Current MA and PhD Students:
Selected Publications and Presentations
Asia Adomanis and Emma Laube co-published (with a third researcher, Paige Dempsey) a learning guide for the Wexner Center’s Department of Learning and Public Practice for the exhibition, Jacqueline Humphries: jHΩ1:), in September 2021.
Dareen Hussein co-curated with Layla Muchnik-Benali the film series Signs of Remembering: Women’s Resistance in Middle Eastern and North African Documentaries at the Wexner Center for the Arts in March 2021. She also presented “Reversing the Gaze: Image, Archive, and Sounds of Resistance in Assia Djebar’s La Zerda et les chants de l’oubli” at the Mmenomic Aesthetics: Memory and Trauma in Art: 11th Annual Rutgers Art History Graduate Student Symposium in April 2021.
Stephanie Kang presented “The Artist as Avatar: Redefining Materiality through LaTurbo Avedon” at the Association for Art History Conference in April 2021 and moderated the artist panel “Celebrating Hanzine” at LA Artcore in June 2021.
Caroline Koncz presented “The Price of Preserving Chastity and Paralyzing Masculinity in Jacopo Bassano’s Diana and Actaeon” at the Renaissance Society of America conference in April of 2021; and “Adultery, Prostitution, and Love Magic: A Study of Palma’s Venuses,” at the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference in October 2021.
Yifan Li presented “Water Control, Mao Cult, and Mass Sport: Picturing Mao Zedong’s Yangzi River Swims” in the panel “Challenging and Mediating: Art and Society in the People’s Republic of China” at the AAS-in-Asia Conference in September 2020; “Collecting ‘Traditions’ in Modern China: Lu Xun and Beiping Letter Papers” at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in April 2021; and “The Lion Grove Garden: History, Ownership, and Legacy” at the Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta (Jiangnan) workshop organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art in September 2021.
Allie Mickle presented “‘Let the Hills be Hills and the Rivers be Rivers’: Implications of a Changing Environment in Yang Yongliang’s Digital Landscapes” at the SECAC annual conference (formerly the Southeastern College Art Conference), December 2020.
Alanna Radlo-Dzur published (with several co-authors) “The Tira of Don Martín: A Living Nahua Chronicle” in Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture 3 (2021). She also presented “Imagining Marietta: Discourses of Archaeology and Identity,” in “The Americans before 1620: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Indigenous Cultures, Colonialism, and Slavery,” an annual symposium of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, at The Ohio State University in January 2020; and delivered “Plutarchian Nahuas: Laconophilia in two sixteenth-century Mexican manuscripts,” in the session “Revelations from the Florentine Codex Initiative,” at the American Society of Ethnohistory annual meeting at Duke University in 2021.
Anna Talarico and Dareen Hussein co-curated a two-part video exhibition, In/Stability, at the Wexner Center for the Arts.
Maggie Wilson presented “The Ebstorf Lectern Cloth as Cypher: Interpreting the Late Medieval Nun’s Embodied Experience of Convent Architecture” at Speculative Forensics, the 55th Annual UCLA Art History Graduate Symposium in November of 2020; as well as “Embroidered Selves in Enclosure: An Exploration of Boundaries in 15th Century Nun’s Illustration of the Mystic Hunt” at Self and Selves, the April 2021 White Rose Medieval Graduate Conference co-sponsored by the Universities of York and Leeds; and finally, “Queer Access: John the Evangelist’s Orientation Affirmed in 13th Century English Apocalypse Manuscripts” at the NYU MARGINS Graduate Symposium Apocalypse and Revelation in May 2021.
Keyu Yan presented “Maryn Varbanov (1932-1989) and His Legacy” at The Ohio State University Department of History of Art Graduate Symposium in March 2021, and presented “Christian Art and Fu Jen University in Republican China (1911-1949)” at the Science and Research Centre Koper Symposium on Missionary Activities and East-Asian Collections, University of Ljubljana in May 2021.
Gillian Zhang presented “Authenticating Su Shi’s (1037-1101) Snowy Wave Stone in Premodern China” at the conference "Understanding Authenticity in China’s Cultural Heritage," University of Oxford, in March, 2021, and “The Qianlong Emperor’s (r.1736-1799) Pictorial Stelae” at the conference "Imitation or Appropriation? Intermediality in Qing Imperial Art and Culture," SOAS, University of London, in May 2021. She also published the article "Making a Canonical Work: A Cultural History of the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting (1679-1949)” in the journal East Asian Publishing and Society in March 2020, and co-published (with Patricia Sieber) a chapter "The Story of the Western Wing: Theatre and the Printed Image" in the book How to Read Chinese Drama, edited by Patricia Sieber and Regina Llamas. Columbia University Press, Oct. 2021.
Selected Recent PhDs:
Academic/Museum Placements (2015-present)
Eunice Uhm (PhD 2021) is a postdoctoral fellow at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts and Kalamazoo College (2021-2024)
Yiwen Liu (PhD 2021) is a research assistant at the Cleveland Museum of Art
Trenton Olsen (PhD 2020) is an assistant professor of history of art at Lindenwood University
Kristen Adams (PhD 2020) is a lecturer of history of art at Ohio State
Effie Yin (PhD 2019) is an assistant professor of history of art at the Ringling College of Art and Design
Elizabeth Sandoval (PhD 2018) is a research assistant at the Williams College Museum of Art
Ahyoung Yoo (PhD 2017) is a lecturer at Lewis and Clark College
Rebecca Howard (PhD 2017) is a visiting assistant professor of history of art at the University of Memphis
James Hansen (PhD 2017) is an assistant professor of history of art at Alfred University
Kimberly Masteller (PhD 2017) is curator of South and Southeast Asian Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum
Lisa Iacobellis (PhD 2017) is the instructional services coordinator for Thompson Library Special Collections at Ohio State
Mina Kim (PhD 2016) is an assistant professor of history of art at the University of Alabama
Robert Calhoun (PhD 2016) is a lecturer at The Ohio State University at Newark
Ivana Rosenblatt (PhD 2015) is an adjunct assistant professor of history of art at the University of Maryland Global Campus
Yang Wang (PhD 2015) is an assistant professor of history of art at the University of Colorado Denver
