Department Highlights
Alumni News
Graduate
Emmi Farrell, MA in Art History and Museum Studies, 2023 has accepted a position as a Collection Care Specialist at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston
Maria Bastos-Stanek, MA in Art History, 2022 is attending Southern Methodist University's PhD program in art history and continuing her studies in Modern and Contemporary Art and Architecture in Brazil
Gray Golding, MA in Art History, 2022 is attending UC San Diego's PhD program in Communications
Franklin Redner, MA in Art History 2022, has joined the Peabody Essex Museum's Native American Fellowship Program for 2022-23.
Christine Evers, MA in Art History and Museum Studies 2021, is the Curatorial Research Associate for Provenance at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Micayla Bransfield, MA in an Art History, 2020, Research Associate, Modern and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Fiona Dang, MA in Art History 2019, is the Curatorial Department Coordinator at Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, WA.
Whitney Kite, MA in Art History 2018, currently a PhD candidate in Art History at Columbia University, is a co-winner of the International Center of Medieval Art's 2020 student essay award competition for her essay "The Madonna's Magic Carpet: The Construction of Presence in an Armenian Tympanum Relief".
Kristen Nassif, MA in Art History 2016, successfully defended her PhD in May 2022, and is now a Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow at The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, MD
Christine Garnier, MA in Art History 2015, assistant professor of art history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Trained in visual and material histories of North America, she analyzes how objects reveal and distort histories of extraction, transcultural circulation, and ecologies throughout the Intermountain West.
Laura Beshears, MA in Art History and Museum Studies 2014, is the Art & Curatorial Manager at Farmboy Fine Arts® in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Sonja Gandert, MA in Art History and Museum Studies 2013, is a PhD student in Art History at The Graduate Center, CUNY. She is a co-founder and Executive Committee member of the U.S. Latinx Art Forum (USLAF), a College Art Association affiliated group that advocates for Latinx art and art history.
Brinker Ferguson, MA in Art History 2012, Interest in museums, digital media, and education stems from a need to understand how digital repositories and interactive media can connect disparate groups and foster connection and creativity on a whole. Currently she is a post-doc fellow through the Neukom Institute for Computational Science at Dartmouth College.
Tamara Golan, MA in Art History 2012, is a Tenure Track Junior Medievalist at the University of Chicago.
Taylor Poulin, MA in Art History 2011, is the Curator of American Art at the Terra Foundation, recently couriered Gallery at the Louvre of 1831-33 by Samuel Morse for a long term loan to the Harvard Art Museums. Along with Horace Ballard, (Associate Curator of American Art at Harvard Art Museums), Miriam Stewart, (Curator of the collection Division of European and American Art to 1900) at Harvard Art Museum, the three supervised the installation.
Alicia LaTores, MA in Art History 2011, is the Friends of Art Curatorial Research Assistant at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College. In fall 2019 she co-curated the exhibition Hidden Histories: Revealing the Life of a Painting at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College.
Ginny Soenksen, MA in Art History 2010, is the Director of Madison Art Collection & Lisanby Museum at James Madison University in Virginia. She received an impressive and hard-to-come-by Japan Foundation Fellowship for Research on Japanese Art (2024-25), awarded jointly with the Ishibashi Foundation. She will spend two months this summer in Japan to work on textiles
Tamar Avishai, MA in Art History 2008, launched The Lonely Palette, a podcast that returns art history to the masses, one painting at a time.
Michelle Apotsos, MA in Art History 2007, is an Associate Professor and Chair of Art History at Williams College. She received her PhD from Stanford University in 2013, where she specialized in Afro-Islamic architecture and creative production. She is a former Research Associate at the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution (Washington D.C.) and a former Research Fellow at both the University of Cape Town (Cape Town, South Africa), and the University of the Free State (Bloemfontein, South Africa).
John Corso-Esquival, MA in Art History 2003, is an Associate Professor at Davidson College, teaching courses in contemporary, modern, and Latin American art.
Erin McGough, MA in Art History and Museum Studies 2003, on January 3, 2022 begins her new role as the Executive Director of the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA
Mark Lamster, MA in Art History 1994, has published the biography The Man in The Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century (Little, Brown & Company, 2018).
Undergraduate
Emilia Cottingnoli, BA in History of Art and Architecture 2022, is going to Stanford University's PhD program in Art History
Ayden Crosby, BA in Architectural Studies 2021, received a Fulbright Scholarship and is doing independent research at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. He explains, “I focus on the history of scientific forestry and deforestation in 18th-century Prussia and its ties globally, especially in relation to California's forest and wildfire history.”
Cecelia Rosenman, BA in Art History 2020, is a paralegal at Clark Lau LLC in Boston.
Susan Janowsky, BA in Art History 2018, is the Auction Coordinator at Skinner Auctioneers and Appraisers in Boston.
Madeleine Onstwedder, BA in Art History 2018, has begun a position as the UX Research with the Executive Office of Technology Services and Security Digital Service.
Natalie Naor, BA in Art History 2015, is the Conservation Technician, Columbia University, New York, NY.
Scarlett Engle, BA in Art History 2015, is the Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Colorado Boulder. Research focuses, public archeology and cultural heritage among native Americans.
Talia Lieber, BA in Art History 2013, is a PhD student at UCLA with a focus on historic African art. Has extensive travel experience, including conducting independent research in Kigali, Rwanda. Former Curatorial Assistant for the Arts of Africa, Fulbright research fellow. As the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies, she is pleased to announce the publication of their latest issue (42.1), featuring the artwork of Innocent Nkurunziza on the cover!
Kaeli Deane, BA in Art History 2010, is the Director at Lisson Gallery in Los Angeles, CA
Mae-ling Lokko, BA in Architectural Studies 2010, is an Assistant Professor in the Yale School of Architecture and is an architectural scientist, designer and educator from Ghana and the Philippines who works with agrowaste and renewable biobased materials. More about Mae-ling
Sarah Cowan, BA in Art History 2009, as of September 2021 is the Senior Video Producer in Charge of All Video Production at the Museum of Modern Art. Check out the "At The Museum" MoMA's video channel on YouTube