Adeline Anderson
Adeline is studying Ancient Mediterranean art, with emphasis on Classical Reception. She is increasingly interested in theory surrounding the reception of art throughout history and recently works closely with Medusa’s image. She is a first-year master’s student and hopes to gain both her Master of Art History and a Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies, as she wishes to pursue museum work in her future.
Lizi Anderson-Cleary
Lizi studies modern Latin American and European art, exploring the ways in which war, revolution, and political upheaval shape avant-garde movements. Her research also examines decolonial feminism and its ties to political ecology, analyzing their impact on artistic expression and cultural narratives.
Alexa Davidson
Alexa is interested in Greek Architecture with an emphasis on the Late Classical to Hellenistic period. They are particularly interested in how Greek culture is interpreted and hybridized with other cultures across the Mediterranean and how these interactions affect the built environment.
Aidyn Dervaes
Aidyn studies contemporary art with a focus on how it preserves narratives and fosters connections among people. Aidyn intends to explore how modern artistic practices can capture and communicate diverse experiences and histories. Her academic journey is led by a deep commitment to understanding how art serves as a bridge between individuals, illuminating shared human experiences. Aidyn’s study reflects her belief in the transformative power of art to connect and inspire.
Stormy Dubois
Stormy studies Early Modern European visual culture with a particular interest in religious artwork. She is interested in the relationship between imaged martyrs and body relics, the performance of gender in daily life, and how both may be explored through depictions of death.
Emily Erickson
Emily studies ancient Mediterranean art with an emphasis on the material culture of the eastern Roman provinces. She is particularly interested in exploring how architecture and space express cultural identity on the periphery of empire and in areas of hybridity.
Michelle Fieser
My interests are in Modern American architecture, National and State Parks, and Environmental History. Specifically, I study the relationship between wilderness advocacy and park landscape and architectural design.
Mew Jiang
Mew Jiang studies the reinterpretation of signs and meaning-making of images in designs of the Latin-Italo/Portuguese-patterned karuta Japanese playing cards in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Japan. Mew’s research interests include Edo-period visual and material culture, interregional exchange of art and design in premodern East Asia, and contemporary museum practices for East Asian art.
Jessica M. Johnson
Jessica M. Johnson studies Early Modern art with an emphasis on 17th and 18th-century British art and its global contexts. She is particularly interested in portraiture and the visual representation of people of color during this period.
Patricia McCall
Patricia McCall studies Medieval art with a special emphasis on sacred spaces in Christian and Jewish structures. She is particularly interested in the creation of sacrality and the ways in which buildings can function as multivalent spaces.
Ali Nemati Abkenar
Coming from an Archaeology background, Ali studies cultural exchange and the mutual cultural and artistic relationships between the Iranian world, Central Asia, and East Asia, particularly the regions along the various branches of the Silk Road, based on archaeological data and findings such as pottery, textiles, and paintings. His research interests also include the study of artistic innovations in Iranian art and architecture during the Qajar era (1789-1925) in Iran. Additionally, he is interested in examining the Iranian society's perception of the concept of art and its significance and importance during the Islamic period, with an emphasis on the scholarly value of less-studied sources such as mystical and philosophical texts written in Persian and Arabic
Destiny Pindell
Destiny (Des) Pindell studies modern and contemporary artistic practices with a focus on
traditional techniques of craft in the contemporary landscape, and the nuances these
narratives carry. Drawing from a background in studio art, their research centers on three dimensional works using natural materials to foreground cultural values, traditional
knowledge, and reciprocal relationships between artistic practice, land, stewardship, and
community. Their work engages questions of cultural and material inheritance, ecological
responsibility, and the importance of relationships that bind people to place. In addition, Destiny is interested in preservation ethics, folkloric perspectives on cultural transmission, and stewardship-based museum practices.
Rebecca Schultz
Rebecca Schultz is interested in exploring the structures of meaning encoded in the visual representation of women in French prints and engravings produced during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras. Her research examines the complex interplay between visual rhetoric and social upheaval and its far-reaching impact on political discourse, legislative frameworks, and systems of power. She has also cultivated an interest in the broader theoretical and philosophical inquiries into the ontology of art and the fungibility of the meaning of art when it becomes a financial asset.
Rebecca earned a BA from UC Berkeley and worked as a content manager and editor in tech. She currently works for the Composition Program in the Department of English at the University of Oregon.
Tori Stevenson
Tori studies modern Latin American/Caribbean and European art, exploring the ways in which cultural, social, and political movements are shared, adapted, and transformed through artistic movements and exchanges in these regions. Her research also examines the interplay of the work of influential Caribbean philosophers in these spheres and the construction of the term “outsider art.”