AY 2019-2020 Graduate Student Accomplishments

Our graduate students continue to impress and represent our department well year after year. We take this opportunity to congratulate our students on their hard work and highlight some of their accomplishments as we move into a new academic year.

Michelle Al-Ferzly

  • Midwest Art History Society Distinguished Presentation Award
  • Henry P. Tappan Award for Teaching
  • Curatorial Intern, Dallas Museum of Art

Madeleine Aquilina

  • Presented a paper at the P+ARG Biennial Conference, Taubman College of Architecture
  • Received a grant to attend a Digital Humanities Summer Institute in Vancouver

Carlo Berardi

  • ANAMED Residential Doctoral Fellowship, Koç University, Istanbul

Ross Bernhaut

  • Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowship
  • Organizer and co-chair of a panel at the upcoming Biennial Symposium of the Historians of Islamic Art Association
  • Presented a paper at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta as part of the Transregional Academy – India and the World: New Arcs of Knowledge
  • Curatorial Fellow, San Diego Museum of Art

Katherine Campbell

  • Published an article in the Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts
  • Recipient of a Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship

Haely Chang

  • Rackham International Student Fellowship
  • Curatorial Intern, University of Michigan Museum of Art

Emily Cornish

  • Presented a paper at the College Art Association conference in Chicago
  • Huntington Library Research Fellowship
  • Huntington Library Travel Grant to the UK

James Denison

  • Rackham Humanities Award
  • Davidson Family Fellowship
  • Presented a paper at the College Art Association Conference in Chicago

Susan Dine

  • Curated an exhibition at the University of Michigan Museum of Art

Isabelle Gillet

  • Co-curated an exhibition at the Audubon Gallery, Hatcher Graduate Library

Vishal Khandelwal

  • Received a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship for the 2020-21 academic year
  • Gave an invited talk at an Emerging Scholars Colloquium, The Decorative Arts Trust and Classical American Homes Preservation Trust, New York City

 

Jordan Koel

  • Medieval and Early Modern Studies Summer Award
  • Ilene Forsyth Dissertation Award

Sean Kramer

  • Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship
  • Chapter in an edited book, Male Bonds in Nineteenth-Century Art (forthcoming)
  • Exhibition scheduled to open at the University of Michigan Museum of Art later this year

Brenna Larson

  • Kress Institutional Fellowship at the Kunsthistorisches Institut-Max Planck Institute, Florence.

Holley Ledbetter

  • Hamid Bin Khalifa Symposium Fellowship
  • Rackham Humanities Award

Rheagan Martin

  • Samuel H. Kress Institutional Fellowship, Courtauld and Warburg Institutes, London
  • Tappan Award for Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Studies
  • Diane Owen Hughes Scholar, Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Robert Morrissey

  • Freer Fellowship, Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

Jun Nakamura

  • Samuel H. Kress Institutional Fellowship, Leiden University
  • Published an article in the Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art
  • Suzanne Andrée Curatorial Fellowship at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Megan Pounds

  • Presented a paper at the Great Lakes Association for Sound Studies
  • Presented a paper at a Biannual Graduate Student Conference organized by the Germanic Languages and Literatures Department.
  • Rackham Research Award

 

Chanon Kenji Praepipatmongkol

  • Published an article in British Art Studies
  • Article forthcoming in the Oxford Art Journal
  • Received a Connecting Art Histories Fellowship from The Getty Foundation

 

Soyoon Ryu

  • Article forthcoming in a South Korean journal published by Sicheongak
  • Curator of an upcoming exhibition at Bongpyeong Small Museum in South Korea

Stephanie Triplett

  • Recipient of a Rackham One-Term Dissertation Fellowship
  • Article published in Journal 18

Dylan Volk

  • Paper accepted for presentation at the National Women’s Studies Conference
  • Research assistant for Prof. Anna Watkins Fischer

 

Gerui Wang

  • Curatorial Intern, Worchester Museum of Art
  • Presented a paper at a workshop at Harvard University

 

Sarah Wheat

  • Presented a paper at the College Art Association conference in Chicago

Courtney Wilder

  • Science History Institute Fellowship, Philadelphia
  • Offered predoctoral fellowships from The Getty Institute and the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the 2020-21 academic year
  • Presented a paper at the College Art Association conference in Chicago

Sandra Williams

  • Article forthcoming in the Getty Research Journal
  • Critical Language Scholarship and Foreign Language and Area Studies Awards
  • Curatorial Intern, University of Michigan Museum of Art
  • Curatorial Fellow, San Diego Museum of Art

Youngshin Yook

  • Curatorial Intern, University of Michigan Museum of Art
  • Curatorial Intern, Dallas Museum of Art