Kreindler
PhD Stanford University, 2015
PhD Program
Williamson
Marisa Williamson is a project-based artist who works in video, image-making, installation and performance around themes of history, race, feminism, and technology. She has produced site-specific works at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello (2013), Storm King Art Center (2016), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2016), the University of Virginia (2018), and SPACES Cleveland (2019), and by commission from Monument Lab Philadelphia (2017), and the National Park Service (2019).
Getsy
David J. Getsy is a historian and curator of art and performance working at the intersection of art history, queer studies, and transgender studies. His research examines how non-normative genders and sexualities have been fundamental to the shape of art history’s narratives, and he has published widely on art in the United States and Europe from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries.
Jimoh
Ganiyu Jimoh is a second-year PhD student in the History of Art and Architecture program. His research interest is in Africa's modern and contemporary visual culture, focusing on digital arts and animation.
Doucette
Catherine Doucette is a second-year PhD student in Art & Architectural History studying the material cultures of the early modern Caribbean and Atlantic world under the guidance of Professor Louis Nelson. Her research explores the material worlds of colonial Jamaica, spanning from the late seventeenth century to the post-emancipation period, through an investigation of the objects locally crafted on the island and through an examination of the networks of consumers, retailers, and craftspeople (both enslaved and free) that emerged in the urban centers of Port Royal, Kingston, and S
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Duhrkoop
Ash Duhrkoop specializes in Twentieth-century and African art, with an interest in ecocriticism. Her current research considers the impacts of colonialism, industrialization, and extractive economies on art and material culture in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This interest stems from her undergraduate thesis, Atomic Bodies, which traced connections between artistic responses to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear energy plant in Japan.
Rivard
Elisabeth (Lizzie) Rivard is a third-year doctoral student studying eighteenth-century British art under Dr. Douglas Fordham. Her current dissertation research focuses on the role of drawing in academic training at the Royal Academy.
After receiving a B.A. in art history and European history from Northwestern University, she completed a MA through the Graduate Program in the History of Art at Williams College. Prior to UVA, she worked in digital media at the Jewish Museum, and held internships at the Clark Art Institute and the New York Public Library.
Ostertag
Isabelle Ostertag is a doctoral candidate researching English medieval architecture under Dr. Lisa Reilly. Her dissertation, "Porta Caeli: Lay Piety and Marian Devotion in the Parochial Lady Chapels of East Anglia,” analyzes lay Marian devotion in medieval England through an examination of parochial chapels dedicated to the Virgin Mary in East Anglia. She received a Master of Philosophy in History of Art and Architecture from the University of Cambridge where she studied under the supervision of Dr. Paul Binski.
Marine
Jennifer Marine is a doctoral candidate in the History of Art program working under the direction of Professor Douglas Fordham. Her dissertation, Registering the Invisible in Fin de-Siècle Europe, examines late-nineteenth-century European technologies such as photography, X-rays, and sound recording devices to offer a broader understanding of representational practices at this moment in the history of modernism. Her research questions center around intersections of the history of science, technology, media studies, and gender. Over th
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