| Barber wins Director’s Essay Prize | Barber wins Director’s Essay Prize | | 6/17/2022 4:00:00 AM | | <p><strong>Tiffany E. Barber</strong>, assistant professor of Africana studies and
art history, has been awarded the 2022 Director’s Essay Prize by the
Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, which fosters leading research
in the field of visual biography and American portraiture. Barber’s
prize-winning essay, “<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00043249.2020.1724031">Narcissister, a Truly Kinky Artist</a>,” was published in the spring 2020 issue of <em>Art Journal</em>.
The jury of scholars who selected her for the award cited the essay’s
interdisciplinary contributions to the fields of American art,
biography, history and cultural identity and called the piece “an
immensely original essay, deeply researched and written with panache.”
Barber will present a paper related to her essay topic at the prize
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| Baker awarded the 2022 Frances E. Malamy Research Fellowship | Baker awarded the 2022 Frances E. Malamy Research Fellowship | | 5/13/2022 4:00:00 AM | | <p><strong>Megan Baker</strong>, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Art
History, has been awarded the 2022 Frances E. Malamy Research Fellowship
at the Peabody Essex Museum’s Phillips Library. Over the summer, Baker
will use visual and archival material, including family papers and
shipping logs, to investigate how residents of 18th-century Salem,
Massachusetts, engaged with the pastel medium before and during the
American Revolution. This research will contribute to her dissertation,
“Crayon Rebellion: The Material Politics of North American Pastels,
1758-1814,” which looks at the evolution of the pastel medium across
North America during the late 18th and early 19nth centuries.<br></p> | <img alt="Megan Baker" src="/ForTheRecord%20Images/ARTH-2022-baker-megan.jpeg" style="BORDER:0px solid;" /> | Cropped Headshot | | GP0|#99d961eb-8936-415c-9024-28a13cec289a;L0|#099d961eb-8936-415c-9024-28a13cec289a|Awards and Honors;GTSet|#0a3b6244-764a-4413-b2f1-4b4c15da868c | 2022.00000000000 | https://publish.cas.udel.edu/Lists/ForTheRecord/DispForm.aspx?ID=179 | |
| Johnson named predoctoral research resident at the Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities | Johnson named predoctoral research resident at the Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities | | 5/13/2022 4:00:00 AM | | <p><strong>Gabriella L. Johnson</strong>, doctoral candidate in the Department of Art
History, has been selected as a predoctoral research resident at the
Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities (nicknamed
La Capraia) in Naples, from September 2022 through June 2023. The center
supports interdisciplinary projects that highlight Naples and southern
Italy as a site of exchange, encounter and transformation. She will be
researching her dissertation, "Galatea's Realm: The Art of Coral,
Shells, and Marine Fossils in Early Modern Sicily, Naples, and the
Maltese Islands."<br></p> | <img alt="Gabriella Johnson" src="/ForTheRecord%20Images/ARTH-2022-johnson-gabby.jpg" style="BORDER:0px solid;" /> | Cropped Headshot | | GP0|#99d961eb-8936-415c-9024-28a13cec289a;L0|#099d961eb-8936-415c-9024-28a13cec289a|Awards and Honors;GTSet|#0a3b6244-764a-4413-b2f1-4b4c15da868c | 2022.00000000000 | https://publish.cas.udel.edu/Lists/ForTheRecord/DispForm.aspx?ID=180 | |
| Stephenson receives fellowship through the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium | Stephenson receives fellowship through the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium | | 4/29/2022 4:00:00 AM | | <p><span class="wrap-text">Doctoral candidate <strong>Lea Stephenson</strong> has been
awarded a fellowship through the New England Regional Fellowship
Consortium, which will support research related to her dissertation, "
'Wonderful Things': Egyptomania, Empire, and the Senses, 1870-1922." She
will be a resident fellow at specific New England institutions,
including the Boston Athenaeum, Massachusetts Historical Society,
Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, and Houghton Library, Harvard.
For her fellowship, Stephenson will be researching visual culture and
archival material related to late nineteenth-century New Englanders in
Egypt, including watercolors, travel diaries, photograph albums, and
correspondence. This summer archival research will form the groundwork
for her chapters exploring the multi-sensorial landscape experience by
Euro-American travelers and souvenirs acquired in Egypt.</span></p> | <img alt=" Lea Stephenson" src="/ForTheRecord%20Images/ARTH-2022-Stephenson-Lea.jpg" style="BORDER:0px solid;" /> | Uncropped Vertical | | GP0|#99d961eb-8936-415c-9024-28a13cec289a;L0|#099d961eb-8936-415c-9024-28a13cec289a|Awards and Honors;GTSet|#0a3b6244-764a-4413-b2f1-4b4c15da868c | 2022.00000000000 | https://publish.cas.udel.edu/Lists/ForTheRecord/DispForm.aspx?ID=175 | |
| Vause publishes essay | Vause publishes essay | | 2/18/2022 5:00:00 AM | | <p>In the essay, "Grasping the Cross: Transforming the Body and Mind in Early Medieval England," art history Ph.D. candidate <strong>Rachael Vause</strong>
addresses the questions: What can the sciences tell us about oral
societies who left behind beautiful objects but no textual record? Is it
possible to discern the motivations of humans of the past who shared
similar bodies and brains as our own? Her essay was recently published
in the volume, <em>Transmissions and Translations in Medieval Literary and Material Culture,</em> edited
by Megan Henvey, Amanda Doviak and Jane Hawkes. Combining art
historical methods and neuroscientific studies, she connects the body to
wearable religious items, which served as powerful components in the
Christian conversion of 6th-7th century England.</p> | <img alt="Rachael Vause" src="/ForTheRecord%20Images/ARTH_20220218_vause_essay.jpg" style="BORDER:0px solid;" /> | Cropped Headshot | | GP0|#e59b718f-f2f3-4654-8986-5eea60d4f90b;L0|#0e59b718f-f2f3-4654-8986-5eea60d4f90b|Publications;GTSet|#0a3b6244-764a-4413-b2f1-4b4c15da868c | 2022.00000000000 | https://publish.cas.udel.edu/Lists/ForTheRecord/DispForm.aspx?ID=156 | |
| Rujivacharakul reappointed visiting professor at Tsinghua University | Rujivacharakul reappointed visiting professor at Tsinghua University | ;vimalin; | 1/21/2022 5:00:00 AM | | <p><span class="wrap-text">Tsinghua University is China's top university,
frequently referred to as the "MIT of China." Its School of Architecture
is also among the most renowned schools of architecture in the world,
having produced many premier architects and scholars. Professor <strong>Vimalin
Rujivacharakul </strong>first received Tsinghua's visiting professorship at the
School of Architecture from 2018-2021. In January 2022,
her reappointment was officially confirmed. She will continue her
work with her Tsinghua colleagues to develop new ways of understanding
and designing vernacular architecture and site development in China.
