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Current Graduate Students, 2008-09

Flora Brooke Anthony
Advisor: Prof. Gay Robins
Education: B.A., Anthropology and BIS, Middle Eastern Studies, Georgia State University; M.A., Art History, University of Memphis
Area of Interest: Egyptian Art

Katherine Baker
Advisor: Prof. Elizabeth Pastan
Education: B.A., Wellesley College (Art History and Psychology)
Major Area: Medieval Art
Minor Area: Italian Renaissance Art
Research Interests: Romanesque and Gothic architecture, with an emphasis on architectural planning and design process; methods for dating works of art; portraiture and monastic self-representation; pilgrimage art
Master’s Thesis: "The Appended Images of the Eadwine Psalter: A Reconsideration."
Current Research: Gothic architectural drawing and design process
Honors and Experience: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Fellowship, Emory University, 2002-2006; Andrew W. Mellon Summer Internship at the Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2004; Art History departmental grant for pre-dissertation research in Picardy, France, 2004; Research Assistant to C. Jean Campbell, Professor of Italian Renaissance Art at Emory, Summer 2005; Medieval Studies Roundtable Coordinator, Emory University, 2003-2006.
Courses Taught: “The Gothic Site” (Teaching Associate, Fall 2005); “The Formation of Islamic Art” (Teaching Assistant, Spring 2006); “Introduction to Art History: Prehistory to the Present” (Teaching Assistant, 2003-04).

Christy Balthis
Advisor: Prof. Bonna Wescoat
Area of Interest: Greek Art / Architecture

Erin L. Black
Advisor: Prof. Eric Varner
Area of Interest: Roman Art

Susan Blevins
Advisor: Prof. Eric Varner
Area of Interest: Roman Art

Sienna Brown
B.A., University of Chicago
Advisor: Prof. James Meyer
Major Area: Modern and Contemporary Art
Minor Area: African Art
Research Interests: Pop, Neo-Dada, printmaking
Master's Thesis :"Nothing Really:' Andy Warhol, Monochromes, and the Negative Dialectic
Current Research:The Lithographs of Robert Rauschenberg

Richard M. Busby
Advisor: Prof. Jean Campbell
Area of Interest: Renaissance Art

Jason Ciejka
Advisor: Prof. Sarah McPhee
Area of Interest: Baroque

Delinda Collier
MA, Arizona State University
Major Area: African
Minor Area: Modern/Contemporary
Research Interests: Modern and contemporary African art with an emphasis in southern Africa, globalism and spatial networks, psychoanalysis and modernism
Master’s Thesis: “Kingship Reveals Kinship: A Comparison of Two ‘South African’ Artworks: Samson Mudzunga’s Sukalifhalale Lake Fundudzi and William Kentridge’s Weighing…and Wanting.”
Dissertation: My dissertation will consider the production of a new gallery space in the União Nacional dos Artistas Plásticos (UNAP), a school that was established in Luanda in the early years of Angola’s independence from the Portuguese. The gallery, newly renovated under the auspices of the first Trienal de Luanda (2006-2007), is the latest medium in which Chokwe pictographs from Lunda in the north are materialized as symbols of the Angolan nation. Each of these recuperations of the Chokwe has a particular material support, both in the artistic medium and in the support of the nation-state. Forty years of independence and civil warring has intensified the need to stabilize the national infrastructure and to imagine national unity. I will analyze visual expressions of the Angolan nation exhibited in the Trienal and in the UNAP, focusing on the Angolan people’s persistently tenuous relationship to their physical environment.
Honors and Awards:
2004- present, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Doctoral Fellowship.
2005 Travel Award, Emory Art History Department and the African Studies Program for preliminary dissertation research to Luanda, Angola.
2002 Travel Award, Arizona State University Art History Department for preliminary thesis research to Johannesburg, South Africa
2000 BYU-Hawaii School of Art scholarship determined by competitive entries of visual art.
Presentations:
“Is Space a Medium? The First Trienal de Luanda and its Afrocommunist Genealogy.” Arizona State University School of Art Lecture, 2007.
“Syntax, the Photographic Index, and the Beginnings of Structuralism in the Surrealist Periodical VVV, 1942.” Emory University Art History Department Recruitment Symposium, 2007.
“Postmodernism and Art.” Docent Talk, ASU Art Museum, 2004.
“The Primitivism of Ana Mendieta.” First Annual Latino/a Art Conference, Arizona State University, 2003.
Publications:
“Forms of Appropriation.” Picasso and Africa Issue of Art South Africa, Winter 2006.
Translation of artist statements for the catalog “Blue Memory: Paintings by Tran Trong Vu.” ASU Art Museum, 2004.
Consultant for “The Long Day: Sculpture of Claudette Schreuders.” ASU Art Museum, 2004.
Courses Taught:
Teaching Associate, Arts of Eastern and Southern Africa, Emory University, Fall 2006.
Instructor, Art History 102, Arizona State University, Summer 2005.
Teaching Assistant, Art History 101 and 102, Emory University, 2004-2005.
Teaching Assistant, Art History 101, 102, Non-Western Art, and Roman Art, Arizona State University, 2001-2004.
 
Elizabeth Cummins
Advisor: Prof. Gay Robins
Areas of Interest: Egyptian art of the New Kingdom and Graeco-Roman periods,
Depictions of beds in the New Kingdom, Nubian art, Egyptian funerary art.
B.A. in English Literature and Classical Studies, Loyola University, New Orleans, 1999
Certificate of Museum Studies, Tufts University 2000
M.A. in Egyptian Art, University of Memphis, 2003

Helen M. Dudley
Advisor: Prof. Clark Poling
Area of Interest: 19th/20th century European

Catherine Fernandez
Advisor: Prof. Elizabeth Pastan
Area of Interest: Medieval Art

Clare P. Fitzgerald
Advisor: Prof. Gay Robins
Area of Interest: Egyptian Art

Melody Fitzgerald
Advisor: Prof. Jean Campbell
Area of Interest: Renaissance Art

Rachel M. Foulk
Advisors: Professors Varner and Wescoat
Area of Interest: Roman Art

Carla Funk
Advisor: Prof. Elizabeth Pastan
Area of Interest: Medieval art

Elizabeth Gardiner
Advisor: Prof. Eric Varner
Area of Interest: Roman Art

Olubukola Gbadegesin
Advisor: Prof. Sidney Kasfir
Education: B.A.Cornell University
Major Area: Contemporary African
Minor Area: African Diaspora
Research Interests: Transnational artists, portraiture
Master’s Thesis: "The intersection of modern art, anthropology, and international politics in colonial Nigeria, 1910-1914"
Dissertation: Modern Image-making in Lagos, Nigeria from 1880 to 1944
Current Research: Portraiture in Nigeria
Honors and Awards: Mellon Summer Fellowship, Michael C. Carlos Museum of Art
Presentations: CAA Paper: "The intersection of modern art, anthropology, and international politics in colonial Nigeria,1910-1914." Panel: Art and Politics in Africa: Africans and the Avant Garde
Publications: "A Rooted Reading of Race in the History of Art," Rev. of Colored Pictures: Race and Visual Representation, by Michael D. Harris. H-AfrArts (review author, June 2006);
Visual Arts of the Americas - Exhibit catalog, Georgetown University Art Collection, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., (contributor); Reality Reimagined: Photography Since 1950 - Exhibit catalog, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; (contributor, March 30-July 14, 2002)
Courses Taught: ARTHIST 101-102: Introduction to Art History (Teaching Assistant)
ARTHIST 355: African Art & Architecture Since 1500 (Teaching Associate)
Current Position: Ph.D. Candidate (ABD)

Jessica C. Gerschultz
Advisor: Prof. Sidney Kasfir
Education: B.A. Art History, James Madison University, 1998; M.A. Art Education, The University of New Mexico, 2004
Major Area: African art
Minor Area: Islamic art
Research Interests: the formation of modernism in Tunisia under the patronage of Habib Bourguiba; weaving and textiles in North and sub-Saharan Africa; the connectivity of Poro education, the sangama
tripod loom, and handwoven kpokpo cloth in Sierra Leone and Liberia in the early 20th century
Master’s Thesis: Healing Through Art: A Study of Cooperative Art Education in Kenya
Dissertation: Will be based in Tunisia
Current Research: a paper called, "Passage Through Space and Time in Sierra Leone and Liberia: Poro Initiation, the Sangama Loom, and the Kpopko Hammock"
Honors and Awards: Office of Graduate Studies 3% Scholarship, The University of New Mexico, 2003-2004
Presentations: M.A. thesis, "Healing Through Art: A Study of Cooperative Art Education in Kenya," the National Art Education Association Annual Conference, Boston, 2005
Courses Taught: T.A. Art History 101 & 102; "Arts of Eastern & Southern Africa," Fall 2007
Current Position: 2nd year graduate student

Mirjam Groentjes
Advisor: Prof. Walter Melion
Education: B.A.
Major Area: Late Medieval - early Renaissance art in the Netherlands
Minor Area: Roman art
Research Interests: Meditational and devotional art, interaction between the imagery and the viewer Master’s Thesis: Hoc est Corpus Meum; visual communion in late medieval images of the Mass of Saint Gregory
Current Research: Print series of the passion by Maarten van Heemskerck
Honors and Awards: Fulbright Scholarship
Current Position: International graduate student

