Graduate Student News
Graduate Students: Selected Recent Publications, Conference Presentations, and Awards (Nov 2024 to Nov 2025)
Asia Adomanis completed an article entitled “Strategic Hybridity and the (In)scrutable in Seong Moy's Calligraphic Abstractions,” which will appear in the Archives of American Art Journal 65, no. 1, Spring 2026.
Asia Adomanis published an essay on Seong Moy in 150 Stories: Lives of the Artists at the League, ed. Stephanie Cassidy (New York: Art Students League, 2025).
Asia Adomanis reviewed Imperial Stewards: Chinese Art and the Making of America’s Pacific Century, which will appear in the Journal of Asian American Studies 29, no. 1 (2026).
Asia Adomanis presented “National Identity and the Aesthetics of (Anti-)Militarism in the Art and Writing of Yun Gee, 1937-1945” at the Space Between Society Conference: Peace and Conflict in the Space Between in May 2025.
Schuyler Black-Seitz presented “Dam Democracy: TVA Architecture and Design at MoMA and Labor Politics in the New Deal” at the College Art Association 2025 Annual Conference in New York City.
Casey Carsel presented the solo exhibition “I can’t shake the stranger out of you” at CoCA Centre of Contemporary Art Toi Moroki in Christchurch, New Zealand, in August 2025.
Casey Carsel completed a Folger Shakespeare Library Research Fellowship in Washington, D.C., in February 2025.
Tony Del Aversano presented “Queering Ephemeral Bodies: Visual Representations of Angels in Trecento Italian Painting” at the Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies in Durham, NC in April, 2025.
Tony Del Aversano presented “From Angel to Man: The Archangel Michael in Medieval and Early Modern Art” at the Queer Palimpsests: Rewriting Medieval Art History Symposium at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA in April 2025.
Tony Del Aversano published a book review on Simone Martini in Orvieto (New Haven: Yale University Press) in The Sixteenth Century Journal, Volume 55, Number 3-4, Fall/Winter 2024, a publication of the University of Chicago Press.
Cole Graham participated in a roundtable at the Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC) 2025.
Bowie Bo Gyung Kim published an interview article with artist Muhammad Toukhy in Impulse, an online art magazine.
Mia Kivel published a multi-book review entitled “Artists, Institutions, and Agitators in Midcentury Japan,” in Volume 48, Issue 1 of Art History, a publication of Oxford University Press.
Mia Kivel presented “From the Kotan to the Gallery: A Re-evaluation of Ainu ‘Tourist Art’” at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference in Columbus, Ohio in March, 2025.
Mia Kivel presented “Naming and Knowing the Land in Yaun-Moshir” at the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs in Columbus, Ohio in March, 2025.
Michiko Kubota presented “Kitazawa Rakuten’s ‘Jiji Manga’: Jyogakusei Counterculture Rebels Against Imperial Gender Norms and Language Politics” as part of a four-part panel titled "Visualizing Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan” at the Midwestern Conference on Asian Affairs in Columbus, Ohio in October, 2025.
April Riddle presented “Navigating the Futility of D.I.Y. Individualism in Michael Smith's Art Game” at the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Annual Conference in Corvallis, Oregon, in August 2025.
April Riddle presented “Temporal Displacements: Playing the Financialized Environment” at ASAP/16 (the Association for the Study of Arts of the Present’s annual conference) in Houston in October 2025.
April Riddle received the 2025 Summer Graduate Research Fellowship by the Umwelt Center for Germanic Studies and Environmental Humanities.
Christy Sher received the 2025 Critical Language Scholarship by the U.S. Department of State.
Christy Sher received a research fellowship for the 2025–26 academic year at the Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine.
Christy Sher presented “Visualizing the Maternal Body: Pregnancy and Sexual Education in Utagawa Yoshitora’s Fubu no on o shiru zu (Realize One’s Parental Love, 1880)” as part of the panel “Visualizing Life and Death in East Asia” at the 74th Annual Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, held in Columbus, Ohio, in October 2025.
Christy Sher presented “Procreative Passions: Visualizing Love, Desire, and Lineage in Edo-Period Japanese Erotica” at the 51st Annual Cleveland Symposium, “Love and Desire in the Visual Arts,” at the Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland, Ohio, in November 2025.
Emilela Thomas-Adams was awarded a Getty Residential Fellowship for the 2025-26 academy year.
Emilela Thomas-Adams co-lead a workshop, “Medieval Art History Tomorrow: A Whiteboard Session” at the International Congress of Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan in May 2025.
Margaret Wilson presented “Painting Faces and Building Spaces: Convent Community in Lilly Library MS Ricketts 198” at the International Medieval Society - Paris Annual Conference in May 2025.