The Vernacular Architecture Unit at Tsinghua's School of Architecture
has earned many accolades from both public and private sectors in China.
Their efforts to promote vernacular villages and cultures have
resulted in the rehabilitation and restoration of several important
sites, notably the famous temple complex in the City of Songyang, which
recently hosted the <a href="https://unhabitat.org/china-international-forum-on-urban-rural-linkages-highlights-health-territorial-approaches%29.">UN-Habitat Conference</a>. The team has also collaborated with international experts from
England, France, Italy and the United States to explore ways in
assessing and working with tangible and intangible heritage.</span><br></p> | <img alt="" src="/content-sub-site/PublishingImages/Noteworthy_FTR/Rujivacharakul_Foguang%20%20Site%20Visit.jpg" style="BORDER:0px solid;" /> | Uncropped Vertical | | GP0|#8442c1a6-2557-4340-b895-2f7f241f6ae1;L0|#08442c1a6-2557-4340-b895-2f7f241f6ae1|Appointments;GTSet|#0a3b6244-764a-4413-b2f1-4b4c15da868c | 2022.00000000000 | https://publish.cas.udel.edu/Lists/ForTheRecord/DispForm.aspx?ID=144 | |
| Cross facilitates installation at the Delaware Art Museum | Cross facilitates installation at the Delaware Art Museum | ;across; | 1/7/2022 5:00:00 AM | | <p>On Dec. 9, 2021, a tour of the Delaware Art Museum’s recent
reinstallation of its American galleries was facilitated by doctoral
candidate <strong>Anne Cross</strong>, co-founder of the Art History Graduate
Student Anti-Racism Initiative and current Lynn Herrick Sharp Curatorial
Fellow at the Delaware Art Museum. Museum curators Heather Campbell
Coyle, Margaret Winslow and Margaretta Frederick walked UD art history
graduate students through the museum's process and fielded questions on
representation, reparations and community engagement. This is the first
comprehensive museum rehanging since 2005. The museum worked with a
Delaware-based advisory board to reimagine the galleries, acquiring
several significant pieces by women and Black artists that tell a more
inclusive story of the visual arts. </p> | | Uncropped Vertical | | GP0|#04611ae7-92e6-4159-9e62-ac61be0875a2;L0|#004611ae7-92e6-4159-9e62-ac61be0875a2|Performances;GTSet|#0a3b6244-764a-4413-b2f1-4b4c15da868c | 2022.00000000000 | https://publish.cas.udel.edu/Lists/ForTheRecord/DispForm.aspx?ID=135 | |
| Kutis authors news book | Kutis authors news book | | 10/29/2021 4:00:00 AM | | <p><span class="s1" style=""><b>Barbara Kutis</b>, who earned her doctorate in art history in 2013, is the author of <em>Artist-Parents in Contemporary Art: Gender, Identity, and Domesticity</em>, published by Routledge.</span><br></p> | | Uncropped Vertical | | GP0|#e59b718f-f2f3-4654-8986-5eea60d4f90b;L0|#0e59b718f-f2f3-4654-8986-5eea60d4f90b|Publications;GTSet|#0a3b6244-764a-4413-b2f1-4b4c15da868c | 2021.00000000000 | https://publish.cas.udel.edu/Lists/ForTheRecord/DispForm.aspx?ID=9 | |
| Deusner authors book, catalog essay | Deusner authors book, catalog essay | | 10/29/2021 4:00:00 AM | | <p><span class="s1" style=""><b>Melody Barnett Deusner</b>, who earned her doctorate in art history in 2011, is the author of <em>Aesthetic Painting in Britain and America: Collectors, Art Worlds, Networks</em>, published by Yale University Press. Deusner also wrote a catalog essay and helped with object selection for the exhibition “Sargent, Whistler and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano,” which opened Oct. 8 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.</span><br><br></p><br> | | Uncropped Vertical | | GP0|#e59b718f-f2f3-4654-8986-5eea60d4f90b;L0|#0e59b718f-f2f3-4654-8986-5eea60d4f90b|Publications;GTSet|#0a3b6244-764a-4413-b2f1-4b4c15da868c | 2021.00000000000 | https://publish.cas.udel.edu/Lists/ForTheRecord/DispForm.aspx?ID=8 | |
| Constantinou curates exhibition | Constantinou curates exhibition | | 10/28/2021 4:00:00 AM | | <p>Alumna <strong>Meghan Constantinou </strong>(MA, 2010) is
curating an exhibition at the Grolier Club (where she is librarian), and
which will include loans from the well known Mark Samuels Lasner
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