Amanda Hellman
Advisor: Prof. Sidney Kasfir
Area of Interest: African Art

Melissa Joliffe
Advisor: Prof. Elizabeth Pastan
Area of Interest: Medieval Art

Kira K. Jones
Advisor: Prof. Eric Varner
Area of Interest: Roman Art

Rachel P. Kreiter
Advisor: Prof. Gay Robins
Area of Interest: Egyptian Art

Sarah R. Kyle
Advisor: Prof. Jean Campbell
Education:
M.A. Queen's University (2002)
B.A. Hons. University of Western Ontario (2000)
Major Area: Italian Renaissance
Minor Area: Modern European
Research Interests: Botanical treatises and the courtly culture of knowledge
Master’s Thesis: "Simone Martini's Vergil Frontispiece: A Study of Petrarchan Patronage"
Dissertation: "Botanical Imagery and the Perception of Nature in Manuscripts from the Carrara and Visconti Courts, 1360-1405"
Honors and Awards:
- Fall 2006: Emory University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Fund for International Graduate Research (FIGR), Grant for Dissertation Research
- Summer 2006: Emory University TATTO Fellow in Teaching and the Environment
- Spring 2006: Emory University Art History Department, Participant in “Exchanging Bodies of Knowledge” Graduate Student Exchange Program with the University of Leiden, the Netherlands
- Fall 2005: Emory University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Fund for International Graduate Research (FIGR), Grant for Pre-Dissertation Research
- 2002-2006: Entrance Fellowship, Emory University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
- 2000-2002: Ontario Graduate Scholarship Programme (2 annual awards)
- 2000: Entrance Fellowship, Queen’s University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
- 2000: Gold Medal Award for Excellence in English and Visual Arts, University of Western Ontario
Presentations:
- ‘“Truly a Kingly Shepherd’: Petrarchan Iconography in Simone Martini’s Vergil Frontispiece,” Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC) annual conference, Calgary, Alberta (November 2nd, 2002)
-  “The Maria Lactans in Trecento Art: Maternal Love from Conception to Redemption,” 21st Canadian Conference of Medieval Art Historians, Montréal, Québec (March 23rd, 2001)
Courses Taught:
- Summer 2005: Teaching Assistant for the Emory University Art History Summer Study Abroad Program, Modern and Contemporary Art: Paris and Nice 
- Spring 2005: Co-teacher with Professor C. Jean Campbell, Early Renaissance Art and Architecture (Arthist 259), Art History Department, Emory University
- 2002-2003: Teaching Assistant, Art History Survey (Arthist 101 and 102), fall and spring terms, Department of Art History, Emory University 
- 2001-2002: Teaching Assistant, Renaissance Poetry and Prose, fall and spring terms, Department of English, Queen’s University
- 2000-2001: Teaching Assistant, Modern and Contemporary Art Survey, fall and spring terms, Department of Art History, Queen’s University
Current Position: Ph.D. Candidate

