Research Forum Postdoctoral Fellow (Research Activities Coordinator), 2010

 

Dr Francesco LucchiniFrancesco Lucchini

Francesco Lucchini completed his PhD, entitled ‘Objects at Work: a Material and Cultural History of the Reliquaries of St Anthony of Padua in the Basilica del Santo, ca.1231-1448 at The Courtauld in 2009. His interests cover a wide spectrum of medieval artifacts and techniques, including metalwork and material aspects of early Italian painting. Under the aegis of the Research Forum, he is currently organizing a research project on the Material Life of Things which aims to explore the production, manipulation, exchange and consumption of artefacts throughout their life histories. He is also co-organizing an inter-institutional research projects seeking to define the category of the Clever Object as a tool of art-historical interpretation. Forthcoming publications include: ‘Face, Counterface, Counterfeit. The Lost Silver Visage of the Reliquary of St. Anthony’s Jawbone,’ in Meaning in Motion: Semantics of Movement in Medieval Art and Architecture, ed. G. Freni and N. Zchomelidse (Princeton University Press, Forthcoming, 2010); ‘The Making of a Legend. The Reliquary of the Tongue and the Representation of St Anthony of Padua as a Preacher,’ in Franciscan Preaching, ed. T. J. Johnson (Brill, Forthcoming, 2010); ‘Circolazione di reliquie e committenza di reliquiari al Santo nel primo Quattrocento,’ in Cultura arte e committenza al Santo nel Quattrocento, eds. G. Baldissin Molli and L. Bertazzo (Padua, Forthcoming, 2010).

 

Research Forum andrew w Mellon MA Postdoctoral Fellow 2009-10


Stephanie Schwartz

Stephanie Schwartz recently completed a two-year term as the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in History and Theory of Photography at Bryn Mawr College. She received her doctoral degree from the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University in 2007. Her dissertation, The Crime of Cuba: Urbanism, Photography, and the Geopolitics of Americanization, which developed an interdisciplinary framework for examining the relationship between modern aesthetic practices and the politics of decolonization, was nominated for a Bancroft Dissertation Award. In addition to writing Cuba Per Diem: Walker Evans and American Photographs, a book-length study of Evans’s 1933 Cuba portfolio, Stephanie is developing a new project on contemporary Cuban photography.


 

terra foundation for american art teaching fellowship 2009-11


Dr Wendy IkemotoWendy Ikemoto

Wendy Ikemoto completed her PhD in the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2009.  Her dissertation examined paired, or pendant, painting in the antebellum United States.  She is currently working on the book manuscript of her dissertation and developing a study of American art in the Pacific world in the 19th and early-20th centuries.  Her article Putting the ‘Rip’ in ‘Rip Van Winkle’: Historical Absence in John Quidor’s Pendant Paintings, was published in the summer 2009 issue of American Art.