After studying Islamic art and architecture at Ain Shams University in Cairo, Walid was appointed as teaching assistant in the Department of Archaeology at the... Read more about Walid Akef
Elena Janney received her BA in Art History and Hispanic Studies, with an English Literature minor in Race and Ethnicity, from Vassar College in 2018. Her... Read more about Elena Janney
Michael graduated from Tsinghua University in spring 2019, receiving his MA in art history and theory with a focus on Chinese Buddhist art and archaeology. His... Read more about Michael Norton
Sarah studies prints and print culture. Her work primarily concerns the place of artistic prints within systems of social interaction, with a focus on the...
Sarah’s research focuses on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art, particularly works on paper, paintings, and design. She is... Read more about Sarah Mallory
Hollie Buttery graduated from the University of East Anglia with a BA in Art History and Literature in 2014, and also completing her masters there in 2016...
Seung Hee Oh received her BA in Chinese Language from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (South Korea, 2011) with Summa Cum Laude and MA in Art History from Seoul National University (South Korea, 2014).... Read more about Seung Hee Oh
Davida Fernandez-Barkan's research focuses on art, the public, and the state in the twentieth century, with an emphasis on murals and photography in the Americas, Europe, and the Soviet Union during the 1920s and 1930s. She is also interested in contemporary art, particularly in performance and social practices. She received an A.B. in the History of Art and Architecture from Harvard University in 2011... Read more about Davida Fernandez-Barkan
I study modern European art, focusing especially on how art mediates between selves and society.
My dissertation asks why Claude Monet often painted alongside other artists. I argue that this practice of working together modeled an interpersonal mode of experience and allowed him to avoid the extremes of self versus world and individual versus society. To that end, I reexamine fundamental aspects of impressionism, both formal and social, through the lens of this understudied practice.... Read more about Harmon Siegel
Sarah Mirseyedi studies nineteenth-century painting, print, and photography, with a focus on the intersections between traditional artistic media and mass image culture. She is currently working on a dissertation project that considers how the invention of mechanical and photomechanical print processes in late-nineteenth century France provided a model for the restructuring and reorganization of artistic labor across various fields of practice, including avant-garde painting.
Before starting her Ph.D. at Harvard University, Veronika studied History of Art and Middle Eastern studies in Vienna, Istanbul, and Leiden. Her doctoral... Read more about Veronika Poier
Steffani Bennett graduated with honors from the University of Washington with a major in art history and a minor in Japanese language. She entered the Ph.D. program at Harvard in 2012 in the field of Japanese art history. Steffani specializes in pre-modern Japanese painting, focusing on the history and development of ink painting and Chinese-style painting of the Muromachi period (1334-1573). Within this realm, Steffani is especially interested in East Asian cross-cultural exchange,... Read more about Steffani Bennett
