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PhD Student Tony Del Aversano Travels to Italy for Dissertation Research
In January, PhD student Tony Del Aversano traveled to Florence, Italy to see the exhibition Fra Angelico, a retrospective on the renowned fifteenth-century Italian artist. There, he saw art works…
PhD Candidate Maggie Wilson Visits The Netherlands and Belgium for Dissertation Research
At the start of January, PhD candidate Maggie Wilson traveled to the Netherlands and Belgium in order to visit collections related to her dissertation, “Making and Breaking Enclosure: the Movement of…
PhD Candidate Asia Adomanis Conducts Research in Washington, D.C., and New York
This semester, PhD candidate Asia Adomanis traveled to Washington, D.C., and New York to conduct dissertation research on the artist Tseng Yuho. Asia visited the Smithsonian Institute Archives in D.C…
PhD Candidate Dareen Hussein Presents at the 2025 European Network of Cinema and Media Studies Conference
In June 2025, PhD candidate Dareen Hussein presented a paper entitled "Les deux écrans and the Shaping of Contemporary Arab Women's Film Criticism" at the 2025 European Network of Cinema and Media…
PhD Student Christy Sher Attends the Kuzushiji Workshop at the University of Chicago
Ph.D. student Christy Sher attended the Kuzushiji workshop at the University of Chicago this past weekend (October 3-4), led by Professor Emeritus Takahashi Akinori of the Graduate School of Arts and…
PhD Candidate Cole J. Graham Participates in Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC) Roundtable
Last Thursday, September 18th, PhD Candidate Cole J. Graham participated in a roundtable made up of comics scholars during Cartoon Crossroads Columbus. Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC) is an annual…
PhD Candidate Mia Kivel Travels to Japan this August
History of Art PhD Candidate Mia Kivel traveled to Japan this August to conduct research for her upcoming colloquium and dissertation (tentatively titled Anti-Aphasic Art in Contemporary Ainu-Moshir)…
PhD Student Michiko Kubota Travels to Japan for the Summer
PhD Student Michiko Kubota traveled to Japan from July through August to conduct research on postwar calligraphy. Supported by the Murnane Travel Scholarship, Start-up Departmental Research Funds,…
PhD Student Maika Kagawa Bahr Travels to Tokyo to Conduct Research
In June of 2025, PhD student Maika Kagawa Bahr was able to travel to Tokyo to conduct research for her dissertation. Supported by the Graduate Research Small Grants Program, Maika’s…