked at the UNC Writing and Learning Center and the Center for Faculty Excellence.
Rachel Ciampoli
Educational History: College of William and Mary, B.A. in Art History with a pocket-sized in Management and Organizational Leadership, 2019
Rachel is a first-yr PhD student in the department of Art and Fine art History at UNC. Her undergraduate honors thesis examined the negotiation of visual culture and public space past African Americans in antebellum New York Metropolis through the previously unexplored nineteenth-century painting "Servants at a Pump" past Italian-American artist Nicolino Calyo. Rachel's enquiry probes the human relationship between racialized identities and depictions of public light-green spaces in American art. She is interested in the role of landscape in the American art canon and in the formation of national identity. Before beginning the PhD programme, Rachel spent three years developing a visual arts integration initiative inside the education department at the National Museum of African American History and Civilization in Washington, D.C.
Erin Dickey
Website: erindickey.com
Educational History: UNC-Chapel Hill, MA, Fine art History/MS Computer science, 2018; University of Chicago, MA Religious Studies, 2010; Boston Academy, BA English language/Religious Studies, 2008
Erin is a Ph.D. student focusing on contemporary art and technology, with specific interests in media theory, histories of telecommunications technologies, visuality, materialism(s), and archives. Erin was a Young man in the Institute of Museum and Library Services-funded "Learning from Artists' Athenaeum" program (2015-2017). Prior to coming to UNC, Erin was Development and Outreach Coordinator at Black Mount Higher Museum + Arts Center in Asheville, NC. From 2010-2012, she worked as a Mobile Facilitator recording stories and conversations across the U.South. for the national oral history nonprofit StoryCorps.
Emily DuVall
Educational History: University of Georgia, Thou.A. in Art History, 2019; Birmingham-Southern College, B.A. in History and Art History, 2016
Emily DuVall is an Art History Ph.D. student working with Dr. Tania String. Emily studies the French Renaissance court, specifically the origins and endurance of majestic symbols. Her dissertation addresses the demonstration of power and the possession of space post-obit the Hundred Years' War, every bit seen in depictions of ceremonial entries and the royal hunt. She has worked as a curatorial intern at the Albany Museum of Art in Albany, Georgia, as a gallery assistant at Portraits, Inc. in Birmingham, Alabama, and most recently, as the Pierre Daura Graduate Intern at the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens, Georgia.
Miranda L. Elston
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mirandalelston
Educational History: Western Washington University, BA in History, 2009; Parsons, School of Design articulation plan with the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Pattern Museum, MA in The History of Design and Curatorial Studies, 2012.
Miranda is a Ph.D. candidate at UNC-Chapel Hill, working with Dr. Tania String. Her dissertation project, "Architectural Geographies: Spatial Representation in Early on Tudor Imagination (1509-1547)," explores the theme of sixteenth-century experience and perception of architectural infinite through literary and pictorial examples. Her broader interests include England's relationship to the Atlantic world in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Miranda completed her undergraduate studies at Western Washington University. She earned her MA in the History of Design and Curatorial Studies offered jointly past Parsons, School of Pattern and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Miranda has worked as a consultant researcher and digital programmer for Local Projects. In addition, she consulted on digital installations for the National Edifice Museum, the National Museum of American Jewish History, and the National September eleven Memorial & Museum. She has previously worked every bit an adjunct teacher at Parsons the New School and Elon University and worked equally a Learning Coach at UNC. Miranda has received awards from Kress Fellowship for Applied Inquiry, the Maynard Adams Fellowship for the Public Humanities, the Visiting Scholar Award at the Yale Center for British Fine art, the Graduate School at UNC, and the UNC Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies. She has published several manufactures and book chapters and was awarded the Best Essay Prize Recipient for her article "Holy Things: Dürer's Feast of the Holy Rosary in the Rudolfine Courtroom," inCarae: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Vol 5. (2019).
Sarah Emily Farkas
Educational History: The University of Texas at Austin, MA – Fine art History, 2019; Oberlin College, BA – Art History and German Studies, 2012
Sarah is a Ph.D. pupil focusing on sixteenth-century English language and High german art of the Reformation, working with Dr. Tania String. She is especially interested in bug of gender, decorative objects, and jewelry in the early on modern world. She is a 2020-21 Wilson Library Hanes Graduate Fellow working with numerous objects in the Rare Book Drove and was the 2020-21 Graduate Intern at the Ackland Art Museum. While an undergraduate at Oberlin College, Sarah also worked every bit a curatorial banana for the Allen Memorial Art Museum.
