Graduate Students
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
O'Donnell
Brendan O’Donnell joins the Department of Art as a first year PhD student working with Christa Robbins and Douglas Fordham. His research focuses on art and artistic practice in and of the Arctic. Prior to his arrival in Charlottesville, Brendan studied comparative literary theory and philosophy at Freie Universität in Berlin, Ca’ Foscari in Venice, and the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth.
Polos
Stephanie Polos is in her third year in the Program for Mediterranean Art and Archaeology, studying under Dr. Tyler Jo Smith. Her current research focuses on the use and iconography of fifth- and fourth-century Greek grave monuments and the intersections of art, belief, and funerary practice.
Brose
Karl is a fourth-year doctoral candidate working under the direction of Professor Sarah Betzer. He studies early modern European sculpture with a focus on the Old Regime, ancient sculpture and the rise of aesthetic theory. Karl's dissertation examines the work of the French sculptor Edme Bouchardon, centering his Roman period between 1723-1732.
Carter
Caroline Carter is a 5th year Ph.D. candidate in the Program in Mediterranean Art and Archaeology studying Classical Archaeology under Dr. Tyler Jo Smith. Her research interests are interdisciplinary, focusing on ancient Greek religion and ritual (primarily during the Archaic and Classical periods), myth and iconography, animal studies, the archaeology of sacred landscapes, and the regions of Attica and Arcadia in Greece.
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