Julie will oversee all areas of gallery management. Her responsibilities include maintaining the organizational calendar of exhibitions, communicating with artists and jurors, managing calls to entry, acting as the courier of artwork, leading the Gallery Committee, managing and executing gallery sales, building relationships with artists, and coordinating the hanging...
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Angie Verduci and Prof. Elina Gertsman are delighted to announce that their first collaboration has been published. Their article on late medieval Dance of Death murals in northern Italy has just appeared in Source 41, no. 3 (2022). It focuses on an extraordinary fresco cycle in Nosate, bringing it...
Third-year PhD student Reed O’Mara began working this summer at Special Collections and Archives of CWRU’s Kelvin Smith Library. In addition to managing the Hatch Special Collections Reading Room, Reed has been assisting with archiving materials from Cleveland’s own Karamu House as well as studying Special Collection’s various medieval...
Congratulations to fifth-year PhD student Alex Kaczenski who has been selected as the next Curatorial Intern for the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, CA! She will spend the 2022-23 academic year working on a range of curatorial projects at the renowned institution.
On June 8th, doctoral student Angie Verduci was invited as a guest speaker for the 9th Summer School conference for doctoral students in Humanities at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. Angie was very thrilled to be back to her former university in Italy, where she met old friends...
Huge congratulations to PhD student Sam Truman, who has been accepted into the highly competitive Graduate Internship Program at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles! Sam will be working as the curatorial intern in the Manuscripts Department for the 2022-2023 academic year. The holdings of the Department of...
Huge congratulations to our alumna Shayla Croteau who has just accepted a position in the education department at the Michigan State Capitol Building in Lansing, MI! Shayla she will be giving tours, completing research projects, and contributing to future exhibitions about the art, architecture, and history of the Capitol...
On Monday, June 27 at 12 pm (EST), you are invited to a webinar hosted by Cambridge University Press to hear Professor Maggie Popkin discuss her new book, Souvenirs and the Experience of Empire in Ancient Rome.
You can register for the webinar here.
In May and June of 2022, Elina Gertsman was the invited professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris, where she offered several lectures, participated in the seminars of the international project « Arts et Intelligences du Silence », and led discussions with doctoral students in the Groupe d’anthropologie historique du long Moyen Âge. She used this occasion to do extensive research at the Bibliothèque nationale de France; travel to Bourges, Tours, and Amiens; and hold meetings with curators and conservators at several key museums, including the Louvre.
The EHESS (School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences) is a graduate-only research institution that has a unique standing in the world of research and higher education in France. It hosts scholars from all over the world, trains students up to PhD level in all disciplines of the humanities and social sciences, and — as part of an extensive global academic network — occupies a central position in French intellectual life. Prof. Gertsman will return to the EHESS as an invited professor for two more years.
During her dissertation trip across Italy, doctoral student Angie Verduci had the outstanding opportunity to see some Triumph of Death frescoes in person and accompanied by a special guest: her advisor prof. Elina Gertsman! They both truly enjoyed their time spent in front of gruesome and spellbinding depictions of Mors Triumphans!
Doctoral students Alex Kaczenski and Sam Truman recently visited Europe on a research trip for their dissertations. Alex documented paintings and sculptures of St. Agatha in France, Germany, and Italy, while Sam examined images of ghosts in manuscripts in France and England. Their research was supported, in part, by...
Congratulations to PhD students Reed O'Mara and Sam Truman! Both have been accepted into the Newberry Library's research methods workshop “Uncovering Medieval Manuscripts in Early Modern Books" taking place this fall in Chicago. In the workshop, Sam and Reed will learn more about fragmentology and have the chance to examine medieval...