Department of Art History

The Department of Art History is proud to celebrate its graduating doctoral students for the 2021-22 academic year. We wish them the best as they embark on the next phase of their careers.

 

Nancy Lin 

"Making Spaces: Site-Based Practice in Contemporary Chinese Art in the Long 1990s"

Advisor: Wu Hung and Katherine Taylor 

Nancy Lin will be starting as a Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University.

Chloé Pelletier 

"From Gold to Green: Visualizing the Environment in the Italian Renaissance"

Advisor: Niall Atkinson

Chloé Pelletier will be starting as a Curator of European Art at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. 

Katerina Korola 

"How to Photograph the Air: Photography, Cinema, and the Problem of Atmosphere in German Modernism, 1893-1933"

Advisor: Christine Mehring

Katerina Korola spent 2021-2022 as a Humanities Teaching Fellow in the Department of Art History. This year she will be starting as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University's Mahinda Humanities Center and in Fall 2023 will be joining the University of Minnesota as an Assistant Professor of German Studies.

Jesse Lockard 

"From the Ground Up: Yona Friedman and the Postwar Reimagining of Architecture"

Advisor: Katherine Taylor 

Jesse Lockard spent this past year as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Kunsthistorisches Institute in Florenz-Max Planck Institute. This Fall she will be joining Corpus Christi College Oxford as a Junior Research Fellow.

Catalina Ospina

"From Mouth to Hand: Mopa Mopa Images in the Northern Colonial Andes"

Advisor: Claudia Brittenham (previously Cecile A. Fromont) 

Catalina Ospina will be spending the next year continuing as an Interdisciplinary Fellow at the Institute of Sacred Music. In Fall 24 she will be joining the Department of Art History at Yale University as an Assistant Professor.

Xi Zhang

"The City's Pleasures: Urban and Visual Culture of Garden Spaces in Shanghai, 1850s-1930s"

Advisor: Wu Hung

Maggie Borowitz 

"Caught by Surprise: Affect and Feminist Politics in the Art of Magali Lara"

Advisor: Megan Sullivan 

Maggie Borowitz will be staying the University of Chicago Department of Art History as a Humanities Teaching Fellow. 

Yunfei Shao 

"(Re)Making the View: The Shifting Imaginary of West Lake, from the 13th to the 19th Century"

Advisor: Wu Hung

Yunfei Shao will be starting as an Assistant Professor at Central China Normal University.

Christine Zappella

"Monochrome Painting and the Period Body in Andrea del Sarto's Cloister of the Scalzo"

Advisor: Charles Cohen

Dongshan Zhang 

"Making Merit in the Tableau: Early Sixth-Century Chinese Stele"

Advisor: Wu Hung 

Dongshan Zhang will be starting as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Peking University.