My research interests intend to illuminate employed visual languages of East Asian artists derived from digital and electronic media in order to engage with the everyday reality of life amidst the socioeconomic transformations in late 1990s and 2000s. The research explores the conditions of the society that artists reside in and how induction of new media facilitates the generation of visual languages in the globalized context of art world networks.
I received BA in Linguistics and MA in art…
Sara specializes in modern and contemporary Latin American art and focuses specifically on issues relating to decoloniality, temporality, and indigenous ecocriticism. Before attending Cornell, Sara received an M.A in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Sara has curated a number of exhibitions such as: No Todo lo que Brilla at the Museo Antropológico y de Arte Contemporáneo in Guayaquil (2019); Gestos de Poderwhich featured a collaboration between the performance…
Lara’s work considers contemporary art as a site of the sublime and spectral reverberations of national, ideological, violent, and traumatic histories. Particularly her work focuses on contemporary art from Turkey produced between 1990-2015 and its source materials in the long 20th century. Drawing from heterodox art historians such as Aby Warburg and Walter Benjamin and in dialogue with theories of aesthetics and representation, psychoanalytic theories, and memory studies, her project engages…
Yuhua Ding is a PhD candidate in art history at Cornell University. Her research focuses on the cultures of collection and collecting of Chinese ancient art and antiquities, in particular their accumulation by diverse social classes and dissemination through domestic and foreign collectors. Her dissertation “Antiquarianism in a Time of Crisis: On the Collecting Practice of Deng Shi and His Contemporaries” sheds light on art collecting and art publishing at a moment when China was transforming…
Sadé’s interest is in art as a form of visual communication that questions, manipulates, and/or distorts racial, social, and gender relationships. She studies constructions of identity via modern and contemporary American art, mass media, and visual culture. Her current work focuses on humor and how characteristics of black masculinity are brought out in Gilded Age photography, and satirical cartoons, prints, and illustrations. Shadé earned a B.S. BA in international business and an M.A. in Art…
Evan is an art historian and archaeologist whose research focuses primarily on the art and architecture of the ancient Roman world. His dissertation project investigates the epistemologies of craft labor and aesthetics in the practice of ancient plasterwork on the Italian peninsula, c. 3rdcentury BCE-3rdcentury CE. He also serves as the lead researcher for painted plasterwork finds on the Casa della Regina Carolina Project excavations in Pompeii, Italy. Evan is alsointerested in the media of archaeology(especially plaster casts and photographic and photorealistic imaging technologies), queer appropriations of the classical past, and contemporary practices of memorialization. Evan received his BFA in Architectural History from the Savannah College of Art and Design (2014) and his MA in the History of Art from the University of Pennsylvania (2016).
Kaja M. McGowan’s areas of interest involve South and Southeast Asia with emphasis on Indonesia, particularly Java and Bali (both historically Indic in orientation) studied in relation to the subcontinent. Rather than see India and Indonesia, for example, as modes of influence between two points, her scholarly interests encourage studying the reciprocal relationships between neighboring countries in Southeast Asia. Her research explores the flow of ideas and artifacts along this highway -- architecture, bronzes, textiles, ceramics, performance traditions, and visualizations of texts like Panji Malat, the Ramayana, and the Mahabharata -- artifacts that move and those that are locally produced. This accounts for the shaping of ideas and the development of styles across vast geographical and historical distances. Her work is governed by the complex ways in which History of Art and Visual Studies intersect with Anthropology, Material Culture, Colonial and Post-colonial Theory, Performance, Gender, and Religious Studies.
Watercolor 'views' of enemy coastline, commissioned by the eighteenth century British Royal Navy, are both art and navigational tool, writes Kelly Presutti.
A Guide to a Graduate Studies in the field of History of Art, Archeology, and Visual StudiesThese guidelines supplement, but do not supplant, The Code of Legislation of the Graduate Faculty
These guidelines supplement, but do not supplant, The Code of Legislation of the Graduate Faculty.Prerequisites for AdmissionSelect applicants are admitted to the Ph.D program. No terminal masters degrees are awarded except under exceptional circumstances.
2019Jessica Plant – James Rignall Wheeler Fellowship; Member of the American School of Classical Studies at AthensGilda Posada – Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, Ford Foundation.Kaitlin Emmanuel – Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, Cornell South Asia ProgramAstara Light – Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, Cornell Southeast Asia Program2018
Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Islamic Aesthetics in Southeast Asia, National Gallery of SingaporeAnissa Rahadiningtyas, Ph.D. 2021Assistant Professor at Bilkent University, Ankara TurkeyAsli Menevse, Ph.D. 2021Gregory and Maria Henderson Curatorial Fellow in East Asian Art, Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge MAYuhua Ding, Ph.D. 2019
2021Menevse, Asli, "Monuments on Paper: Radical French Printmakers and the Critique of Authority (1871-1914)" (Cornell University, Laura Meixner & Ben Anderson) Rahadiningtyas, Anissa, "Islam and Art in the Makings of the Modern in Indonesia" (Cornell University, Kaja McGowan) Shirazi, Sadia, "Fugitive Abstraction: Zarina, Mohamedi and Lala Rukh" (Cornell University, Iftikhar Dadi) 2020
The interdisciplinary undergraduate Visual Studies Program at Cornell University provides students with an opportunity to critically understand visual culture through both study and practice. It encourages interpretation of the historical and contemporary visual world from diverse perspectives, including architecture, art, cinema, digital media, gender, globalization, performance, popular culture, print and electronic media, race, social institutions, and scientific developments. The Program currently offers a minor, which is open to all undergraduates.
