In April 2024, PhD candidate Hannah Slater traveled to Chicago to attend the 50th Annual Midwest Art History Society conference. Hannah presented research from her dissertation on the artist…
In April, Keyu Yan traveled to Houston to conduct dissertation research. He visited the exhibition titled “Xu Bing: Word Alchemy” at the Asia Society Texas Center. Xu Bing is one of the key…
In February 2024, PhD candidate Karin Flora was able to travel to Italy to do research for her dissertation, “The Grisaille Image: Encounters Between Art and Matter.” In her time in Italy, she was…
In March 2024, PhD candidate Dareen Hussein traveled to Boston, Massachusetts, to attend the 2024 Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference. She presented her paper “Resurrecting the ‘Songs…
Over spring break, PhD student Peter Smyth traveled to NYC to see an important exhibition at the Met, “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism.” While there, they also visited the…
PhD Candidate Lauren Caskey recounts her recent trip to Chicago to conduct dissertation research:
"As I entered the Contemporary Wing at the Art Institute of Chicago, I saw Alma Thomas…
PhD Candidate Allie Mickle presented her paper, "Aesthetic Kitsch as Global Commodity in Mika Rottenberg's Cosmic Generator" at this year's College Art Association conference in Chicago, Illinois…
In December 2023, PhD candidate Dareen Hussein traveled to France to conduct archival research for her dissertation. In Paris, she compiled research on the Mouvement des travailleurs arabes (Arab…
This winter, PhD student Asia Adomanis travelled to Hong Kong and Taipei to conduct dissertation research. Asia spent time studying library and archival materials related to the artists Tseng Yuho…