Brianna Guthrie (May 2022)
Educational History: Syracuse University, B.A., 2006; Academy of Florida, M.A., 2008
Brianna is a Ph.D. candidate specializing in the portraiture of early modern England. Under the guidance of Dr. Tatiana C. Cord, her dissertation, entitled "Maternity and Matriarchy in English Family Portraits, 1603-1685," evaluates the work of mothering and maternal authority equally pictured in paintings, prints, sculptures, and other textile objects. She seeks to highlight these visual examples of maternal work every bit our own society becomes more conscious and song about the unrecognized and historically dismissed labor involved in childcare. Her other research interests include portrayals of families, gender and sexuality, body theory, and the imagery of contemporary royalty. Brianna has received grants and fellowships from the Folger Shakespeare Institute, the UNC Graduate Schoolhouse, the Ackland Museum of Art, and the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Program at UNC. Prior to joining the programme, she was an Adjunct Professor at Palm Beach State Higher and a Curatorial Assistant at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, FL.
Sophie Heldt
Educational History: Wake Woods University, BA in Art History, 2020
Sophie is a Primary'due south pupil in Art History at UNC focusing on late 19th century and early 20th century French art. She is a recipient of a Graduate School Merit Fellowship and the Graduate Assistant for the John and June Allcott Gallery. Sophie is especially interested in studying artists who lived and worked in plow-of-the-century Paris and wants to explore the dynamic betwixt grade, perception, and psychology in relation to these artists' creative processes. She hopes her background equally a visual artist, particularly in painting and printmaking, will lend a unique perspective to her fine art historical research.
Josh Hockensmith
Website: http://www.bluebluerbooks.com/
Educational History: Academy of Richmond, BA, 1995
My main surface area of involvement is artists' publications: artists' books, zines, Web-to-impress work, and other kinds of printed matter. I came to artists' publications as a writer and poet interested in how different embodiments of a text impact its meaning, and then I'thou very interested in the intersection of text and visual art, and in a postcolonial view of the book as only 1 among many technologies of content transmission across cultures. I'1000 a career library worker involved in collecting artists' publications and pedagogy with them. I also take a studio practice creating them under the press name Blue Bluer Books. My poems, translations, and flash fiction take appeared in some literary journals over the years and my artists' books are held in a number of library, museum, and private collections.
Savannah Hubbard
Educational History: University of Mississippi, B.A. in Art History, 2021
Savannah is currently a master'due south educatee in Art History at UNC- Chapel Colina. Prior to joining the programme, Savannah interned at the Grammy Museum in Cleveland, Mississippi. Broadly, she is interested in 15th & 16th century English court art. More than specifically, her enquiry consists of tracing the visual development of female person dazzler standards every bit seen through Medieval and early Renaissance portraiture.
Taylor Hunkins
Twitter: @HunkinsTaylor
Educational History: Dickinson Higher, BA in Fine art History, 2017
I am a PhD student studying Contemporary African Art, with a specific involvement in the intersection of art, visual culture, and design within Due east Africa. Currently, I am thinking most visual civilization in and around Nairobi, Kenya and how artists/art collectives employ the aesthetics of visual and material culture to construct their ain understandings of local, national, and international identity. As a subsection of this inquiry, I am fascinated with populist or 'popular' art in Kenya, its aesthetic make-up, and political ramifications. Prior to coming to UNC, I received my BA in Fine art History from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. During my time at Dickinson, I curated "Mafile Fen," an exhibition of Bamana sculpture and textile that explored the human relationship between operation and object in Bamana aesthetics. I have also held internships at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the National Museum of African Art in DC.