Jennifer Lyons
Advisor: Prof. Elizabeth Pastan
Education: B.A. Art History and Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2004; M.A. Art History, Tufts University, 2007.
Major Area: Medieval Art
Minor Area: Renaissance Art 
Research Interests: Medieval sculpture and stained glass, the relationship between medieval miracle tales and their representation in medieval art, the representation of Jews in medieval art.
Master’s Thesis: “(Re)Reading Chartres Cathedral: The Console Figures of the North and South Transept Portal.”
Dissertation: Will examine the representation of the Theophilus legend in medieval sculpture, stained glass and manuscripts.
Current Research: A paper on the depiction of Synagoga at Chartres Cathedral.
Honors and Awards: Emory University Graduate Student Internship, High Museum of Art, Summer-Fall 2008; Arts and Sciences Fellowship in the Humanities, Emory University, 2007-2012; Dean’s Travel Fund Award, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Tufts University, 2006; Tuition Scholarship, Department of Art and Art History, Tufts University, 2004-2005.
Presentations: “Reading Between the Images: The Representation of Synagoga at Chartres Cathedral,” Sewanee Mediaeval Colloquium, April 3-4, 2009; Hermeneutical Variations on a Theme: The Representation of Synagoga at Chartres Cathedral, Vagantes Graduate Medieval Conference, Florida State University, March 5-7, 2009; “An Imperfect Concordance: Representations of Synagoga at Chartres Cathedral.” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 10-13, 2008;
“Ideological Messages to the Jews and Alternative Jewish Readings in the Visual Program of Chartres Cathedral.” International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK 9-        12 July 2007; “Reading in the Vernacular: The Function of the Console Figures at      Chartres Cathedral,” ICMA Sponsored Session: New Research on Medieval Sculpture, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 10-13, 2007; “The Good and Bad Women of Chartres Cathedral: A Feminist Reading of the Cathedral’s Sculptural Program,” Women's Studies Beyond the Classroom             Student Forum, Tufts University, March 30, 2007; “Negotiating Motherhood in the Le Livre d’images de Madame Marie (Paris,Bibliothèque Nationale, nouv. acq. fr. ms. 16251),” New England Medieval Studies Consortium, 24th Annual Graduate Student Conference: The Medieval World: From the Secular to the Spiritual, University of Connecticut, February 24, 2007.
“Reading in the Vernacular: Alterity in the Console Figures at Chartres Cathedral.”  Texas Medieval Association (TEMA) Annual Meeting, Baylor University, 6-7 October 2006 and Without Let or Hindrance’ Inclusion and its Subversion from the Medieval to the Modern, Lancaster University, UK, 7-9 July 2006. Courses Taught: Emory University: T.A. “Gothic Architecture,” Spring 2009, Art History 101 & 102; Massachusetts College of Art: Visiting Lecturer, “Early Islamic Art and Architecture (650-1250),” Fall 2006 and Summer 2007, “Later Islamic Art and Architecture (1250-Contemporary)” Spring 2007; Tufts University: T.A. Art History 101 & 102, Fall & Spring semesters 2006-2007.
Current Position: 2nd year graduate student.

Elizabeth Gardiner Lytle
Advisor: Prof. Eric Varner
Area of Interest: Roman Art

Joe Madura
Advisor: Prof. James Meyer
Education: B.A. with highest honors, Art History, DePaul University, Chicago, 2004; M.A. with distinction in thesis and coursework, History of Art, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, 2006
Major Area: Modern and Contemporary Art
Minor Area: Northern and Southern Renaissance Art
Research Interests: Queer Art, Minimal Art, Warhol
Master’s Thesis: “Sublimation and Subversion: Gay Post-Minimal Art”
Current Research: “On Queer Art, Minimal Form, and Relationality” presentation and a paper considering Warhol’s Polaroids, his “Ladies and Gentlemen” series, and the social dynamics of his production
Honors and Awards: Ailsa Mellon Bruce Predoctoral Fellowship for Historians of American Art to Travel Abroad, CASVA, 2009; “Out There Arts” teaching grant, Emory University, 2008; Andrew W. Mellon Summer Internship, Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2008; Arts and Sciences Fellowship, Emory University, 2007-12; Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellowship, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2007; Courtauld Essay Award for highest marked M.A. thesis, Courtauld Institute of Art, 2006; Lenore Pressman Art History Paper Prize, DePaul University Art Department, 2004.
Presentations: “On Queer Art, Minimal Form, and Relationality,” Queer Caucus, College Art Association Conference, Chicago, February 2010; “‘Who’s going to help me self-destruct?’: Kalup Linzy’s Queer Life Narratives,” Queer Lives Remodelled Conference, King’s College, University of London, June 2009; “Sex, Gender, and Race in Andy Warhol’s Photography” presentation for Studies in Sexualities Program, Emory University, December 2008; “La beauté est dans la rue: Paris May ’68 Posters” (curatorial project), 1968/2008: An Event, Emory University Institute of Liberal Arts, 2008; “Food for Thought” public talk on “Andy Warhol’s Polaroid Portraits,” Michael C. Carlos Museum, Atlanta, September 2008; “Ma Liuming: Performance, Document, Object,” University of Southern California Graduate Student Symposium, Los Angeles, March 2008; “Liar Lies: Performance for the Camera” (curatorial project), DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, 2007; “Ma Liuming and the Commodification of Performance,” World Art Postgraduate Symposium, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, May 2006
Courses Taught: Teaching Associate, “The Return of the Sixties in Contemporary Art,” Art History 369, Fall 2008; Teaching Assistant, Art History 101 and 102, Fall 2007-Spring 2008
Current Position: 3rd year graduate student

