Gabriela is interested in Medieval art with an emphasis on gothic architecture and the architecture of religious spaces. She is particularly interested in thinking about how people use and engage with space. She approaches this research seeking to leverage technology as a research tool wherever possible.

gchitwoo@uoregon.edu

Lauren's main research-interests include Japanese pottery, architecture, folklore, Shinto, illustrations/paintings, and manga. Lauren is also interested in the textiles of kimonos and yukatas, though she has not had the chance to delve into this area yet. Lauren doesn't focus on a specific period or region as she believes they are all interconnected. She is instead drawn to the close connection that Japan as a country and culture have with nature, the craftsman/workshops, and how this is seen in their art from the rough and natural pottery styles to the wood/timber “traditional” buildings to the spirits that reside in almost everything around them.

ldaw@uoregon.edu

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.

sdubois@uoregon.edu

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.

eerickso@uoregon.edu

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.

mfieser@uoregon.edu

Kristen Freissle studies Ancient Roman art with a primary focus on bathing practices in antiquity. Her research analyzes how Italian bath house art and architecture work in conjunction with one another to produce an ethereal experience for the bather when viewed simultaneously during the early centuries of the Roman Empire.

kristenf@uoregon.edu

Margaryta Golovchenko (she/her) is interested in 18th and 19th century French art, with a focus on portraits of women with animals. Her broader research focus includes human-animal relationships, posthumanism, queer-ecology, and object-oriented ontology. She is a settler-immigrant from Toronto, Canada and received an HBA from the University of Toronto (Specialist: Art History, Major: Comparative Literature) and an MA in Art History with a Curatorial Studies Diploma from York University. She is also a poet and freelance critic.

mgolovch@uoregon.edu

Taylor Hayes studies ancient Mediterranean art with an emphasis in Greek sculpture and architecture. He is particularly interested in ritual space in the Greek and Roman worlds, as well as the way antiquity has been utilized by artists throughout time.

thayes2@uoregon.edu

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.

mewj@uoregon.edu

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.

jjohns32@uoregon.edu

Jon Kerr studies ancient Mediterranean art and material culture with an interest in the intersection of race, gender, and social status in the representations of the sub-elite, particularly those involved in food production. Additionally, he is enthusiastic about cultural exchange and hybridity in art.

jonk@uoregon.edu

Harper Loeb studies art of the Americas with an emphasis on 19th-century American landscape painting. She is particularly interested in using landscape painting to reconstruct historic forest conditions in the northeastern U.S.

hloeb@uoregon.edu

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.

pkrupin3@uoregon.edu

Emily Moore studies modern and avant-garde art with an emphasis on early abstract film and livres d'artistes. She is interested in creative collaboration, the role of the spectator and processes of production. Outside of her graduate studies, Emily works as an archivist in Special Collections and University Archives at UO Libraries. 

mlemoore@uoregon.edu

Raechel Root’s work focuses on the intersection of modern and contemporary art and issues of space, landscape, urbanism, and environment. Within that realm, she has researched land-based practices, participatory art and design, aesthetics of gentrification, critical cartography, queer ecology, feminist spatial practice, flanerie, public art, and contemporary architecture.

rhr@uoregon.edu

Tatymn (they/them) studies ancient Mediterranean art with an emphasis on the Hellenistic period. They are primarily interested in exploring how gender, cultural identity, class, and ethnic identity play a role in material culture. They are also interested in implementing computing and various digital technologies in humanities research, including for art history.

tatymns@uoregon.edu

Tori studies Modern art with an emphasis in Surrealism and international avant-gardes. She is particularly interested in exploring the non-Eurocentric movements of Surrealism and the intersection between art and politics during times of civil unrest.

toris@uoregon.edu

Joe Sussi is interested in the art of the Americas with an emphasis on contemporary environmental art practices, post-nature, ecocritical art history, land-use politics, nuclear aesthetics, and truth-formation.

jsussi@uoregon.edu