![]() | Allen, Lily (Doctoral Candidate) lily.allen@email.ucr.edu Areas of interest: 19th and early twentieth century art of the United States and Europe, particularly Spain and France. Asian American art history. Early history of photography, particularly on the West Coast. My dissertation explores the pan-Pacific social and artistic milieu of Los Angeles in the 1920s and 30s, and the unique modernist painting style that arose from it, through the lives and works of artists Stanton Macdonald Wright, Benji Okubo, Hideo Date, and Mabel Alvarez. Awards/Fellowships: 2023-2024: Tyson Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art 2023-2024 Center for Ideas and Society Humanities Graduate Student Research Award 2023-2024 UCR Dissertation Year Program Fellowship 2022-2023 Center for Ideas and Society Humanities Graduate Student Research Award 2022-2023 Barbara B. Brink Travel Award 2021-2022 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award 2019 California Museum of Photography Curatorial Fellowship |
![]() | Arnold, H.C. (Doctoral Candidate) homer.arnold@email.ucr.edu Areas of Interest: His current research examines how a Los Angeles-based exhibition initiative named Carp developed a curatorial response to the social and political shifts in both American culture and art practice from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. His project engages in both curatorial studies and regional art histories. Awards/Fellowships: 2021 Francoise Forster-Hahn Research Travel Award 2020 Dean's Distinguished Fellowship 2019 Gluck Fellows Program of the Arts Fellowship 2019 Ernest Propes Endowed Graduate Fellowship 2019 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award |
![]() | Blackman, Kyrie (MA Program) kyrie.blackman@email.ucr.edu Areas of Interest: Black art and Japanese art and where they intersect through manga, anime, and cosplaying. |
![]() | Bond, Molly (Doctoral Candidate) molly.bond@email.ucr.edu Areas of Interest: 15th- to 17th-century Italian sculpture and sculptural practice, with a special interest in the history and historiography of Cinquecento Italian relief sculpture. Her current research examines late 16th-century bronze relief of the Marche region through the prism of spatiality at a multitude of scales — from the bodily to the regional — and across a series of physical, symbolic, and representational locations. Awards/Fellowships: 2021 Jean Rose Warnke Research Award 2020-2021 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award 2020 Richard G. Carrott Graduate Travel Award 2017-2018 Gluck Fellows Program of the Arts Fellowship |
![]() | Carleton, Elizabeth (Doctoral Program) elizabeth.carleton@email.ucr.edu Areas of Interest: Print culture of 17th-century Europe Awards/Fellowships: 2022-2023 Gluck Fellows Program of the Arts Fellowship at UCR Arts 2021-2022 Gluck Fellows Program of the Arts Fellowship at UCR Arts 2021-2022 UC Riverside Chancellor’s Distinguished Fellowship |
![]() | Citino, Emily (Doctoral Program) emily.citino@email.ucr.edu Areas of Interest: Modern and contemporary Latin American art, performance art and conceptual practices by women artists of the 1960s & 1970s Awards/Fellowships: 2022 California Museum of Photography Curatorial Fellowship |
![]() | Faulk, Sarah (Doctoral Program) sarah.faulk@email.ucr.edu Areas of Interest: Performance, Conceptualism, Video art, Intermedia Art, Artist Documentation, and Text-Based Art. Awards/Fellowships: 2022 Center for Ideas and Society Travel Grant 2022 Gluck Fellowship for the Arts 2021 National Endowment for the Humanities, Color Film Emergency Project Fellow 2020-2021 Chancellor’s Distinguished Fellowship |
![]() | Jackson, Keko (MA Program) kekoa.jackson@email.ucr.edu Areas of Interest: Modern and contemporary art and photography, archival practices and ethnic studies |
![]() | Luo, Becky (MA Program) becky.luo@email.ucr.edu Areas of Interest: Modern and contemporary East-Asian artistic, visual, and material culture Awards/Fellowships: 2021 National Endowment for the Humanities, Color Film Emergency Project Fellow |