Jacquelyn McCollum
Advisor: Professor Eric Varner
Area of Interest: Roman Art

Alexandre F. Miller
Advisor: Prof. Eric Varner
Area of Interest: Roman Art

Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi
Advisor: Prof. Sidney Kasfir
Education: B.A. Fine and Applied Arts, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 2001; Postgraduate Diploma in Museum and Heritage Studies, University of Western Cape, South Africa, 2006.
Major Area: African art
Minor Area: African Diaspora art
Research Interests:
The pan-national and pan-African bases for transformation in contemporary African art which are foregrounded in the art biennales organized in Africa.
Proposed Dissertation topic:
Art Biennales, Global Art World and Transformations in Contemporary African Art: a Case Study of Two Biennales in West Africa 1992-2006
Honors and Awards:
Distinction, African Program in Museum and Heritage Studies, University of Western Cape, Western Cape, South Africa.
Award for the Over-all Best Graduating Student, Department of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 1999/2000 Session, October 2002
Current Position: 2nd year graduate student

Carrie Przybilla
Advisor: Professor James Meyer
Area of Interest: Contemporary & Early 20th century European Art

Amanda Rogers
Advisor: Prof. Sidney Kasfir
Education: B.F.A. History of Art, University of Kansas (May 2005)
Research Interests: Islamic Africa, body adornment, women’s folk art, art and post-colonial politics (in the Islamic and Arab worlds)
Honors and Awards: U.S. Fulbright Fellowship, Morocco (2005-2006); J. Michael Young Research Grant, University of Kansas (Summer 2004); Daniel MacMorris Award, University of Kansas (May 2004); Rubin Award, University of Kansas (May 2004); Ray and Elizabeth Goetz Award, University of Kansas (May 2004); Thomas Klaverkamp Award, University of Kansas (May 2004)
Presentations: “The Gnawa: Slavery, Sub-Saharan Identity and Legitimizing Islam,” Sufi Arts, Rituals, and Performance in Africa; University of Kansas , (February 22- 25th, 2007); “From the Odalisque to Abu-Ghraib: A Visual History of Culture War,” Morocco in Western Art Symposium (International Fulbright Alumni Association: Marrakech, Morocco), (November 7, 2006); “Blood, Art and Sexuality: Biological Underpinnings and Social Function of a Body Adornment,” Thirteenth Annual Maghrebi Area Studies Symposium (Moroccan-American Commission for Cultural Exchange: Rabat, Morocco), (March 17, 2006); “‘Liberalization’ of the Female Body: Media, Fashion and ‘Corporeal Colonialism’” The Gender Question in Human Development in Morocco (Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University: Fes, Morocco), (April 3, 2006); “Moroccan Henna and the Socialization of Gender Roles” Second International Conference on Minorities and Minority Literatures (Mohamed I University: Oujda, Morocco), (March 10, 2006)
Current Position: First year graduate student, working towards the PhD (major field: African, minor fields: Egyptian/Islamic)

Sarahh E. M. Scher
Advisor: Professor Rebecca Stone
Education:
B.F.A., Washington University (Communication Arts)
M.F.A., New Mexico State University (Printmaking)
M.A., New Mexico State University (Art History)
Major Area: Ancient Art of the Andes; interest in ceramic and textile art and how those arts reflect state construction of status, religious organization, and gender roles.
Minor Area: Colonial Peruvian Art; interest in religious paintings and their relationship to Spanish and religious image theories.
Master’s Thesis: Moche ‘Erotic’ Art: Fertility and Ritual in Pre-Columbian Peru
Honors and Awards: 2006 Latin American and Caribbean Studies Summer Field Research Fellowship; 2005 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship to study Quichua language in Ecuador.
Presentations: “The Persistence of Power: The Central Andean Mesa and Ancient Moche Art,” 52 nd International Congress of Americanists, Sevilla, Spain, 2006.

Andrea Shanley
Advisor: Prof. Gay Robins
Education: B.A. Psychology, Bucknell University, 2003; M.A. Egyptian Art and Archaeology, University of Memphis, 2007
Major Area: Egyptian art
Minor Area: Roman art
Research Interests: Material culture and technology of Egypt, the Near East, and the ancient Mediterranean; Egyptian texts; ancient trade
Master’s Thesis: A Unique Royal Head Revisited
Dissertation: TBA
Current Research: Mention of glass and faience in Egyptian and Hittite texts; representations of technology in Egyptian tombs and art
Honors and Awards: Art History Master's thesis award, University of Memphis, 2007; Art History graduate research award, University of Memphis, 2006; J.W. Brittan Fellow in Egyptology, University of Memphis, 2006-2007
Presentations: M.A. thesis, "A Unique Royal Head Revisited", 58th Annual Meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt, 2007
Courses Taught: T.A. Art History 101 & 102
Current Position: 1st year PhD student

Jennifer E. Siegler
Advisor: Prof. Rebecca Stone
Area of Interest: Art of the Ancient Americas

