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Vanina D'Ambrosio |
M.A. Art History, California State University, Long Beach
B.A. English Literature, Sonoma State University
MA Thesis: "Florentine Statecraft: Sensuality, Emotion, and Violence in the Patronage of Cosimo I De’ Medici"
Research Interests: Early modern Queer studies & visual culture, Italian & Mediterranean art, self-fashioning & gender performance via portraiture, renaissance green space, cross cultural contact between Italy and the Islamic world, manuscripts & devotional texts.
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Lyle Massey | vdambros@uci.edu | |
Hannah Grissom |
B.A., Art History (Honors), French, Studio Art, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte Research Interest: Guy Debord and spectacle, modern and contemporary art history, Marxist theory, and traces of transhistorical encounters (alternate constructions of time and history) that artworks produce. |
Tyrus Miller | hgrissom@uci.edu | |
Simin Amini |
M.A., Art History, Alzahra University. Tehran, Iran Research interests: Ancient Iran Art and Archaeology, Persian mythology and literature, Zoroastrianism, Islamic Art art and Archaeology, Museum Studies. |
Matthew Canepa |
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Amirali Ardekanian |
B.A., Art History, University of California, Los Angeles Research Interests: The History of Photography in Iran, The reception of Ancient Iran during 19th and 20th Century, Iran.
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Alka Patel Co-advisor: Matthew Canepa |
aardekan@uci.edu |
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Cienna Benn |
B.A., Afro-American Studies, Sociology, Howard University Research Interests: Black visual culture, Africana aesthetics, visuality, social theory, archival studies, history of photography, Black feminist thought, Digital Humanities. |
Bridget Cooks |
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Agnik Bhattacharya |
M.A., History, Presidency University, Kolkata, India Research interests: the archaeological, social and political histories of pre- Islamic eastern Iranian world and Central Asia. I was awarded the John F. Richards Afghanistan Research Fellowship in Spring 2023 by the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies. Additionally, I received the Laura Bassi Editorial Scholarship in Winter 2023, awarded by the Bassi Foundation. |
Matthew Canepa |
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Samantha Carter |
M.A., New Media and Digital Cultures, University of Amsterdam
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Bridget Cooks |
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Zane Casimir |
M.A., Art History, University of Oregon Research Interests: Spaces of Play; Japanese Design-of-Environment; Modern Architecture, Landscape Design, and Sculpted Space; Japanese Art, Material/Visual culture, and Performance Traditions; Video game and Play Studies; Contemporary Reception of Art Historical ideas and forms (i.e. Semiotics, Kitsch, Reproductions and Digital/Virtual Re-presentations). |
Bert Winther-Tamaki |
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Melissa DePierro |
M.A., Art History, University of Georgia Research Interest: Cross cultural interactions between Persian and Greco-Roman empires, animals in antiquity, Roman mosaics, Roman North Africa, Achemenid Egypt, Late antiquity.
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Matthew Canepa | mdepierr@uci.edu |
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Ileana De Giuseppe |
M.A. (Summa cum laude), History, Preservation and Enhancement of the Artistic and Archaeological Heritage and Landscape, University of Bologna, Ravenna, Italy Research Interest: Achaemenid Art and Archaeology, Hellenistic Art and Archaeology, Museum Studies, Communication of the Cultural Heritage. |
Mathew Canepa |
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Haerin Do |
M.A., Art Theory, Hongik University, Korea Research Interests: Korean art, modern and contemporary art, digital art, new media theory, computational and generative art, post-colonialism studies, science and technology studies, media art preservation.