![]() | McNelis, Ashley (Doctoral Candidate) ashley.mcnelis@email.ucr.edu Areas of Interest: Dance, performance, photography, video art, feminist theory, labor theory, care Awards/Fellowships: 2023–2024 Barbara B. Brink Graduate Travel Award, Department of the History of Art 2023–2024 Center for Ideas and Society Humanities Graduate Student Research Grant 2023–2024 Gluck Fellowship for Adult Programs at UCR ARTS 2023 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Department of the History of Art 2023 Departmental Grand In Aid for Curatorial Research, Media & Cultural Studies Department 2022–2023 Gluck Fellowship for Adult Programs at UCR ARTS 2021–2022 Gluck Fellowship for Adult Programs at UCR ARTS 2020 California Museum of Photography Curatorial Fellowship |
![]() | Querin, Camilla (Doctoral Candidate) camilla.querin@email.ucr.edu Area of Interest: Contemporary art and photography, with special attention to the intersection between visual arts and politics. Artistic production and curatorial practices developed during the dictatorships that shaped Latin American political and cultural history of the 1960s-1980s. Dissertation title: Dialectics of Malandragem: When Arts Transform the Outcast into a Hero Awards/Fellowships: 2021-2022 University of California’s President’s Dissertation-Year Fellowship 2021 Barbara B. Brink Travel Award 2019-2020 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award in the Department of Art History 2018-2019 CIS Humanities Graduate Student Research Grant and Jean Rowe Warnke Award; 2018-2019 Gluck Fellows Program of the Arts Fellowship 2018 Richard G. Carrott Graduate Travel Award 2017-2018 Gluck Fellows Program of the Arts Fellowship 2016-2017 Gluck Fellows Program of the Arts Fellowship 2016 CMP/UCR Curatorial Fellowship. |
![]() | Reyes, Melissa Nini (MA Program) mreye184@ucr.edu Areas of Interest: Pre-modern - Early Modern Art with an emphasis on French Gothic architecture and Baroque sculptures and painting. Awards/Fellowships: 2022-2023 Gluck Classroom Fellowship Program |
Saden, Alexandre (Doctoral Program) alexandre.saden@email.ucr.edu |
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![]() | Salisbury, Sarah (Doctoral Program) sarah.salisbury@email.ucr.edu Areas of Interest: Modern and contemporary American art, Indigenous North American art and archeology, art and ecology, ecocritical methods. Awards/Fellowships: 2019-2020 Dean’s Distinguished Fellowship |
![]() | Sesma, Athena (MA Program) athena.sesma@email.ucr.edu Areas of Interest: Ethnographic and archeological collections of Mesoamerican art objects in Mexico City from the late 19th century into the 20th century, body modification, metallurgy, and luxury arts of Mesoamerica, specifically the Mexica of Central Mexico. Awards/Fellowships: 2023-2024 The Françoise Forster-Hahn Graduate Travel Award 2023 FLAS Scholarship from Stanford University, Nahuatl Summer Intensive Program at the University of Utah 2022-2023 Gluck Fellows Program of the Arts Fellowship |
![]() | Sklarz, Cambra (Doctoral Candidate) cambra.sklarz@email.ucr.edu Area of Interest: American art of the eighteenth and nineteenth, centuries; materials; ecocriticism. Dissertation Title: The Artist and the Ecosystem: Strategies for the Use and Reuse of Materials in Early America Awards/Fellowships: 2023-2025 Diane and Michael Maher Curatorial Fellow of American Art, Harvard Art Museums 2022-2023 McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Barra Foundation Art and Material Culture Dissertation Fellowship July 2023 The Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, Short-Term Fellowship August 2022 American Philosophical Society, Swan Foundation Short-Term Resident Research Fellowship for Revolutionary-Era Material Culture June-July 2022 American Antiquarian Society, Drawn to Art Fellowship Summer 2022 University of California, Riverside, Graduate Research Mentorship Fellowship 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 UCR Arts, Gluck Fellowship 2020 Decorative Arts Trust Summer Research Grant 2020 Barbara B. Brink Graduate Travel Award 2018-2019 University of California, Riverside, Chancellor’s Distinguished Fellowship Award |
![]() | Valdez, Christian (MA Program) christian.valdez@email.ucr.edu Areas of interest: Esoteric Buddhist Art, Digital Art, Memes, Manga and any work which questions the hegemony of the global order. |
![]() | Varga, Lexie (Doctoral Program) lexie.varga@email.ucr.edu Areas of interest: Violence in avant-garde movements, particularly Dada and Surrealism; late 19th to mid-20th century photography; early pornography. |
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