MA Students
Current students in the Masters degree program
Ato-Obong Ini-Abasi Akpama
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Pre-Modern Africa and the Middle East.
Lauren Berling
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Art of the Middle East and North Africa, Fiber Art.
Yikang Bin
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Premodern Chinese visual culture, Korean art.
Jennifer Chaewon Byun
Masters Program
Areas of interest: East Asian modern and contemporary art; performative and experiential dimensions of installation, material culture, and ephemeral media within histories of performance and embodied spectatorship.
Claire Charvet
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Art archives and libraries, Modern & Contemporary art.
Rongying Cai
Masters Program
Areas of interest: pre-modern Chinese art; collection and exhibition of East Asian artworks in the contemporary United States.
Caitlin Chan
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Modern and Contemporary Art; Cross-cultural exchanges between Asian and Western traditions; Global art markets; Curatorial and exhibition practices.
Claire Charvet
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Art Archives and Librarianship, Dance and Performance Art, Feminist and Queer histories of art.
Adrienne Chen
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Modern and Contemporary Art; 19th and 20th Century European Art.
Ciara Colgen
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Modern and Contemporary Art, Queer and Feminist Art.
Sarah Creighton
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Postwar Modern and Contemporary Art, with a focus on the Americas.
Sarah Diaz
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Contemporary Art of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Lucy Edelen
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Modern and contemporary art history, art conservation..
Giacomo Charles Finali
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Nineteenth Century Alpine Landscapes.
Paula Fleites Villasol
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Art Law; Protection of Cultural Heritage; Cuban Vanguardismo and Post-Revolution Art; Impressionism & Post-Impressionism; Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; Greek and Roman Art & Archaeology.
Caroline Foster
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Classical Archaeology and Egyptology, post-colonial theories of archaeology.
Hala Hachem
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Middle Eastern Diasporic Communities in Latin America.
Willow Hackett
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Art; Illuminated Manuscripts and the Printed Book.
Sofia Headley
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Modern and Contemporary Art, Feminist and Queer Art of the 20th and 21st Centuries.
Abigail Henthorn
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Early Modern European Art with a focus in women artists and patrons, 20th century American Art.
Nate Hodgson-Walker
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Ancient Greek Sculpture & Architecture.
Moe’Neyah Holland
Masters Program
Areas of interest: African-American Contemporary Art/ Indigenous Americas of Mexico.
Seohui Hong
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Pre-modern European art and architecture.
Maggie Janowicz
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Modern and Contemporary Art, Museology, and Arts Accessibility.
Madeleine Kent
Masters Program
Areas of interest: The Renaissance within the Habsburg Empire, female collectors and patrons, convergences of art and science, and architectural heritage.
Michelle L. Kim
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Modern and Contemporary; French Impressionism; American Tonalism; Feminist Art.
Beatrice Kleeger
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Feminist Art; Modern and Contemporary Art; Visual Culture and Iconography.
Mackenzie Lael
Masters Program
Areas of interest: High Renaissance Art, Medieval Art, Art Law, and Curatorial Work.
Xingrui Lai
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Visual cultures of Yuan and Ming China. Visual production of animals in China and Islamic world. Sinology and collections of Chinese artworks in early-modern Europe.
Josie Lee
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Modern and contemporary art, transnational avant-garde networks, Korean experimental music, global circulation of sound, and visual culture of tree-derived resin.
Cordelia Leigh
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Researching Rococo interiors, architecture, and decorative arts in eighteenth-century France and Bavaria, focusing on material culture, ornament, and the relationship between design and identity.
Mariana Lejtman
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Art Economics - 20th Century art - Latin American Art.
Annie Yangyang Li
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Modern and Contemporary Art; performance art; photography.
Jialu Li
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Early Modern Europe and Cross-Cultural Exchange; Pre-Modern Chinese Visual and Material Culture.
Jessica Lightfoot
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Modern Austrian Painting and Graphic Design.
Erica Lizundia
Masters Program
Areas of interest: global modern art, resonances between ancient and modern sculpture, and aesthetic theory and phenomenology.
Beatrice Malavolti
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Contemporary art and art markets.
Serena Martin
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Northern Renaissance painting, royal portraiture, religious art and texts, political art.
Phoebe More
Masters Program
Areas of interest: East Asian contemporary art, '85 New Wave Movement, museum studies and museum education.
Daphne Moses
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Feminist Art, Queer Art, Performance Art.
Lilia Muscarella
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Modern & contemporary art in the Americas, feminist art, Latin American art, art and political activism.
Sophia Padley
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Italian Mannerism.
Chansol Park
Masters Program
Areas of interest: 14th to 19th Century Chinese Art, Korean Art.
Min Park
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Time-Based Media; Contemporary Art of East and Southeast Asia and Its Diaspora; Korean Art and Material Culture; Translation.
Ana Laura Pastor
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Mid-20th Century - 21st Century contemporary art; manipulation and incorporation of textiles; art market; art & ethics.
Qianqian Pei
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Mid-20th Century - 21st Century contemporary art; manipulation and incorporation of textiles; art market; art & ethics.
Kate (Katie) Perrin
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Modern and contemporary photography, Modern and contemporary American and European art, Modern and contemporary architecture, Italian art, Pop art, Asian Diasporic and Asian American art.
Áine Playdon
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Late Antique Roman art and archaeology; history of architecture and construction.
Neil Polich
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Modern and Contemporary Art, Queer and Feminist Art.
Lauren Puley
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Modern and Contemporary Art in the Americas; Indigenous and Canadian Art; Surrealist Art.
Sacha Reid
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Afro-Caribbean Diasporic Art, Contemporary Black Art, Arts of the Chinese-Caribbean Diaspora.
Gabriella Rice
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Religious contact and its influence on medieval iconography.
Lena Rohde
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Modern and Contemporary Art, 20th Century European Architecture, Design, and Decorative Arts, Cross-Cultural Exchange.
Daisy Ryan
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Global Modern and Contemporary Art, Feminist Art Histories.
Micaella A. Sanchez
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Ancestral Latin American Art, Indigenous Art, Museum Studies, and Curation.
Marisa Sanquini
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Ancient Egyptian art, the Mediterranean basin, the presentation of ancient art in museums, and artifact illustration.
Kat Schinella
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Modern and Contemporary art; postwar American abstraction; intermediality.
Sophie Shepps
Masters Program
Areas of interest: 17th- to 19th-century European art, with a focus on French painting.
Erica Sholes
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Queer and Feminist Art in Europe and the Americas, Contemporary Art, Performance Art.
Brian Woody
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Representations and conceptions of deities the ancient Americas, the feminine divine in polytheistic religions of the ancient world, Classic Mayan hieroglyphs, South Asian religious art.
Weijian (Wilfred) Xian
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Artistic interaction between China, France and Russia in the early to mid-twentieth century.
Junrou Yang
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Modern and Contemporary Art.
Janice Zhai
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Modern/Contemporary East Asian Art; History and Theory of Photography.
Huijun Zhao
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Chinese art history.
Aaren Zhou
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Egyptian Art and Archaeology; Egyptian–Canaanite Interactions.