Amy Sowder
Advisor: Professor Bonna D. Wescoat
Education: B.A summa cum laude., Art History, History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2001; M.A. Art History, Emory University 2004.
Major Area: Greek Art and Archaeology
Minor Area: Egyptian Art
Master's Thesis: The Decorated Ceiling from the Ionic Porch, Sanctuary of the Great Gods, Samothrace
Dissertation: Greek Bronze Hydriai
Honors and Awards:
Bothmer Fellowship, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2007-2008)
Samuel Kress Fellowship, American School of Classical Studies at Athens (2006-2007)
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Fellowship, Emory University (2006-2007)
Dean's Teaching Fellowship, Emory  University (2005-2006)
Regular Member, American School of Classical Studies at Athens (2004-2005)
Pre-Dissertation travel grant, Fund for International Graduate Research, Emory University (2004-2005)
Lyman summer travel grant, Art History Department, Emory University (2004) 
Summer Session participant, American School of Classical Studies at Athens (2003)
Art History departmental summer travel funding, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Emory University (2002-2005)
Art History departmental fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Emory University (2001-2005)
Presentations:
"Greek Bronze Hydriai: Form, Functions, and Value", American School of Classical Studies at Athens (2007)
"Images of Power: Early Archaic Greek Bronze Hydriai" 108th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, San Diego, CA (2007)
"Beasts in Bronze: New Aquisitions in the Michael C. Carlos Museum", "Food for Thought" lecture, Emory University (2006)
"The Decorated Ceiling from the Ionic Porch, Sanctuary of the Great Gods, Samothrace", 107th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Montreal, Quebec (2006)
Publications: "The Decorated Ceiling of the Ionic Porch" in B.D. Wescoat, Samothrace 9: The Eastern Hill (forthcoming)
Courses Taught:
Art History 329: The Fires of Hephaistos: Greek Bronze Sculpture and Vases (Instructor, Emory University, 2006)
Art History 259: Greek Art and the Classical Tradition (Teaching Associate, Emory University, 2004)
Art History 101-102: Art History from Pre-history to the Present (Teaching Assistant, Emory University, 2002-2003)
Current Position: Ph.D. candidate

Devon Stewart
Advisor: Prof. Eric Varner
Area of Interest: Roman Art

Emily Taub
Advisor: Professor James Meyer
Education:
B.A., Art History; B.F.A., Design (both from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1997)
M.A. Art History, Emory University, 2004
Major Area: Modern and Contemporary
Minor Area: 19th Century European
Master’s Thesis: Between the Markers: Barry Le Va's Early Aesthetic
Dissertation: On Site-Specificity: A Genealogy
Honors and Awards: Smithsonian Institution Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Smithsonian American Art Museum and Archives of American Art (2006-2007); Mellon Dissertation Seminar Fellowship, Emory University (2006); Dean's Teaching Fellowship, Emory University (2005-2006); American Art Dissertation Research Award, Art History Department, Emory University (2005); Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Fellowship, Emory University (2004-2005); Travel Grant, Art History Department, Emory University (2001, 2002, 2006
Presentations: "On Site-Specificity: A Prelude," Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution (2006); "‘Sculpture as Place’: The Development of Installation in American Art of the 1960s," Graduate Student Symposium, Emory University (2006)
Publications: “Accumulated Vision, Barry Le Va,” Artforum 43:5 (January 2005): 64. [Exhibition preview of Le Va show at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia.]; “Robert Morris,” Artforum 43:5 (January 2005): 92. [Exhibition preview of Morris show at Centro per l’arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy.]; Exhibition wall texts, Art of the Ancient Americas permanent collection, Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2002.
Courses Taught: Sculpture in the Expanded Field: 1965-1975 (Spring 2006); Contemporary Visual Arts (co-taught Fall 2003); Modern and Contemporary Art History, Study Abroad in Paris and Nice (teaching assistant Summer 2002); Art and Architecture from Prehistory to the Renaissance (teaching assistant Fall 2001, Fall 2004) ;Art and Architecture from Renaissance to the Present (teaching assistant Spring 2002)
Current Position: PhD Candidate

Meghan E. Tierney
Advisor: Prof. Rebecca Stone
Area of Interest: Art of the Ancient Americas

John A. Tyson
Advisor: Professor James Meyer
Area of Interest: Modern and ContemporaryArt

