MA Students
Current students in the Masters degree program
Khoo Zi Yun (Geraldine) Ang
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Postwar Modern and Contemporary Art, Diaspora in Europe and the Americas, Queer and Feminist Critiques and Rectifications, Restitution and Repatriation.
Yikang Bin
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Premodern Chinese visual culture, Korean art.
Megan Bogner
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Greek and Roman Art & Archaeology, especially female portraiture; Queer and Feminist Art Histories; Museum Education & Accessibility.
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.
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.
Andy Cheng
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Modern/Contemporary Art History.
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.
Annika Christiansen
Masters Program
Areas of interest: 18th and 19th Century European Art and Visual Culture.
Andrew Clark
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Late Medieval and Northern Renaissance Art and Dress.
Sarah Creighton
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Postwar Modern and Contemporary Art, with a focus on the Americas.
Haydin Davis
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Fourteenth-century Italian painting, particularly Sienese art; connoisseurship, attribution, provenance, materiality, and the reconstruction of fragmented altarpieces.
Elena Evnin
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Italian Renaissance and the Arts of the African Diaspora.
Anna Faries
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Ancient Mediterranean Art and Architecture.
Julia Fonti
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Italian Renaissance and Baroque art, theology and religious imagery, curation.
Caroline Foster
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Classical Archaeology and Egyptology, post-colonial theories of archaeology.
Jennifer Gersch
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Cubism, Impressionism, French History, the Ancien Régime.
Anna Grace Grossnickle
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Postwar American Art.
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.
Leyna Hoang
Masters Program
Areas of interest: (Pre-modern) Portraiture, cross-culturalism, and works made out of grief.
Moe’Neyah Holland
Masters Program
Areas of interest: African-American Contemporary Art/ Indigenous Americas of Mexico.
Yu-Jyun (Gina) Hu
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Ancient Chinese painting and Calligraphy.
Gongshi Huang
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Late Imperial East Asian Art, Material Culture, Chinese Court Art, Arms & Armor.
Reese Hutson
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Late Imperial East Asian Art, Material Culture, Chinese Court Art, Arms & Armor.
Avery Ingvarson
Masters Program
Areas of interest: 19th Century France, Realism movements worldwide, reexamining the canon with gender expansiveness and sexuality in mind.
Maggie Janowicz
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Modern and Contemporary Art, Museology, and Arts Accessibility.
Su Jin Kang
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Southeast Asian modern and contemporary art, with a focus on Indonesian material culture and global modernisms.
Lilia Kanu
Masters Program
Areas of interest: 19th and 20th Century European Portraiture; Visual Culture of The Black Atlantic; Decolonial Approaches to Museums and Curation.
Celine Keddissi
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Contemporary Art in the United States, Feminist Art Histories, Museum Studies, and Curation.
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.
Emma Konrad
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Roman and Hellenistic Art and Archaeology, Syncretic Visual Culture, Interpretations of Antiquity in 18th- and 19th-Century European Art.
Dasha Krylova
Masters Program
Areas of interest: French Impressionism, its influence on Russian Impressionism and the early Soviet avant-garde; techniques used in film and painting to evoke emotional resonance.
Mackenzie Lael
Masters Program
Areas of interest: High Renaissance Art, Medieval Art, Art Law, and Curatorial Work.
Alicia Yeon Seung Lee
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Modern and contemporary diasporic Korean art, folk art, tensions within the categorizations of rituals, intangible cultural heritage, and performance art.
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.
Preston Light
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Queer & Feminist artists working in NYC during the 1960s through the 1980s; Grief, love, and power in Modern & Contemporary American & British art; New American Cinema.
Erica Lizundia
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Global Modern Art; Ancient and Modern Sculpture; Philosophical Aesthetics and Phenomenology; Curatorial Practice.
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.
Elena McCloskey
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Modern and Contemporary Art.
Melly Mejia
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Late Medieval Art, Gothic Revival, Time-Based Media, Afro-Gothic Art. Contemporary Black Art.
