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Undergraduate Students-News, 2008-09

THE ART HISTORY PAPER PRIZE WINNERS FOR 2009 ARE:

First Place to Jennifer Levy for:
“The Victoria and Albert Museum's Senmurv Aquamanile” (written for Elizabeth Pastan, ARTHIST 475SWR: Medieval Treasury Objects, Fall 2008).
Jennifer is a junior, and an Art History major.

Reading Committee Comments:
Well-written, impressively researched, and clearly organized, Jennifer's study of the Senmurv Aquamanile in the Victoria and Albert Museum examines a medieval vessel from multiple points of view: its materiality, its making, its iconography, and even its humor or "wit."  Her study brings a medieval vessel to life; it is an exemplary piece of art historical scholarship.

Second Place to Laura Daly for:
“Enantiomorphic Chambers: Robert Smithson’s Reflection of Fundamental Scientific Concepts” (written for James Meyer, ARTHIST 480SWR: Postminimalism, Fall 2008).
Laura is a senior, and a joint Art History/Visual Arts major.

Reading Committee Comments:
Laura’s study of Robert Smithson’s first mature sculpture, the Enantiomorphic Chambers, is a fascinating reconstruction of the work’s formal structure and its historical connection to mid-20th century scientific research on enantiomorphy, a formal structure of two terms that are symmetrical but not superimposable that would greatly influence Smithson's subsequent work. Informed by Laura’s impressive knowledge of particle physics, her paper is illuminating and original.

OTHER NEWS OF GRADUATES

Anne Marie Gan interned in Summer 07 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in their objects conservation lab. In Fall 2007 she and Glennie Ferniany (major, graduated 2008) published an article in the Emory Undergraduate Research Journal about the conservation of Islamic pottery in the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory. Anne Marie was president of the Art History Club in 2007-2008. She was awarded a prestigious LUCE Scholarship, which provides stipends and internships for eighteen young Americans to live and work in Asia each year. She will be working in a museum and art conservation setting in Cambodia in 2008-2009.

CURRENT STUDENTS

Desi Gonzalez (major, 2010) was offered Summer 08 internships at both the Hirshhorn (D.C.) and Whitney (NYC) museums. She accepted a position in the Education Department at the Whitney.

Lily Jang (joint major with History, 2009) was awarded a Summer 08 internship by the Ethics and Servant Leadership program to work in the Art Services Department at the Carter Center.

Anni Pullagura (double major with Womens' Studies, 2010) was accepted into the Summer Institute in Art Museums Studies, Smith College, Summer 2008. She was awarded a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship for 2008-2010, which supports undergraduates who feel called to earn a doctorate and teach at the college level.

Robert Sorkin (joint major with Visual Arts, 2009) was awarded a Summer 2008 internship at Sotheby's/NYC, working in English Furniture and Decorations.

Atlee Tyree (major, 2010) received the first IDN (Institute for Developing Nations) Scholarship to be awarded to an Emory student in Art History. She will go to Senegal as a student with the CIEE study abroad program at Suffolk University-Dakar campus. The IDN grant is independent from CIEE, but will allow her to study a grassroots art and craft cooperative aimed at helping women artists achieve economic independence.

ALUMNI NEWS

Lisa Boutin (major, 2004), is currently conducting research for a dissertation on the material culture of the Gonzaga court in Mantua under the guidance of advisor Joanna Woods-Marsden at UCLA.

Sarah Jane Bruce (major, 1999; MA, Columbia, 2001) -- see story on NPR by Susan Stamberg (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19167839)

Paula Burleigh (major, 2006) has finished an MA in Art History at Case Western Reserve and will begin the PhD program at CUNY, Brooklyn in Fall 08.

Katherine (Kate) Chapman (major, 2007) is enrolled in the art history graduate program at SMU.

Shari Kashani (joint major with History, 2007), accepted at Courtauld/London and Brown University for graduate work, will begin at Courtauld Fall 08.

Ashley Miller (minor, Fr major, 2006), accepted to the graduate programs at Columbia, Courtauld/London, and Oxford/England, will begin at Oxford Fall 08.

Alexia Rostow (major, 2007), will enter UT/Austin as a graduate student in Art History Fall 08, to study Northern Renaissance Art with Jeffrey Chipps Smith.