College of Arts and Sciences

HUGE Congratulations to MA candidate Emma Lazerson, whose essay "Performance and Imitation: Sofonisba Anguissola's Self Portrait with Madonna and Child," has been accepted for publication in Sequitur, the graduate journal of Boston University! Emma's article articulates the complex modes of self-representation and artistic emulation at play in the work of one of...

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Please join us for three mini-talks and a conversation on medieval art and race, sponsored by the Department of Art history and Art and moderated by Prof. Elina Gertsman. February 2nd 6: 00 PM EST Zoom The conversation features three speakers: Thomas Dale (Simona and Jerome Distinguished Chair of Art History, University of...

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Congratulations to PhD students Cecily Hughes and Reed O'Mara for being accepted to From “Fuzzy” to “Eclectic” and Everything in Between: Intercultural Encounters in the Pre-Modern World conference at Yale University that will take place this April. Cecily will present “Overpowering Dragons, or Putting Paganism in its Place,” the paper she...

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CONGRATULATIONS to Art History undergraduate, Winston Kam, who has been selected for inclusion in the prestigious University of Alabama Graduate Student Art History Symposium. The symposium is usually closed to undergraduates, but Winston is among the selected exceptions who will present their work in a poster session. His poster is...

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Congratulations to Professor Elina Gertsman for receiving the 2023 Medieval Academy's Award for Excellence in Teaching Medieval Studies. This national award recognizes outstanding pedagogical achievement in teaching inspiring courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Professor Gertsman was nominated by her students; we are grateful to them for their...

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Today's feature story in The Daily discusses the centrality of community engagement to the CWRU mission and links to the Fall/Winter issue of Think magazine, where our own MA candidate, Jess Xiao Long is profiled! Jess was the inaugural Keithley Fellow in Community-Engaged Art History and worked with LAND Studio to create the popular...

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Professor Maggie Popkin and PhD candidate Arielle Suskin (pictured here) presented papers at the recent 2023 Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) in New Orleans. Professor Popkin spoke about Roman gladiator knives and the objectification of gladiators in ancient Rome, while Arielle spoke about ancient Greek...

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Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Angie Verduci and MA student Marina Savchenkova who have been selected to participate in the 22nd Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies that will take place on March 16-18 2023 on Harvard’s campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Angie will present her paper entitled “Reading Love as Death...

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Third-year Ph.D. student Reed O'Mara was recently named a recipient of the CWRU Graduate Council of Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Scholarship and Creative Endeavors Grant (GCAS GSSCE). Reed's project includes a trip to the United Kingdom where she will examine medieval manuscripts at the British Library and Bodleian...

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