Phoebe More
Masters Program
Areas of interest: East Asian contemporary art, '85 New Wave Movement, museum studies and museum education.
Lilia Muscarella
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Modern & contemporary art in the Americas, feminist art, Latin American art, art and political activism.
Jiyu Oh
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Modern and Contemporary Art; Painting; Works on Paper; East Asian Art; Korean Art; Aesthetics; Art and Economics.
Lucy Owen
Masters Program
Areas of interest: 19th and 20th century French Oil Painting, European Portraiture, Feminist Art Historiography, Female Artists and Patrons, Curation, and Contemporary Museology and Museum/Exhibition Practices.
Zia Pao-Ziegler
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Modern and Contemporary Art of the African and Asian Diasporas; Diasporic Identity; Visuality and Representation.
Chansol Park
Masters Program
Areas of interest: 14th to 19th Century Chinese Art, Korean Art.
Min Park
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Contemporary Art; Diaspora, Translation, and Embodiment; Time-Based Media and Performance.
Ana Laura Pastor
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Mid-20th Century - 21st Century contemporary and conceptual art that is materially variable and ephemeral; art & ethics; art market.
Shasta Power
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Phenomenology of space and place; sacred architecture; bi-directional relationships between the environment and visual culture; classical reception; site-specific art and ephemerality.
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.
Carlos Ernesto Rivera
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Ancient Greek and Roman Art, Small Figure Art.
Bennett Rowe
Masters Program
Areas of interest:Minimal and post-minimal sculpture; Land Art; ephemerality in sculpture; art and affect; philosophies of time and history; cross-temporal methods in art history.
Daisy Ryan
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Global Modern and Contemporary Art, Feminist Art Histories.
Gina Ryu
Masters Program
Areas of interest: East Asian modern and contemporary art; diasporic practices; performance and installation art.
Seo Young Ryu
Masters Program
Area of interest: Italian Mannerist paintings.
Manuela Salgado Abril
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Italian Baroque painting; Cross-cultural exchanges in the 17th and 18th centuries; Technical art history.
Micaella A. Sanchez
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Indigenous Arts of the Americas, 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.
Ella Senglaub
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Renaissance Art; Ancient Greek Art and Archaeology; Cultural Heritage; Memory and Landscapes.
Evie Sergeyev
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Connections between material culture and visual arts, Women in 19th-century European painting, Etruscan and Egyptian archaeology, archaeological-revival.
Sophie Shepps
Masters Program
Areas of interest: 17th- to 19th-century European art, with a focus on French painting.
Regina Suárez
Masters Program
Areas of interest: My academic interests center on global art history, decolonial approaches, and cross-cultural exchanges, with an emphasis on challenging Eurocentric narratives and exploring artistic identities.
José Tallaj
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Pre-war Modern Art, with a focus on Italian Futurism.
Hendrik Vermylen
Masters Program
Area of interest: Northern Renaissance.
Yuewei Wang
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Arts of Early Modern China, cultural exchange, prints, and book illustrations.
Isabella Welch
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Latin America & the Caribbean; historical relationships between Latin America, Africa, and the Iberian Peninsula; coloniality and identity construction; museum studies; history of art and technology.
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.
Congcong Wu
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Chinese and East Asian art; modern and contemporary art; painting, sculpture, and ceramics; materiality and the experience of viewing artworks.
You Wu
Masters Program
Areas of interest: East Asian art from the 17th to 20th century, focusing on representations of women and visual culture; Asian American avant-garde art; Feminist art.
Heewon Yang
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Modern and Contemporary Art, Korean Art, Experimental Art.
Maya Yermekova
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Art theory and criticism; aesthetics; semiotics; text-image relations; Modern Central Asian art; 19th and 20th century Russian Art; cross-cultural exchanges; global modern and contemporary art.
Jaden Yi
Masters Program
Areas of interest: Modern and contemporary Korean diasporic 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.