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Notes from the Chair Graduate News Ashley Atkins has won the 2004 Winterthur Research Fellowship. Christopher Atkins presented the paper “Frans Hals Out of the Frame” at the conference “Framing in Literature and Other Media” at the Karl Franzens Universität Graz, in Graz, Austria in June. He was also invited to present a lecture in the Boston University Art History Lecture Series. The title of his talk was “Not So Fast: A Reconsideration of Frans Hals’s Rough Manner.” Amy Bryzgel presented the paper "The Metaphysical Journeys of Miervaldis Polis” at the Association of Women in Slavic Studies First Annual Conference, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, June, 2004. She also presented a paper during the 10th Annual Graduate Student Symposium in Art History at the Graduate Center, CUNY. This paper, "Afrika's Crimania: Negotiating Post-Soviet Identity, " was also delivered at the Student Members' Group of the Association of Art Historians "New Voices" Conference, University of Reading, UK. Meghan Callahan received a Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) fellowship, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Kim Curtiss presented a paper, "Veiled Identities: George Caleb Bingham’s Fur Traders Descending the Missouri and the American Art-Union in 1845," at the Frick Symposium on the History of Art in New York. She was awarded the Patricia and Phillip Frost Pre-doctoral Fellowship at the Smithsonian American Art Museum to conduct research for her dissertation, “Making Red Skins White: The Construction of Racial and Cultural Identity through Paintings and Photographs of the Native American, 1800-1900.” Caitlin Davis presented the paper "Lee Miller: Images of Death" at SECAC (Southeast College Arts Conference) in Jacksonville, Florida in October, 2004. Lisandra Estevez presented the paper “Artemisia Gentileschi and the Spanish Taste for Italian Painting in the Seventeenth Century” at the Renaissance Society of America’s Conference in New York last April. Christine Filippone delivered a lecture, “Feminist Utopianism in the Work of Alice Aycock and Martha Rosler,” at the Southeastern College Art, and was awarded the SECAC Graduate Student Travel Fellowship. She has also been selected to co-chair the panel “The Potential of the Print: Public Art and the Role of New Technologies” at CAA 2006. Heather Hess won the Polaire Weisman Fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, which will allow her to continue her dissertation research while working
in the Met’s Costume Institute. Patricia C. Kiernan recently had a paper accepted at a conference at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, England. The conference, “Making, Selling, Seeing: The Production and Experience of Relief in the Renaissance,” will take place March 4-5, 2005 in conjunction with the exhibition, “Depth of Field: The Place of Relief in the Time of Donatello.” Her paper is entitled “Romancing the Visconti? An Embriachi Composite at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.” Karen Lloyd presented a paper at the Ninth Annual Philadelphia Symposium on the History of Art on Saturday, March 27, 2004 in the Van Pelt Auditorium at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The paper was entitled “Bernini’s Ludovica Albertoni and the Representation of Divine Love”. Ljubomir Milanovic presented a paper, “Reconsidering the Significance of the Esphigmenou Chrysobull,” at the Byzantine Studies Conference at Johns Hopkins. Alison Poe received a Graduate School –New Brunswick Special Opportunity Grant to travel to Rome in January, 2004, as a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome. She delivered three conference papers in 2004: “Banqueting and Belonging in the Precincts and Solaria of Roman Imperial Cemeteries,” at the Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting, San Francisco, January 3-6; “Bringing light to the tomb: The Mosaic of Christ-Helios in the Mausoleum of the Julii, Rome,” at a conference entitled “The Survival and Revival of Antiquity” at Hood College, Maryland, January 31; and “Shedding New Light on the Mosaic of Christ-Helios in the Mausoleum of the Julii, Rome,” at the International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 6-9. In Fall, 2004, she taught Greek and Roman Art as an adjunct lecturer at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. She will give a paper entitled “Brickwork in the Earliest Christian Catacombs: Crypta as Aedes, Sepulcrum, and Domus” as part of the Association Villard de Honnecourt for Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art (AVISTA) session at the International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, in May, 2005.
Katie Poole and Rachel Winter, Winners of the olga berendsen Prize for Baroque art Katie Poole presented the paper "The Fountains of Juno and Neptune: Cosimo I de' Medici and the Power of Water" this past October at the University of Virginia Department of Art History Graduate Student Symposium, “Politics and Art.” Katie will also present "Heroines and Triumphs: Visual Lessons for Cassandra Ricasoli-Ruccellai in the Palazzo Sacchetti, Rome" at the annual Renaissance Society of America Conference being held in Cambridge, England, this April. Suzan Slominski has been awarded a research grant from the Lemmermann Foundation, an interdisciplinary organization that funds scholarship on various aspects of Roman society. She also received a research grant from the Elkins Foundation for the Study of Italian Art and a summer research grant from the Graduate School, New Brunswick, for pre-dissertation support.
Wendy Steule on her wedding day flanked by bridesmaids Lois Eliason (Ph.D. 2004) and Christine Goulding (current student).
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