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Congratulations to Graduate School of Arts and Sciences students recognized at Commencement for outstanding achievement in their fields. In fellowships, Michelle Smiley (History of Art) has accepted the Wyeth Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA), Arielle Winnik (History of Art) has accepted a Kress Foundation Institutional Fellowship, and Nava Streiter (History of Art) was awarded an International Center of Medieval Art Travel Grant.
Bryn Mawr College recognizes excellence in teaching with the Doris Sill Carland Teaching Fellowship, awarded to Andrew Clark (Physics) and Audrey Wallace (Classics) for 2018-19, and with the Doris Sill Carland Award presented to Nina Blomfield (History of Art) and Mary Sexton (Physics).
Service to the graduate community was also recognized with the McPherson Award for Excellence presented to Isaac Craig (Mathematics) and Elena Gittleman (History of Art). Andrew Clark, Elena Gittleman, and Samantha Pezzimenti (Mathematics) represent the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences on the inaugural Community Building Honor Roll, a new initiative by the President’s Office that celebrates the meaningful contributions made by students to the Bryn Mawr College community.
Archaeology
This summer, Christina Chandler will return to the Oriental Institute in Chicago to continue her role as Student Researcher working on the Persepolis Fortification Archive from Iran.
Tracy Cian will attend the 52nd annual Seminar for Arabian Studies in London from August 3-5.
Shannon Dunn has accepted the American School Open Scholarship (Lawler) for the summer seminar session at the American School at Athens.
This summer Mackenzie Heglar will return to the excavations at Athienou-Malloura in Cyprus to conduct research for her doctoral dissertation.
In December Matthew Jameson returned to the Southeast Arabian excavations at Tell Abraq and Muweilah, directed by Professor Peter Magee. In April, Matt hosted a two-day intensive workshop on the 3D modelling of artifacts using photogrammetry. Matt also attended the Intensive Course on Pre-Islamic Arabia at Princeton in late May.
Ashley Mason will join the American School at Athens for the 2018-19 academic year as a Regular Member. In April, Ashley gave the talk "Reconsidering Anna Perenna and her 'Fountain in Rome'" as part of the Graduate Group in Archaeology, Classics, and History of Art end of semester research symposium.
Andrea Samz-Pustol and Andrew Tharler will return to the Hellenistic site of Morgantina in Sicily.
Andrew Samz-Pustol has accepted a one-year position as an Associate Member at the American School at Athens where she will conduct research for her doctoral dissertation.
Zach Silvia and Megan Sligar will return to the Joint Uzbek-American Expedition to Bukhara, Uzbekistan to excavate the Hellenistic-Antique period site Bashtepa.
In April, Zach Silvia was invited to present "The Occult and the Intellectual Tradition" at Bryn Mawr College.
Andrew Tharler investigated the mysterious terracotta altars of Morgantina as part of his doctoral dissertation research.
Classics
Dianne Boetsch participated in The Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest annual meeting in Tacoma, WA with a paper titled "Wanted: Dead and Alive? The Underworld Descents of Amphiaraus and Oedipus." Dianne also presented at the Indiana Classical Conference in Hanover, IN this April with her paper "Journeys Down Underworld: (Dis)order and (Dis)placement in Statius' Thebaid and Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus."
Dan Crosby presented his talk "Remembering Quinctilius Varus: Memory and Memorialization of the Failed General in the Annales of Tacitus" at the conference Monuments and Memory: Contesting Identity in the Classical Landscpape at the University of California, Berkeley in April.
In December, Luca D'Anselmi gave the talk “Wonder, Memory, and Contemplation: A Program of Liberal Education in Luke 2:18-19,” a lecture for the induction of the National Honor Society, Delta Epsilon Sigma in Overbrook, Pennsylvania. In April he gave the talk “Continuing the Aeneid: Dramatic Structure and Characterization in the Exequiae Turni,” for the panel: How Neo-Latin Readers and Writers Engaged with the Patrimony at the KFLC Languages, Literatures and Cultures Conference in Lexington, Kentucky. This summer Luca will present “Honorius Augustodunensis and the Liberal Arts as Via ad Sapientiam,” at the Society for Medeival and Rennaissance studies at St. Louis University.
In April, Kate Dolson presented her talk "The Anthropophagic Epic: Cannibalism in Statius' Thebaid" as part of the Graduate Group in Archaeology, Classics, and History of Art end of semester research symposium.
Collin Hilton has accepted the Berthe Marti Fellowship for a year of study at the American Academy in Rome where he will conduct research for his doctoral dissertation.
Christie Villarreal and Archaeology's Jessica Goodman are headed to Italy for excavations at Cosa, directed by Professor Russell Scott.
In April, Christie Villarreal presented her talk "All that Glitters: Metallic Imagery in Euripides' Electra" as part of the Graduate Group in Archaeology, Classics, and History of Art end of semester research symposium.
History of Art
History of Art students were well represented at the 2018 CAA conference, held in Los Angeles in February, with talks given by Michelle Smiley: “Formless: The Chemical Origins of Photography,” and Jamie Richardson: “All in the Family: Northern European Artistic Dynasties, ca. 1350-1750.”
Laurel Mclaughlin and Mechella Yezernitskaya presented “A Feminine Avant-Garde: Beyond Boundaries: Feminine Forms” at the Apolitical My Ars!: Dissent, Resistance, and Revolution in the Avant-Gard Arts, Philadelphia Avant-Garde Studies Consortium Symposium at the University of Pennsylvania. This summer, Laurel and Mechella co-curate two exhibitions at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Infinite Spaces: Rediscovering PAFA's Permanent Collection and SWARM., opening July 1st.
Nina Blomfield joins the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s American Wing this summer as a MuSe Graduate Intern, working on Tiffany & Co. silverware and the Edward C. Moore collection of decorative arts.
Kat Ford will be working with the Barnes Foundation and Bryn Mawr College’s Special Collections this summer with a Friends of the Bryn Mawr College Library graduate internship.
Elliot Krasnopoler presented two conference papers in April: “Textile Collapse: Depth and Digitality in Gerhard Richter’s Jacquard Tapestries” at "Rendering," Harvard’s Department of Visual and Environmental Studies 2018 Graduate Symposium and “Visible Differently: Roni Horn’s Vatnasafn/Library of Water as Memorial” at Bryn Mawr’s Earth Day Symposium. Elliot’s article “Windows Onto Things: The Phenomenology of Glass in Josef Sudek’s Still Lifes” was accepted by the peer-reviewed journal History of Photography, and his chapter “Visible Differently: Roni Horn’s Vatnasafn/Library of Water as Memorial” was included in Monument Culture: International Perspectives on the Future of Monuments in a Changing World, edited by Laura A. Macaluso. Both publications are forthcoming this year.
Laurel Mclaughlin co-curated the exhibition Flooding as part of the University of Pennsylvania’s Incubation Series. Laurel’s article entitled “Pierre Huyghes “Untitled (Human Mask)”: The “Other” in the “Open”” was published in Issue 42 of Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture. Laurel also presented her papers “Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s “Barren Cave Mute” (1974): ‘Alchemical Self Processes’ at the “Matters of Sensation” Georgia State University Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, and “A Cyborgian Disclosure: Marian Embodiement in Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s “The Annunciation (Marian Illmestys)” at the “Action!: Performance, Sport and Moving Bodies in Film and Visual Media” University of Pittsburg Film Studies Graduate Student Conference.
Mariam Souali, visiting Fulbright Scholar in History of Art, exhibited her drawings in Marrakech.
Mechella Yezernitskaya published "Christian Brinton: A Modernist Icon" in a special section of the journal Baltic Worlds. This essay is the result the research she was invited to present at the "Against the Scatter of the World: Rescuing, Keeping and Moving Things" symposium at Södertörn University, Stockholm in November 2017 as part of a project titled "Transnational Art and Heritage Transfer and the Formation of Value: Objects, Agents, and Institutions," funded by the Baltic Sea Foundation.
Mathematics
Isaac Craig and Hannah Schwartz attended the Fourth Annual Graduate Student Conference in Algebra, Geometry, and Topology at Temple University in early June.
Isaac Craig also attended the Topology Students Workshop at Georgia Tech in early June. This July, Isaac will travel to Gunma, Japan to attend the MSRI Summer Graduate School on H-Principles hosted by the University of Tokyo's Tambara Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
Lindsay Dever participated in the 2018 Women and Mathematics program on Mathematics of Modern Cryptography at the Institute for Advanced Study in May.
Hannah Schwartz was invited to speak at the Geometry/Topology RTG mini-conference at Princeton University in June. In July, Hannah will present her research at "The Topology and Geometry of Low-Dimensional Manifolds: A Celebration of the Mathematics of Bob Gompf" conference at the University of Texas at Austin.
Daniel White attended the Hausdorff School: L-functions: Open Problems and Current Methods in Bonn, Germany this June.
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