The Graduate Awards ceremony held non April 26 honored several art history students: Reed O’Mara and Katelyn Jones for the best papers; Lauryn Smith for the overall performance; and Julie Polsinelli for excellence in teaching. Marina Mandrikova, Sam Truman, Morgan McCommon, and Sarah Lavin received Pancoast awards. Two awards were given posthumously to Simone Perry, a graduate student in art education who tragically passed away in February of this year.
Photo: Dean Joy Ward joins Prof. Gertsman, Katelyn Jones, and Reed O’Mara for a photo op after the ceremony. Click below to see more photos!
Prof. Gertsman is delighted to announce this call for papers aimed at graduate students and early career scholars, who are invited to send in paper abstracts for a two-day symposium on animality in pre-modern, and particularly medieval, Jewish art and culture. The symposium, which will take place at the Newberry Library in Chicago on May 14-15, 2024, will address a plethora of topics: cosmic ecologies and their continuities across the animal-human-divine-demonic spectrum; visual and textual collisions between humanities and animalities; bestialization as a heuristic; animalization of Jews in Jewish and Christian discourses; zoocephaly in material and literary sources; monstrosities and hybridities as sites of wonder and liminality. Please click below for submission information.
