PhD Candidates
Current students in the PhD program
Mojgan Aghaei Meybodi
PhD Candidate
Areas of interest: History of architecture, material culture, and urban planning (19th and 20th centuries); cross-cultural exchange; modern and contemporary art.
Cristina Aldrich
PhD Candidate
Areas of interest: Medieval art, especially from the Iberian Peninsula, Marian devotion, polychrome wooden sculpture, pilgrimage, history of collections.
Samuel Allen
PhD Candidate
Areas of interest: History of photography; American art, nationalism and empire; labor history; sexuality and gender.
Sophia Bevacqua
PhD Candidate
Areas of interest: Early Modern European art, especially works on paper; the advent of drawing; concepts of metamorphosis, hybridity, and myth; materialized encounters with the Ottoman and Safavid worlds; hydrographic networks of paper; intersections of artistic practice and philosophy; the quattrocento origins of virtuality, entropy, and feedback.
Quinn R. Bolte
PhD Candidate
Areas of interest: Late Antique Eastern Mediterranean Art and Archaeology.
Christine Bootes
PhD Candidate
Areas of interest: Modern and contemporary art; history and theory of photography, film and media.
Doug Braun
PhD Candidate
Areas of interest: Ancient Greek art and archaeology, especially Archaic and Classical painted pottery; iconology of myth; human-animal relationships in the ancient world; museum studies and curation.
Bentley Brown
PhD Candidate
Areas of interest: Contemporary Art with a special focus on Black artists and Black creative spaces within New York City’s contemporary art movements of the late 1960s through the mid-1980s, Postwar American Abstract and Figurative Expressionism, and Contemporary Photography of the African Diaspora with concentration on images of segregation and Black identity.
Shiro Burnette
PhD Candidate
Areas of interest: Graeco-Roman Egypt, cross-cultural exchange, hybridity, domestic space, decolonization, memory and materiality, antiquarianism and collecting, history of museums.
Josephine D. Chase
PhD Candidate
Areas of interest: Art and visual culture of the African Diaspora, histories of photography in West and Central Africa, African American art historiographies, Black life and the archive.
Yunhao Chen
PhD Candidate
Areas of interest: Buddhist art and material culture in medieval China; art in the contact zone; place and space; mural paintings; materiality and crafting.
Mohammed Salih Cholakkalakath
PhD Candidate
Areas of interest: Islamic Art; South Asian Art.
Katherine Cohen
PhD Candidate
Areas of interest: Ancient Greek archaeology, craft production (especially ceramics), history of technology, archaeological theory and the (pre)history of archaeological practice
Annie Correll
PhD Candidate
Areas of interest: Northern European art, 1400 - 1700; materiality; temporality; frames and parerga; cross-cultural and cross-material exchanges.
Mason Cummings
PhD Candidate
Areas of interest: Euro-American art and visual culture of the long nineteenth century; history of aesthetics; history of science/medicine.
Claire Davis
PhD Candidate
Areas of interest: Roman art and archaeology; Roman mosaics of North Africa and Western Asia; experiential approaches to visual-material culture; digital humanities applied to the study of the ancient world.
Zhilong Deng
PhD Candidate
Areas of interest: Ink Painting and Art Making.
Fangjie Deng
PhD Candidate
Areas of interest: Chinese Painting from the 10th to the 14th Century, Chinese Landscape Painting, Technique of Chinese Ink Painting, Visual Art of Medieval China.
Brandon Eng
PhD Candidate
Areas of interest: 20th century American Art including art and economics, labor history, public art, performance, and post-war architecture and urban planning.
Megan Gatton
PhD Candidate
Areas of interest: Ancient craft traditions and fabrication techniques; Uses of ancient material culture in modern constructions of race; Anthropological approaches to art history and classical archaeology.
Helina Gebremedhen
PhD Candidate
Areas of interest: 'Medieval' Islamic art across Africa and the Indian Ocean world, focusing on Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa; critical historiography and museum practices.
Luis Guevara-Flores
PhD Candidate
Areas of interest: Indigenous Americas Arts and Archeology, Latin American Arts, Nahuatl language, Modern Mexican nationalism, museum curation, performance art.
Kinaya Hassane
PhD Candidate
Areas of interest: 19th and 20th century visual culture of the Swahili coast and African Indian Ocean islands; photography; archives & collecting.
Phoebe Herland
PhD Candidate
Areas of interest: Post war British and American art, with a special interest in artistic exchange between London and Los Angeles.
Madison Hummer
PhD Candidate
Areas of interest: European and American art of the long nineteenth century; intellectual and cultural histories; art, stillness, and gender; pathologized color.
Peter Moore Johnson
PhD Candidate
Areas of interest: Ancient Egyptian and Nubian Art & Archaeology; Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Greater Mediterranean during the First Millennium BCE; Identity in the Ancient World; Reception Studies and Historiography of Antiquity; Digital Humanities in Archaeology & Art History.
