Latifpour
Elnaz is a Ph.D. student in the History of Art & Architecture graduate program at the University of Virginia. Moreover, she is a research fellow in Indigenous Studies (IDF) and a junior fellow in the Society of Fellows (SOF) at UVA.
Graduate Students
Del Dago
Alex Del Dago (he/him) is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Art & Architectural History graduate program at the University of Virginia. Working with David Getsy, Alex studies and writes in the field of Modern & Contemporary American Art, with an emphasis on gender & sexuality, queer studies, and social/political art and material culture.
Fan
Huajie (Catherine) Fan is a first-year doctoral student studying medieval Buddhist art with Professor Dorothy Wong. Before joining UVA in 2022, Catherine graduated from SOAS University of London with an MA in History of Art and Archaeology. The master's thesis at SOAS, entitled "An Iconological Study of the Uṣṇīṣavijayā Cult in Dunhuang," explored different stages of the Uṣṇīṣavijayā cult in Dunhuang from the eighth to thirteenth century to reveal distinctive localized development of this cult.
Madrigal
Emily is a PhD student in Art & Architectural History studying with Dr. Sarah Betzer. Emily’s research focuses on the materials of sculpture, specifically plaster in nineteenth-century France.
Jimoh
Ganiyu Jimoh is a PhD candidate in the History of Art and Architecture program. His research interest is in Africa's modern and contemporary visual culture, focusing on digital arts.
Doucette
Thomas
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.
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