Doctoral candidate Mariah Postlewait is the new Library Director at Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, a private, non-profit art college located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In this new position she has begun various initiatives including creating community library memberships, student collaboration spaces, and a writing center.
PhD candidate Lauren Cesiro has been awarded a Library Research Grant from the Getty Foundation. The grant will allow her to conduct on-site archival research related to her dissertation, The Body Is a Battleground: Intimate Communities in the Photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe, Nan Goldin, and Sally Mann. Lauren is particularly looking forward to examining the Getty’s collection of ephemera related to Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographic career and practice.
Congratulations to Kaeun Park (MA 2018) who has just published her article, “Reconsidering Everyday Life Photography: Saenghwalchuŭi Sajin in South Korea in the 1950s and 1960s,” in the refereed journal, Trans Asia Photography Review(http://tapreview.org/). The essay is a revised version of Kaeun’s 2018 Master’s Thesis. Kaeun is currently a PhD candidate in Art History and Criticism at Stony Brook University, with a research focus on photography and visual culture in postwar South Korea.
Event is co-sponsored by the Undergraduate Art History Association
Pietro Longhi, The Ridotto, 1740s, oil on canvas, Raccotta Salon, Venice
PhD Candidate Nicole Wagner received the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Grant for 2018. She was funded to perform archival research in Venice, Italy for eight months. Most of her research was in the State Archives of Venice, for the third chapter of my dissertation on female gamblers, namely sex-workers, in early modern Venice, and the rise of the ridotto as a space for card play. Her dissertation title is “Women Working the Table: The Material Culture, Gendered Spaces, and Visual Representations of Female Card Players in Early Modern Italy.”
From July 1 to 12, 2019 Jeffrey C. Youn, currently a Junior Researcher at Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies under Fulbright Fellowship, will attend the 13th Kyujanggak Korean Studies Summer Workshop and the 7th HanmunWorkshop organized by the International Center for Korean Studies at Kyujanggak. Both workshops aim to give graduate students in Korean studies or Korea-related subjects an opportunity to further their understanding of research trends in various fields of Korean studies, and to improve their reading comprehension of classical hanmun texts.
A Hydrographical and Chorographical Chart of the Philippine Islands, World Digital Library
Lalaine Bangilan Little, PhD candidate in the department of art history, will defend her dissertation, “Retablo: Configuring Relationships, Spaces, and Activities in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Philippines” on Friday, March 29, 2019, at 12 pm in FA 218. The committee members include Professors Nancy Um (chair), Pamela Smart, John Chaffee, and Cynthia Marasigan (outside examiner). This dissertation defense is open to the public.
