College of Arts and Sciences

This summer, third-year PhD students Clara Pinchbeck and Arielle Suskin were accepted to be part of the American Excavations at Samothrace team. They traveled to Athens and scoped out the Acropolis, found Arielle’s favorite vase fragments in the Acropolis Museum, then landed in Samothrace, land of the ancient sanctuary and many goats.

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Students in the Graduate Association of Medieval Studies (GAMS) had a fantastic time at the first GAMS event of the semester last night—Pizza and Movie Night (with nothing less than Monty Python and the Holy Grail playing)! Lots of laughs and discussion among our medievalists, musicologists, and more. We're...

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In July PhD Candidate Jillian Kruse had the amazing opportunity to take part in the Association of Print Scholars Intaglio Printmaking Workshop for Early Career Curators and Scholars funded by the Getty Paper Project. Over the course of five days, participants learned about various intaglio printmaking methods and made their...

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Congratulations to Sam Truman on the opening of the exhibition Graphic Design in the Middle Ages (https://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/manuscript_design/)! The show explores the role of graphic design in the making of medieval manuscripts and considers how visual elements guided the ways readers experienced their books. Sam contributed to the exhibition under the...

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