Kelsey D. Martin
Twitter: kelsey_d_martin
Educational History: University of New Mexico, MA Art History; University of Colorado, Bedrock, BA Sociology
Kelsey is an Art History Ph.D. Candidate and Caroline H. and Thomas S. Royster Fellow at UNC-CH. She was brash past Dr. Mary D. Sheriff until Dr. Sheriff's passing in the fall of 2016 and is currently brash by Dr. Melissa Hyde (University of Florida, Gainesville). Her fields of specialization rest in early modern Europe (though she often ventures to the 19th and early 20th centuries for diverse curatorial projects), with particular emphasis on eighteenth-century French art, works on paper, and women artists from 1450-1950. Her dissertation projection explores women artists' human relationship to printmaking in eighteenth-century France, including their roles every bit designers, engravers, and exhibitors of prints. Kelsey is the recipient of numerous awards, internships, and fellowships, including the 'Rare Prints Project' Internship at the National Gallery of Art, D.C. (2017), the Object-Based Teaching Fellowship at the Ackland Art Museum (2017-2018), and the Dedo and Barron Kidd McDermott Curatorial Internship for European Fine art at the Dallas Museum of Art (2018-2019). She served as the curatorial intern for the DMA's Women Artists in Europe from the Monarchy to Modernism too as the major traveling exhibition, Berthe Morisot, Woman Impressionist. Kelsey too curated Violence and Defiance, a works on newspaper show of German and Austrian Expressionist prints, which debuted at the DMA in August of 2019. For the 2019-2020 bookish twelvemonth, Kelsey will be in Paris conducting dissertation research thanks to the generous support of the UNC-CH Georges Lurcy Inquiry Fellowship.
Rachel E Mauney
Educational History: The University of N Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.A. in Art History with Honors, 2020
Rachel is currently a main's student in Art History. Her research focuses on the art and textile civilisation of late medieval and early modernistic Europe, with detail interests in religion and the artistic production within medieval convents. Rachel is also interested in the intersections of death, devotion, and celebration. Rachel has acted equally an intern in Docent Instruction at the N Carolina Museum of Art and, during her undergraduate tenure at UNC, equally Head Student guide at the Ackland Art Museum.
Julianne Miao
Educational History: University of Georgia, BA in Art History, 2019
Julianne is currently a primary's student at UNC-Chapel Loma working on American art. She has held internships at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Princeton University Fine art Museum, and nearly recently, she was the Walton Family unit and Ford Foundation Curatorial Fellow at the Reynolda Business firm Museum of American Fine art prior to coming to UNC. She was a recipient of the 2020-21 Weiss Urban Livability Fellowship and the 2021 Joan and Robert Huntley Fine art History Scholarship.
Samantha Moody
Educational History: University of Northward Florida, B.A. in Art History, 2020
Samantha is currently a master's student in Art History at UNC-Chapel Loma. Her main inquiry interests are in medieval art, specifically representations of the body and emotion in manuscripts and architecture from the Romanesque era. Her research has also extended into later on periods where she has explored the rabelaisian-like imagery in the works of Dutch Gilded Age painter Jan Steen, also as medievalism in pop culture. Samantha previously worked every bit a student docent for the Museum of Contemporary Fine art Jacksonville in Florida.
Brantly Moore
Website: https://unc.academia.edu/BrantlyHancockMoore
Educational History: University of South Carolina-Columbia, BA in Art History with minors in French and Hospitality, 2011; Leiden Academy, Netherlands, MA in Arts & Civilisation: Museums and Collections, 2015
Brantly is a fifth-year PhD candidate and former museum professional. Her dissertation, "Rummaging Drawers, Opening Doors: An Inquiry into Sixteenth-Century Collectors' Cabinets & their Contents," imaginatively reconstructs early modernistic persons' embodied experience of the Kunstkammer utilizing inventories, written accounts, and extant cabinets. These fiddling-studied technologies of brandish shaped and reflect early modern perceptions of and interactions with collection objects, fostering attitudes of play, curiosity, and piety. Boosted, thematic research interests extend from the medieval to modern periods and include the aesthetics of role and material; historical debates pitting the fine arts versus craft and the applied arts; the history of brandish, collections, and museums; the organization and product of knowledge in collections; and the visual and architectural culture of medieval pilgrimage. She has received grants from The UNC Graduate School (2020 and 21), Medieval and Early Modernistic Studies Program, UNC (2019), the Academy of Amsterdam (2018), and Leiden Academy (2014).