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Gabrielle Jung |
hrdo@uci.edu |
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Kelly Donahey |
M.F.A., Art, University of California, Irvine, M.A., University of California, Irvine Research Interests: 20th century American media art and the avant-garde; mass culture; labor; the history of American Leftism, photography, art and design pedagogy, and the professional art world; Marxist, pragmatic, cybernetic, postmodern, and aesthetic theory; the conceptualization of nationalism, the public, individualism, and freedom. |
Catherine Liu |
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Sarah Fugfugosh-Munoz |
M.A., California State University, Los Angeles
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Lyle Massey |
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Anthony Graham |
M.S., Critical, Curatorial, Conceptual, Columbia University, New York Research Interests: contemporary art, materiality, and embodiment. |
Bridget Cooks |
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Talia Gordon |
B.A., English, minor in Art History and Global Medieval Studies, University of Pennsylvania Research Interests: Medieval period, materiality of the medieval Eastern Orthodox icon, the icon in cultural transition with particular attention paid to the circulation of religious objects from the Byzantine center into both Italian and Eastern European cultural contexts. |
Roland Betancourt |
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Zachary Korol Gold |
M.A., Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine Dissertation:"Reconfiguring Nature, Technology, and Sense: Pierre Huyghe's Situated Artworks" Research Interests: Contemporary art, ecology, ecocriticism, alternative agriculture, land and environmental art, phenomenology. |
James Nisbet |
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Nastasya Kosygina |
M.A., Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine Research Interests: Byzantine studies, subaltern studies, water, infrastructure, premodern Mediterranean, Rome, Constantinople, geology, urban archaeology, material culture, Greek and Syriac paleography, classical and postclassical reception. |
Matthew Canepa |
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Bermet Nishanova |
M.S. in Art Conservation, Institute of Fine Arts NYU, M.A., Art History, University of Chicago Dissertation: "Entangled Materialities: Medieval Textiles in Central Asia, Iran, and India (9th to 13th Centuries C.E.)” Research interests: Textiles, medieval production techniques, scientific analysis, art conservation, medieval Persian literature, and Islamic and South Asian art and architecture.
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Alka Patel and Matthew Canepa |
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Zoe Hing-Portnoff |
M.A., Art History, UC Irvine
B.A., Art History, UC Irvine
Research Interests: Asian diaspora, surveillance, colonial constructions of race, gender, and national identity.
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Roberta Wue | zportnof@uci.edu |
Lee Purvey |
B.A., Anthropology, Grinnell College Research Interests: Modern architecture in Mexico and the United States; the influence of pre-Columbian monumental architecture and Indigenous vernacular building practices on modern and contemporary architecture; the intersections between the fields of archaeology, anthropology, and architecture; functionalism. |
Abigail Lapin Dardashti |
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Luis Eduardo Serna |
M.A., Art and Ecologism, Universidad de Colombia, Colombia, South America Research Interests: Contemporary artistic practices focused on social justice processes, the Colombian peace process, narratives and representations of victims in the armed conflict in Colombia, representation of otherness, controversy mapping as a way to expand disciplined forms of analysis. |
Glen Mimura and Allison Perlman |
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Bryan Truitt |
M.A., Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine Research Interests: digital media, biopolitics, cultural studies, feminist and queer theory, science and technology studies, critical race theory, social and environmental justice. |
Aaron Trammell |
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Jianda(Dada) Wang |
M.A., Art History, University of California, Davis Research Interests: Modern and contemporary Chinese art, Asian American art, performance and affect, abstraction and Illegibility. |
Roberta Wue |
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Siavash Yansori |
M.A, Film&Media Studies, Columbia University Research Interests: Iranian and Middle Eastern Cinema, Melodrama, History of Photography, Postcolonialism, Gender, and Queer Studies. |
Kristen Hatch |
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Xinyue (Lulu) Yuan |
M.A. (with distinction), History of Art and Archeology, University of London Dissertation: "Ambient Paper: Wartime Migration and Modern Chinese Artists' Books, 1932-1948" Research Interests: Modern Chinese Art and Visual Culture in a Global Context, Transnationalism, Mobility Studies, Wartime Modernism, Space, Experience, Art and Media Technologies. |
Roberta Wue |
Ph.D. Program in Visual Studies
3000 Humanities Gateway
Irvine, CA 92697-2435