Laura M. Wingfield
Advisor: Prof. Rebecca Stone
Education
A.B., Art History/History, Duke University
M.A.T., Secondary History, Emory University
M.A., Art History, Emory University
Major Area: Art of the Ancient Americas
Minor Area: Art of the Italian Renaissance
Research Interests: Gender studies, ceramics, prehistoric figures, Chibchan culture, chiefdom development, museology, ethics of collecting
Master’s Thesis: Latin American Nationalist Narratives in Transition: Museums of Mexico, Guatemala, and Costa Rica
Dissertation: Possible Gender Roles in Ancient Chiefly Societies of Costa Rica and Nicaragua: A Study of Greater Nicoyan Ceramic Figures c. 500 BCE-800 CE
Current Research: Chibchan cultures of lower Central America
Honors and Awards:
- Travel Grant for Conference paper Presentation, Leiden University, The Netherlands, June 13-15, 2007.
- ORDER (On Recent Discoveries of Emory Researchers) Teaching Fellowship, Emory University, June 2007 - May 2008.
- Graduate Program Assistant Fellowship, Office for Undergraduate Education (OUE), Emory University, Atlanta, GA, June 2006-May 2007
- Travel Grant for Conference Paper Presentation, Art History Department, Emory University, November 11-14, 2006
- Travel Grant for Conference Paper Presentation, Art History Department, Emory University, July 17-21, 2006
- Frederick and Jan Mayer Fellowship for the Study of Pre-Columbian Art, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, January 2004-January 2006
- Grant for Dissertation Research, Art History Department, Emory University, January-February 2005
- Grant for Dissertation Research, Art History Department, Emory University, November 2004
- Fellowship with Graduate Assistantship, Art History Department, Emory University, 1999-2003
- Theory Practice Learning Initiative Mini-grant, Emory College, Fall 2003
- Jan and Frederick Mayer Foundation Grant, 2002-2003
- U.S. Department of Education Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, Summer 2002
- Mini-grant for Pre-Dissertation Research, Art History Department, Emory University, March 2002
- Grant for Thesis and Pre-Dissertation Research, Art History Dept., Emory University, August 2001
- Emory College Institute for Teaching Computer Training Workshop, Emory University, June 2001
- University Education Taskforce Member, Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Spring 2001
- “Vernacular Modernities” Fellowship, Emory University, May 2000-August 2001
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Conservation Internship, Michael C. Carlos Museum, Summer 2000
- Dean’s List, Duke University, 1991 and 1993
Presentations:
- “Chibchan Cultural Continuity in Greater Nicoya: A Case Study of Figural Art, c. 800 BCE-1500 CE.” June 14, 2007, Leiden University, The Netherlands. Chibchan Specialist Seminar paper presentation.
- “Un caso para la continuadad de la cultura Chibchan en Gran Nicoya por mas de dos milenios.” March 8, 2007, University of Costa Rica. Lecture to Dr. Silvia Salgado’s archaeology students.
- “An Ethical Approach to the Study of Unprovenienced Objects: Nicoyan Shoe Pots/Womb Urns,” February 9, 2007, Art History Department, Emory University. Lecture to Department recruits
- “Introduction to the Art and Cultures of Ancient Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama,” January 22, 2007, Carlos Museum. Workshop for docents utilizing the Art of the Ancient Americas collection
- “An Approach to the Study of Unprovenienced Objects: Nicoyan Shoe Pots/Womb Urns,” November 12, 2006, 39 th Annual Chacmool Archaeological Association Conference, University of Calgary, Canada
- “Female Politico-Religious Leaders in the Chibchan World, Then and Now,” July 19, 2006, International Congress of Americanists Symposium, Seville, Spain
- “Introduction to the Art and Cultures of Ancient Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama,” June 6, 2006, Carlos Museum. Workshop for teachers utilizing the Art of the Ancient Americas collection
- "Brief Introduction to Ancient Costa Rican and Nicaraguan Art at the Denver Art Museum," June 29 and July 1, 2005, Denver Art Museum. "Nooner" public tours
"Introduction to Ancient Costa Rica and Nicaragua at the Denver Art Museum," March 7, 2005, Denver Art Museum. Docent training
- “Ceramics of Costa Rica: From Typologies to Interpretations,” November 14, 2004, Denver Art Museum. Lecture/tour of the pre-Columbian art galleries of the Denver Art Museum for John Hoopes' class on "Archaeological Ceramics" from the University of Kansas
“Two Millennia of Powerful Women in the Art of Ancient Costa Rica and Nicaragua: Greater Nicoyan Ceramic Effigies c. 500 BCE – 1500 CE,” September 29, 2004, Denver Art Museum. Lecture/tour of the pre-Columbian art galleries of the Denver Art Museum for Alianza de las Artes Americanas, the pre-Columbian support group of the Museum