Aisha Marie Muhammad
Twitter: AishaMMPhD
Educational History: SUNY New Paltz, Available of Arts in Art History and History (Cum Laude), 2012; School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Primary of Arts in Modern and Contemporary Art History, Theory and Criticism, 2015
My enquiry examines the confluence of performance and video media in sub-Saharan Africa. I am interested in how "new media" interventions affect traditional and contemporary functioning rituals, including the development of iconography within established visual cultures. My writing and research primarily centers effectually W and Fundamental Africa; I take extensively written on Nigerian artist Jelili Atiku with my main's thesis entitled: "Humanity is 'In the Carmine': An Exam of Jelili Atiku's Performance Series". I am also interested in perceptions of the continent and blackness in the African Diaspora, and how contemporary media further affects visual symbols of Africa to its diaspora communities. Postcolonial theory is an important aspect of my enquiry. Prior to coming to UNC, I was an intern at the National Portrait Gallery, and Instructor in art history at Genesee Community College (Batavia, NY). I am currently a Humanities for Public Good Swain, working on a projection that involves increasing visitor engagement in the Due north Carolina Museum of Art's African galleries.
Rachel Ozerkevich is an Art History Ph.D. Candidate from Toronto, Canada, and she is advised by Dr. Daniel Sherman. She received her B.A. in Art History from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and her M.A. from UNC-Chapel Hill. Her Grand.A. thesis addressed athletic and nationalist symbolism in several of Robert Delaunay's paintings. Her dissertation, "Aestheticizing Sport: Representations of Athletes in France and Switzerland, 1870-1914," investigates dissimilar means that male and female athletes were imaged in popular media and in the fine arts betwixt the Franco-Prussian and Kickoff World Wars. During the 2019-2020 academic yr, she will be based in Lausanne, Switzerland, funded past the Werner P. Friederich Off-Campus Dissertation Fellowship.
Andrea C. Snow
CV: https://unc.academia.edu/AndreaSnow/CurriculumVitae
Twitter: @ginnun_ga_gap
Educational History: MA, Art History and Visual Culture, Southern Illinois University Carbondale (2016)
Andrea is a PhD candidate studying medieval art. Her dissertation, "A Linguistic communication of Snakes: Supernatural Objects in Pre-Christian Scandinavia," creates an art-historical framework for interpreting the relationships between the worldly and the divine in Old Norse material civilization. She has presented on this topic both nationally and internationally, and her research has been published in Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies (2020) every bit well as Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft (2021). While she is foremost a scholar of the medieval far n, Andrea'southward other inquiry interests include materiality and somaesthetics, the fragmentation of the body, the Global Middle Ages, and medievalism in popular culture. She is a regular book reviewer for Organized religion and the Arts, a contributor to Smarthistory (run across her article on Viking Art), and freelance course developer. Additionally, she has won several awards for her enquiry and delivery to students, including a educational activity honor from the Undergraduate Pupil Wedlock (2019). Her central aim is to create an inclusive, cross-disciplinary intellectual climate throughout her career.
Jake L. Swartz
Educational History: University of North Carolina Asheville, Available of Arts in Art History and Anthropology, 2019
I am a offset year Chief educatee and my inquiry concerns ideas of power, prestige, and the materiality of statuette and arm reliquaries of the Holy Roman Empire. I am too interested in the veneration of saints during Medieval Europe. I published my undergraduate thesis titled "Divine artistry: The ability of materiality and craft in statuette and arm reliquaries of the Holy Roman Empire." with the UNC Asheville Journal of Undergraduate Inquiry in May of 2019. I Presented this research at the at The Southeast Regional Undergraduate Research Scholarly and Creative Action Briefing in Milledgeville, GA during the leap of 2019. I also presented my research at The Spring Symposium on Undergraduate Research and Community Appointment in Asheville, North Carolina. During my fourth dimension between undergraduate and graduate school I worked closely with the North Carolina Museum of Art, in the Advancement Section. I programme on pursuing my main's degree in art history at the university of North Carolina and somewhen pursuing a Ph.D. specializing in Medieval fine art and architecture.
Rachel Sweeney
Educational History: University of Massachusetts Amherst, Dual Caste BA in Fine art History and History, Certificate in Medieval Studies, 2021
Rachel is a main'due south student in the section of Art History, and her main research interest is early medieval art of the British Isles. More precisely, she is interested in studying both insular art of the period and the history of early medieval art's reception and display during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is also interested in medieval revival movements, contemporary medievalism – in both its uses and abuses – and more broadly in decolonization and recontextualization of museum displays, art historiography, and art historical didactics. Her BA thesis, titled "Cultural Heritage on Display: A Comparative Analysis of British Insular Art and Mexica Fine art at the British Museum," compared the British Museum's brandish history of early English art and the art of the Mexica, and centered the ways in which the museum every bit a theater for imperialism continues to underserve its collections sourced from colonialist projects. She is interested in continuing to explore the intersections of the framing and display of early on medieval fine art in a modernistic context and the appropriation of medieval symbolism by gimmicky hate groups. Prior to coming to UNC, Rachel was a long-term curatorial assistant at the Memorial Hall Museum in Deerfield, Massachusetts, working primarily with local folk art and textiles and aiming to re-evaluate the museum'southward collections and exhibitions in order to highlight the historic Black and Indigenous presence in the region.
