Graduate Students
- Elizabeth P. Baltes
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Elizabeth's dissertation, "Dedication and Display of Portrait Statues in Ancient Greece: Spatial Practices and Identity Politics," moves beyond the traditional approach to Greek sculpture to recontextualize individual monuments and to visualize entire statue landscapes. Her approach takes into account locational specificity and change over time, two facets of ancient statue dedication that are key to understanding the changing spatial, political, economic, and social meaning of statues. Elizabeth's work leverages digital visualization technologies, such ...
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- Kency Cornejo
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Kency Cornejo is a PhD candidate in Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University with a focus on modern and contemporary Latin American Art and Visual Culture. She received her B.A. in Art History from UCLA and her M.A. in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests, broadly, include: the intersection between race, ...
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- Aurelia E. D'Antonio
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Aurelia is a PhD candidate currently writing her dissertation entitled, "Throwing Stones at Friars: The Church of San Francesco in Piacenza." The dissertation explores the political environment of Piacenza and the Italian peninsula more generally, and how individual agendas created the conditions for the construction of the Franciscan church. Her research looks critically at ...
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- Erin Hanas
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This dissertation, "Wolf Vostell's Fluxus Zug, 1969-1981: Mobile Museum, Ideal Academy, Alternative Archive" is a microhistorical study of Fluxus Zug, which traveled from May 1 through September 29, 1981 to sixteen cities in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The close reading sheds light on the broader issue of how various modes of artistic production ...
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- Katherine L. Jentleson
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I am a PhD student in the department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University. I specialize in the art of the United States, with a focus on modern and contemporary art. After my preliminary examinations in April 2013, I will officially begin my dissertation on the history of folk and self-taught art in the United States. Drawing ...
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- Laura Moure Cecchini
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In her dissertation, tentatively titled "Italian Modernism and the Baroque. From Fin de siècle Decadence to Fascism", Laura will analyze how some key figures – artists, critics, and art historians – invoked Baroque motifs, genres and tropes to interpret the experience of Modernity. In particular, she is interested in the contested re-appropriation of the Baroque under Fascism, both as a ...
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- Hilary Coe Smith
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Hilary Coe Smith is a PhD candidate in Art, Art History & Visual Studies. She specializes in visual culture in Northern Europe and France, 15th-18th centuries. Her research interests include the emergence of art markets, social, urban, and economic history. Hilary is currently conducting research for her dissertation on "The Role of the Auction Catalogue in ...
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