-“Ceramics of the Ancient Americas: Technique, Form, Function, Context,” March 31, 2004, Denver Art Museum. Workshop for Arapahoe Community College ceramics classes
- “An Articulated Female Figure from Formative Mesoamerica in the Thibadeau Collection,” December 2, 2003, Carlos Museum. Food for Thought lunchtime gallery talk
- “The Role of Women in the Ancient Americas,” October 15, 2003, Carlos Museum. Workshop for teachers utilizing the Art of the Ancient Americas collection
- “Introduction to the Art of the Ancient Americas in the Thibadeau Collection,” September 17, 2003, Carlos Museum. Training for new docents
- “Ancient Americans’ Agricultural Advances in the Context of the Amerindian Worldview,” September 4, 2003, Carlos Museum. Lecture/tour of the ancient American galleries of the Carlos Museum for Emory’s Latin American/Caribbean Studies 101 class
- “The Art of Communication in the Pre-Columbian World,” April 17, 2003, Carlos Museum. Tour of the recently installed Art of the Ancient Americas galleries for the Museum’s volunteer corps
- “Ancient Americas Family Festiva,” March 23, 2003, Carlos Museum. Helped organize family festival events, such as “Mesoamerican Horoscopes,” “Central American Body Decoration,” “Pre-Columbian Metalwork,” including writing texts for handouts and providing Aztec and Maya horoscopes to museum visitors
- “The Art of Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica in the Thibadeau Collection,” February 26, 2003, Carlos Museum. Tour of the Art of the Ancient Americas galleries for Emory University’s Spanish 300 class
- “Representing the Ancient American Indigenous Past Out of Context: The National Museums of Mexico, Guatemala, and Costa Rica,” February 7, 2003. The University of Arizona’s Fourteenth Annual Art History Graduate Student Symposium “Out of Context,” Tucson, Arizona
- “The Art of Pre-Hispanic South America in the Thibadeau Collection,” October 30, 2002, Carlos Museum. Tour of the newly installed Art of the Ancient Americas galleries for Emory University’s Spanish 301 class
- “Avian Imagery in the Art of Ancient Costa Rica and Nicaragua from the Thibadeau Collection” September 24, 2002, Carlos Museum. Food for Thought lunchtime gallery talk
- “The Art of Ancient Costa Rica and Nicaragua from the Thibadeau Collectio,” September 23, 2002, Carlos Museum. Docent training
“Cyclical Time and Shamanism in Ancient American Cultures,” September 19, 2002, Carlos Museum. Lecture/tour of the Mesoamerican and Central American galleries of the Carlos Museum for Emory’s Latin American/Caribbean Studies 101 class
-“Colombian Burial Urns in the Thibadeau Collection,” April 2, 2002, Carlos Museum. Food for Thought lunchtime gallery talk
- “Jaguar Imagery in the Thibadeau Collection,” November 28, 2000, Carlos Museum. Food for Thought lunchtime gallery talk
- “The Olmec,” “The Toltec,” “Mexican Art after the Aztecs,” “Ancient Southern Guatemala and Its Current Maya Populations,”and “A Tour of the Carlos Museum’s Ancient Americas Collection,” Fall/Spring 2000/2001. Lectures given to various classes on the Emory campus and a DeKalb County, Georgia high school as part of the Vernacular Modernities Outreach Program
- “Curators and Conservators Working Together on Ancient American Objects at MCCM,” October 19, 2000, Carlos Museum. Class co-taught with then Head Conservator Thérèse O’Gorman
- “Tears of the Moon: Ancient American Precious Metals from the Permanent Collection,” November 9, 1996, Carlos Museum. Interactive gallery tour for a group of elementary students followed by students’ hands-on replication of the objects on view
- “A Female Effigy Vessel from Zaïre,” April 16, 1996, Carlos Museum. Food for Thought lunchtime gallery talk
- “River of Gold: Precolumbian Treasures from Sitio Conte,” October 28, 1994, Carlos Museum. Tour of travelling exhibition for the Atlanta Ancient Americas Society
- “River of Gold: Precolumbian Treasures from Sitio Conte and the Michael C. Carlos Museum,” September 24, 1994, Carlos Museum. Slide lecture and tour of travelling exhibition and permanent collection for the Emory University Alumni Association
- “The Art of Nicholas Roerich from the Balthazar Bolling Collection: The Search for Shambhala,” September 29 and October 26, 1993, Oglethorpe University Museum. Lecture with Carl Griffin, Chair of the Humanities Department, DeKalb College, Atlanta, GA
Courses Taught: Art History 225: Introduction to Ancient Mesoamerican Art and Architecture
Current Position: Ph.D. Candidate (ABD), Art History Department, ORDER Teacher-Scholar, and Art History Department Lecturer and Instructor.