Nikki DeLuca, a PhD student in medieval art, has been selected to receive the 2018 Etienne Gilson Dissertation Grant from the Medieval Academy of America. Nikki’s dissertation, advised by Prof. Gertsman, tackles the subject of shadows in late medieval manuscripts. She was also selected to attend the Newberry Library’s French paleography workshop this summer. Congratulations to Nikki!
Prof. Elina Gertsman was chosen as a finalist for the 2018 John S. Diekhoff Award for Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring. The award recognizes outstanding contributions to the education of graduate students at CWRU through advising and mentoring. In 2015, Prof. Gertsman won the Diekhoff Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching.
Kylie Fisher, doctoral student in early modern Italian art, has been awarded an Eva L. Pancoast Memorial Fellowship! This fellowship will enable Kylie to travel to London this summer to conduct an in-depth study of the British Museum’s exceptional holdings of sixteenth-century Italian prints as part of her dissertation research.
On Monday, March 26, 2018, there will be a special evening at the Linsalata Alumni Center. The evening is split into 2 parts and all are welcome. Reception to follow.
Professor Catherine Scallen presented a paper, “Wilhelm Valentiner and Joseph Duveen: Expertise and Art Market Connections” at the two-day symposium, “Art Dealers, America, and the International Art Market, 1880–1930” held at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, January 18-19, 2018.
