PhD candidate Clara Pinchbeck has accepted a two-year Research Assistant position at the Getty Research Institute. Working under Dr. Nancy Um, Associate Director for Research and Knowledge Creation, Clara will focus on long-term digital projects within a division that encompasses the Getty Provenance Index, the Getty Vocabulary Program, and Digital Art History initiatives. Clara brings a distinctive combination of art historical and digital humanities expertise to this role. Before starting at CWRU, she received her MA in Digital Art History from Duke University. Her dissertation, which examines textile reuse in Late Antique Egypt, engages with questions of digital reconstruction, fragmented objects, and dispersed collections, all of which closely align with the GRI’s commitments to digital scholarship and expanded global perspectives in the history of art. She joins the GRI’s Research and Knowledge Creation division at a moment of critical advancement in technology and open access scholarship.

