Student and Alumni News
Current Students
The department's second year MA students hosted a successful Graduate Student Symposium: Praxis and Promise: Reenvisioning Art Historical Methodologies for Cultural Heritage with Keynote Speaker Nadirah Monsour, Assistant Curator Islamic Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The event took place on Friday, April 18, 2025.
Kate Haggarty, MA Art History 2026, received The Tisch Library Graduate Fellowship in the Arts and Humanities for summer 2025. Kate’s thesis explores the Symbolist and psychological ideologies of the late 1800s, using Alfred Maury and Hervey de Saint-Denys’s early conceptualization of the dream state as a framework for understanding Odilon Redon’s lithographic series Dans le rêve. As the psychologists defined the dream as a chimeric blend of memory and imagination, the artist employed this emerging idea to communicate the fragmented, complex experiences and anxieties that permeated fin-de-siécle France, ultimately asserting this period as a moment of intense societal metamorphosis. Kate will draw upon art historical and psychological sources in Tisch Library’s Special Collections, in particular James Sully’s 1880 Sensation and Intuition, Joesph Haven’s 1857 Mental Philosophy, and George Bush’s 1845 The Soul; Or, an Inquiry into Scriptural Psychology.
Graduate Student Alumni
Anahit Gasparyan, MA Art History 2025, is the newly appointed Curator at the Armenian Museum of America in Watertown, MA
Nick Nemeth, MA Art History and Museum Studies 2025, during the summer after graduation Nick served as the Exhibition Planning and Administration Intern at MoMA. Following that summer internship he was awarded the inaugural Registrar Fellowship at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Kate Criscitiello, MA Art History and Museum Studies 2023, received the Marcia Brady Tucker Fellowship at the Yale University Art Gallery in the American Art department
María Fernanda Mancera, MA in Art History and Museum Studies 2023, begins a new position as the Assistant Curator, Indigenous Art at the RISD Museum in Providence, RI
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
Megan Zembower, MA in Art History 2021, is the Associate Project Manager - The Lumiere Group in Seattle, WA
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, for the 2024-25 academic year, she will be a residential fellow at the Getty Center
Joe Semkiu, MA in Art History 2018, is working on his PhD at University of Southern California in American art has received a Smithsonian American Art Museum Predoctoral Fellowship for the coming year to advance his dissertation work. This is a residential grant and will place him in one of the centers of Americanist art-historical activity for 2025-26, not to mention our nation’s capitol
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.
Madison Treece, MA in Art History and Museum Studies 2015, received a PhD in Visual Studies with an emphasis in Latin American and Latino Studies from UC Santa Cruz in 2024. She is now a Professor of Art History at Savanah College of Art and Design
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
Isabel Dmitruk, MA in Art History and Museum Studies 2009, is a Assistant Cooperative Education Faculty at the College of Arts, Media and Design (CAMD) at Northeastern University
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)
Anna Myjak-Pycia, MA in Art History 2004, Senior Researcher at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta), ETH Zürich, published a book Another Modernism: Home Economics and the Design of Domestic Space in the US, 1900-1960 with Bloomsbury Press and an article “The Peripheral Interior and People as Infrastructure: Adopting the Sewer System for Passage” in The Journal of Architecture"
John Corso-Esquival, MA in Art History 2003, is an Associate Professor at Davidson College, teaching courses in contemporary, modern, and Latin American art
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 Student Alumni
Ashton Dudley, BA in Art History 2025, in enrolled in the MA program in Art History at Columbia University and working for the Outsider Art Fair on the side.
Grace Rotermund, BA in Art History 2024, is an MA Student at the University of Chicago Divinity School | Regenstein Rare Books Assistant
Maureen Li, BA in Art History and Cognitive Brain Science 2023, is the Digital Marketing Technology Manager at Emerson Health, Concord, MA
Mallory Baus, BA in Architectural Studies and Civil Engineering 2022, is a Associate Project Consultant at Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, in Medford, MA
Emilia Cottingnoli, BA in History of Art and Architecture 2022, is going to Stanford University's PhD program in Art History.
Elletra Conoly, BA in Art History 2021, received a MA in Medieval Studies, Kings College London, is now the Special Collections manuscript specialist in the Tisch Library at Tufts University
Ayden Crosby, BA in Architectural Studies 2021, is a Reporter at 9fin in New York City
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
Alex Goodhouse, BA in Art History 2014, is an English Language teacher at Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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
Archived Newsletters
Enjoy reading our annual newsletters in pdf format: