Archaeology
Hollister Pritchett served as ceramics supervisor on the Tarsus-Gözlükule (Turkey) excavation this past summer and taught a class this fall at the Main Line School, The Archaeology of Greece: From the Dark Ages to the Hellenistic Period; she presented a paper at the CAAS annual meeting in October.
This past summer, Danielle Smotherman Bennett was field director of excavations at Ancient Corinth. Among her responsibilities, she focused on burials within the Frankish church in preparation for opening the area to the public.
Classics
In October, Collin Hilton presented a paper at the CAAS annual meeting in New Brunswick.
This past summer, Abbe Walker taught a course on the ancient world at the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth in Manhattan. This Fall, she has been teaching courses on ancient magic and Western civilization at Rutgers University, Camden. In January, she’ll present a paper titled "'Hysterical' Virgins in the Hippocratic Peri Parthenion" at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in Toronto.
History of Art
In October, Amy Wojciechowski and Nathanael Roesch presented papers at the Southeastern College Art Conference in Roanoke, VA. In November, Nathanael taught a gallery course for the education department at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, “Exploring Abstraction.”
Taylor Hobson is serving as a Spotlight Educator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art for 2016-17. In November, he led gallery conversations on Richard Hamilton’s Ghosts of Ufa – Screen (1995-96). He will lead three additional conversations on works in the Museum during the Spring.
Katherine Rochester published a chapter, “Close-Ups and Fast Cuts: Physiognomy, Choreography, and the Silhouette Films of Lotte Reiniger,” in Physiognomisches Schreiben. Stilistik, Rhetorik und Poetik einer gestaltdeutenden Kulturtechnik (Hans-Georg von Arburg, ed., Freiburg: Rombach, 2016, 243-264). In September, Katherine presented “Silhouettes and Hieroglyphs: Animating the Orient in 1920s Berlin” at the German Studies Association Annual Conference in San Diego, California. This past May, she won a spot on a study trip to Russia, hosted by the Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte, visiting collections and meeting with curators in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Katherine continues to write regularly for Artforum.
In October, Shannon Steiner traveled to the country of Georgia, to conduct research on medieval Byzantine Georgia n enamel and metalwork at the Museum of Fine Arts in Tbilisi. She presented a paper, "From Cloisonné to χειμευτόν: Alchemy and the Aestheticization of Technology in Byzantine Enamel,” at the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum in Mainz, Germany. Shannon has been invited to speak and participate in the research group “AG Byzantinisches Metallhandwerk,” which includes art historians, conservators, chemical engineers, and working goldsmiths; together they are producing a new, interdisciplinary translation and commentary of an 11th-century Byzantine alchemical treatise and testing the instructions in the museum’s experimental archaeology lab.
Mathematics
Samantha Pezzimenti, Frank Romanscavage, and Danielle Smiley gave talks at the joint meeting of the Mathematical Association of America hosted by Villanova University in November.
This past summer, Samantha Pezzimenti was adjunct professor at Ocean County College in New Jersey for Calculus II. She and Ziva Myer presented “lightning talks” at the Tech Topology Conference at Georgia Tech in December.
In October, Ziva Myer gave an invited talk at the MIT Geometry/Topology Seminar. She also gave an invited talk at the AMS Southeastern Sectional Meeting this Fall hosted by North Carolina State.
Frank Romanscavage presented “An Introduction to Big O Notation; Or, If Cheerios Could Do Math" at the Distressing Math Collective here at Bryn Mawr College in October; he also gave a talk at the Philadelphia Area Number Theory Seminar at Bryn Mawr College in December.
Hannah Schwartz was a visiting graduate student at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton this fall, where she attended courses and continued her research. In October, she attended the "Conference on 4-manifolds and knot concordance" in Bonn, Germany at the Max Planck Institute.
Physics
Xiao Wang received the student travel award ($750) from the Magnetism and Magnetic Materials Conference.