Eve Svoboda
Educational History: George Washington University, BA in Classical Studies and Fine art History, 2019; University of Pennsylvania, Postal service-Baccalaureate in Classical Languages, 2020
Eve is currently a 2d-year dual degree chief's student in art history and library science at UNC Chapel Hill. Her primary enquiry focus is Classical Art of Greece and Rome, and she is particularly interested in the connection between art and literature. She has held internships at the George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum, the American Academy in Rome, and most recently, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology. Eve has boosted interests in digital humanities, athenaeum, and special collections which she hopes to explore further through her coursework at SILS.
Hannah G. Williams
Educational History: University of North Carolina at Wilmington, BA, Art History and English Literature, Certificate in Professional Writing, 2018
University of Georgia, MA with Distinction, Art History, 2020
Hannah is a first-year PhD pupil specializing in the "Northern Renaissance." Working with Dr. Christoph Brachmann, she examines the religious function of devotional art made in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Northern Europe, with special emphasis on the influences of particular mystical practices. Her MA thesis, titled "'Do y'all have eyes only fail to encounter?': The Unfocused Gaze and the Devotio Moderna in Hans Memling's Devotional Diptych for Isabel la Católica," dealt with some of these problems and earned her a distinction from the University of Georgia.
Jennifer Wu
Educational History: Harvard University, Ed. Chiliad.; American University, M.A. in Art History
Jennifer is a Caroline H. and Thomas Due south. Royster Fellow and Ph.D. candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She specializes in the art of Europe, 1400-1700, and her areas of inquiry include epitome-text relations, gender studies, and material culture. In her dissertation, directed by Dr. Tania Cord, she explores metapaintings in early modern England. Jennifer's interests include the praxis of teaching in both classroom and museum spaces. She has served every bit the Samuel H. Kress Boyfriend for Museum Educational activity at the Ackland Fine art Museum. Currently, Jennifer is a Teaching Fellow and teacher of tape at UNC and has been teaching courses on Italian Renaissance art. She recently co-taught an interdisciplinary Royster Get-go-Twelvemonth Seminar, In the Mankind: The Synthetic Trunk in Medieval and Renaissance Europe. She co-authored a pedagogical essay based on this experience, "The Synthetic Body in a Disembodied Platform: Interdisciplinarity and Team Teaching in the Age of COVID-19," for the Sixteenth Century Due east-Journal, Early on Modern Classroom supplement, 2020. Jennifer is the recipient of fellowships and grants from the Paul Mellon Centre, the Yale Center for British Fine art, the Harvard Fine art Museums, and the Folger Plant (Folger Shakespeare Library).
Weixin Zhou is a Ph.D. student in Fine art History. She is originally from Shanghai, Prc, and completed her undergraduate studies at Shanghai Normal University before earning an M.A. Degree in Creative and Media Enterprises in Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies at The University of Warwick in the U.1000. Weixin's main research interest is Western modern art, specifically European modernism and art movements in nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is interested in the interdisciplinary approach of reflecting art and fine art history in the intellectual and cultural context.
Alexandra Ziegler is a doctoral student at UNC-Chapel Hill working with Christoph Brachmann. Her inquiry interests lie in the art and architecture of early on modern Europe, with particular attention paid to intersections of politics, gender, and faith inside portraiture. She is originally from Hawaii but has spent several years on the Westward Declension, where she received her BA from Humboldt Country University and MA from the University of Oregon. Her Principal's thesis, entitled "Divinity and Destiny: Marian Imagery in Rubens' Life of Marie de' Medici" investigates the construction of identity, femininity, and authority in the Medici Cycle. She continues to explore these issues in her current research, looking more than broadly at the tradition of saintly imagery in representations of female royals in the seventeenth century.
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