Professor of Art History Dr. Alexandra Carpino presented at the Archaeological Institute of America on March 27, 2022. Her talk was titled “Maternal Undress in Etruscan Mirror Iconography” and was part of the public lecture series in honor of Professor Larissa Bonfante by the Long Island chapter of the AIA.
Congratulations to Dr. Zsuzsanna Gulácsi, Professor of Art History and Asian Studies on her recent publication! She coauthored the book A Manichaean Prayer and Confession Book about the earliest known pre-Islamic Iranian manuscript, (Brepols 2022). The surviving 48-page portion the manuscript was once part of an Uygur-era (762-1124 CE) Manichaean liturgical book (written in Middle Persian, Parthian, and Sogdian languages) issued in the form of an exquisite miniature paper codex, measuring 3.6… Read more
Professor of Art History and Asian Studies Dr. Zsuzsanna Gulácsi gave a public invited lecture at The Baker Museum in Naples, Florida titled “Zoroastrian, Buddhist, & Manichaean Art across the Silk Routes: Divine Guides of the After Life” on February 15, 2022. Her 75 minute talk focused on mediaeval Sogdian, Uygur, and Chinese images of the Maiden of Light, Jesus, and Avalokiteshvara and was part of the event Artis—Naples: Lifelong Learning Series on Asian Art and History (https://artisnaples.org/education/lifelong-learning).
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Lecturer in Public Humanities & Museum Studies and art historian Dr. Becky Pratt-Sturges presented the paper, “Flesh Rendered on Gilded Pages: Representations of Meat in Late Medieval Hunting Manuals” at the conference Popular Culture and the Deep Past 2022: The Experimental Archaeology of Medieval and Renaissance Food” at the Ohio State University Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies on February 11, 2022. Her paper explored the illuminations of the medieval ritual of unmaking, which involved the dismembering of the… Read more
Congratulations to CCS alum Sophie Church (Art History emphasis with minors in Museum Studies, Studio Art, and Chemistry, 2017)! She joined both the Arizona State Library and the Center for Creative Photography as a conservation assistant and conservation technician in 2021. Sophie completed a M.A. in Art History in May 2019 at the University of Arizona. Her thesis research focused on the investigation of a sixteenth-century print by Ugo da Carpi from the University of Arizona Museum of… Read more
Congratulations to CCS alum Abigail Paternina (Art History emphasis, 2021) on her new position at the Montclair Art Museum in New Jersey! Abigail is working closely with local New York and New Jersey artists as the Special Events Associate with the museum in preparation for an upcoming art auction in December. She will also be working with the curatorial department on programming.