Kolleen Ku
PhD Candidate
Areas of interest: Modern and contemporary art; art of the Asian diaspora; feminist and queer approaches; abstraction; migration and cross-cultural exchanges.
So Jeong Lee
PhD Candidate
Areas of interest: South Asian Art; Islamic Art.
Jinyi Liu
PhD Candidate
Areas of interest: late Imperial Chinese art and material culture; production and materiality of decorative arts; objects of early modern global trade; visual representation and spatial experience of urban landscape.
Corey Loftus
PhD Candidate
Areas of interest: Modern Art, History of Photography, Latin American Art, Feminist, Queer, & Crip studies, Philosophies of Embodiment, Historic Preservation.
Emma Lyandres
PhD Candidate
Areas of interest: Visual and material culture of early modern Italy; Renaissance perceptions of Jerusalem; Jewish ceremonial art, especially textiles; artistic, cultural, and intellectual exchanges in sixteenth-century Mediterranean.
Khaled Malas
PhD Candidate
Areas of interest: Islamic Art and Architecture. Buildings and their representations; design-as-research; histories and theories of art, architecture, urbanism, magic, and medicine. The production, circulation, and consumption of efficacious images.
Noah Margulis
PhD Candidate
Areas of interest: Renaissance and Baroque art in Italy and France; the graphic arts, media, and materiality; landscape studies and the environmental humanities; antiquarianism and historiography.
Megija Milberga
PhD Candidate
Areas of interest: Modern and contemporary art in Eastern Europe; architecture and urban planning in the Soviet Union, with a special interest in the Baltic States.
Desiree S. Mitton
PhD Candidate
Area of interest: Postwar American Art.
Elyse Nelson
PhD Candidate
Areas of interest: Eighteenth and nineteenth-century European painting and sculpture; neoclassicism; Antonio Canova’s late career and British patrons.
Selin Ozulkulu
PhD Candidate
Areas of interest: Nineteenth-Century Cross-Cultural Contact Between Western Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean; Imperial/National Self-Fashioning; Artistic Self-Representations; Cyclicality of Reception.
Sehyun Park
PhD Candidate
Areas of interest: Medieval East Asian Art.
Louisa M. Raitt
PhD Candidate
Areas of interest: Art of the Spanish World 15th-18th centuries, focusing on painting and material culture of Viceregal New Spain.
Juan Gabriel Ramírez Bolívar
PhD Candidate
Areas of interest: Latin American Art of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; Artistic Exchanges between Europe and the Hemispheric Americas; Global History of Art.
Lauren Rooney
PhD Candidate
Areas of interest: European art, 18th century–20th century; history of aesthetics; aesthetic discourses of the Enlightenment.
Shannah Rose
PhD Candidate
Areas of interest: colonial Mexican manuscripts; print culture in the Spanish Americas, Italy, and the Iberian Peninsula; history of the book; codicology; translation studies; collecting history
Rebecca A. Salem
Areas of interest: Greek architecture, primarily of the Archaic and Classical periods; Architectural history and theory; Archaeology of the ancient Mediterranean; 3D modeling; Cultural heritage; temporality.
Joseph Shaikewitz
PhD Candidate
Areas of interest: Modern art; North and South America; gender and sexuality studies; trans visual culture.
Jasmine Smith
PhD Candidate
Areas of interest: Ancient Egyptian Art & Archaeology; Digital Humanities; conceptions of creativity and innovation in tomb decoration; expressions of individuality in the Ancient World; Historiography of Egyptology.
Tyler C. Spencer
PhD Candidate
Area of interest: Art and architecture of the United States; history of photography; Indigenous North American and Mesoamerican art and architecture; history of science.
Ankita Srivastava
PhD Candidate
Area of interest: Early Modern South Asian art, Early Modern European art, Early Photography.
Graham Stopa
PhD Candidate
Area of interest: Art and architecture of Africa.
Scarlett H. Strauss
PhD Candidate
Areas of interest: Late medieval and Renaissance Italy, especially sacred paintings; anthropology of ritual; metapictoriality; phenomenology; performance theory; social history; visuality.
Noah Stevens-Stein
PhD Candidate
Area of interest: Sixteenth-century painting in Italy and and the world; portraiture and selfhood; Titian; the "Renaissance" and contemporary art; other "Renaissances."
Peter Anthony Thompson
PhD Candidate
Areas of Interest: Ancient Greek archaeology; archaism and retrospection in ancient visual-material culture; visualization practices in archaeology; ancient pasts in popular culture; history of archaeology and museums.
Jennifer Todaro
PhD Candidate
Area of interest: Ancient Egyptian and Nubian tattoos, body modifications, and adornments.
Keda Wang
PhD Candidate
Areas of interest: Architectural history, scale and miniatures, spatial perceptions, East Asia and Southeast Asia, late medieval to early modern periods.
Lijie Wang
PhD Candidate
Areas of interest: Modern and Contemporary Art.
Tong Xue
PhD Candidate
Area of interest: Medieval Chinese art, with a focus on funerary art in the 5th-7th centuries Southern tombs.