Krista L. Bennett, Ph.D. Candidate

Dissertation topic: Crafting Canada, TBA
Major fields of interest: Roles of hierarchical constructs of craft, art, gender and display/representation in creating and maintaining identity; World's Exhibitions; Canadian cultural identity and policy; nineteenth and twentieth century decorative arts, design and fine art; material culture, visual culture, popular culture; political positioning of craft - gendered and marginalized art practices as sites of resistance and subversion
Graduate experience:Mount Saint Vincent University, MEd. (2004)
Undergraduate experience:Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, BFA (1994); Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, BA Art Education (2005)
Supervisor: Dr. Janice Helland and Dr. Sandra Alfoldy (NSCAD)
Contact: 5klb@queensu.ca

Alena Buis, Ph.D. Candidate

Major fields of interest: Dutch visual and material culture, the early modern Atlantic world, Canadian visual and material culture, craft history and theory, gender issues

Graduate experience: Concordia University, Canadian Art History (2008)

M.A. Thesis Title: "Ut pictura poesis: EB Greenshields' Collection of Hague School Paintings"

Undergraduate experience: Concordia University, Art History with Distinction (2005)

Contact:alenabuis@gmail.com

Susan Cahill, Ph.D. Candidate

Major fields of interest: 19th-century British and Canadian textiles and dress; gendered aesthetics and print culture; the politics of fibre art and craft; the visual culture of consumption
Graduate experience: Queen's University, M.A. Art History (2007)
M.A. Thesis Title:Crafting culture, fabricating identity: gender and textiles in Limerick lace, Clare embroidery and the Deerfield Society of Blue and White Needlework
Undergraduate experience:Memorial University, B.A. First Class Honours English Literature and Classical Studies (2002)
Contact: 5sec1@queensu.ca

Anna Edwards, M.A. Candidate

Thesis topic: Caravaggio's influence in Italy south of Rome.
Major fields of interest: Italian Renaissance & Baroque; Dutch Baroque; Museum studies; Art Law
Undergraduate experience: Queen's University B.A. Honours, Art History (2006)
Supervisor: Sebastian Schütze
Contact: 3ave@queensu.ca

Allison Fisher, Ph.D. Candidate

Dissertation topic: Artistic Interest in the life of Alexander the Great during the Italian Renaissance, with a focus on Raphael and his workshop: designs in all media

Major Fields of Interest: Raphael and his workshop; decorative arts in late Gothic and Renaissance Europe; Classical Tradition in painting, sculpture, and architecture; artistic and cultural relationships between the East and West in the Early Modern World
Graduate experience: Courtauld Institute of Art, M.A. in Medieval Art (2007)

M.A. Thesis Title: The Significance of Blood Imagery, Violence and Warfare in the Bible of Federico da Montefeltro
Undergraduate experience: Queen's University, B.A. Honours major in Art History and minor in Latin (2006)
Supervisor: Dr. Cathleen Hoeniger

Contact: 1anf@queensu.ca

Daniela Julia Hollenbach, M.A. Candidate

M.A. Thesis Topic:Culture Redress: Making over Canadian Art Museums from the Inside Out
Major Fields of Interest:Contemporary art and craft; activist art and artist interventions; craft's affective and embodied potential to decolonize institutional spaces. Museum studies, queer theory, indigenous studies, critical theory.
Undergraduate Experience: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, BFA & BA Art History (2008)
Supervisor: Dr. Janice Helland
Contact: d.hollenbach@queensu.ca

Brianne Howard, Ph.D. Candidate

Major fields of interest: 19th century processes of collecting and displaying, issues of museum and gallery representation in Canada, religion and race, tourist art
Graduate experience: St Andrews University, M. Litt. Art History (2007)
M. Litt Thesis title: The Read Family Collection of Curios from Central West Africa
Undergraduate experience:McGill University, B.A. Honours, Art History and Communications and World Religions (2006)
Supervisor: Lynda Jessup
Contact:6bh12@queensu.ca

Xiaoyin Huang, Ph.D. Candidate

Dissertation topic: Francesco Salviati ritrattista:Experiments in Cinquecento Portraiture
Major fields of interest: Italian Renaissance and Baroque art, art in the Reformation, word and image, Renaissance and contemporary art historiography.
Graduate experience: Queen's University, M.A. Art History (2006)
M.A. Thesis Title: Michelangelo in Venice, Artistic Exchange between Central Italy and Venice before 1550
Undergraduate experience: York University, B.A. Honours, Interdisplinary Fine Arts with minor in English Literature; University of Toronto, Department of Fine Art (2002-2004)

Supervisor:  Prof. David McTavish
Contact: 4xyh@queensu.ca

Janina M. Knight, Ph.D. Candidate

Thesis topic:The Drawings of G. B. Montano: Baroque Ornamentation on Roman Ruins
Major fields of interest:Ancient Sculpture and Architecture, Classical Tradition in Renaissance and Baroque Architecture
Undergraduate experience: Queen's University B.A. Honours, Classics and Art History (2006)
Supervisor:Dr. Pierre du Prey
Contact: 2jmk1@queensu.ca

Chantelle Lepine-Cercone, Ph.D. Candidate

Dissertation topic: Art and Business in Seventeenth-Century Naples: The Collecting and Dealing Practices of Gaspare Roomer
Major fields of interest: Neapolitan and Roman seventeenth-century painting; the Early Modern art market; cultural exchange between the Netherlands and Italy; patronage; collecting patterns; art and diplomacy.
Graduate experience: University of Toronto, Master of Museum Studies (2007)
Undergraduate experience: Queen's University, Art History (major), Philosophy (minor) (2005)
Supervisor: Dr. Sebastian Schutze and Dr. Stephanie Dickey
Contact:0cl6@queensu.ca

Catherine J. Manning, Ph.D. Candidate

Major fields of interest: Italian Renaissance and Dutch Baroque
Undergraduate experience:BA (Hon) with High Honours (2005) in Art History at University of Saskatchewan; BFA with Great Distinction (2004) in Studio Art at University of Saskatchewan; LLB (1981) at University of Saskatchewan; BA in Political Science (1977) at University of Saskatchewan
Supervisor: Dr. Stephanie Dickey
Contact: 6cjm2@qlink.queensu.ca

Johanna Plant, Ph.D. Candidate

Major fields of interest: artist-run centres and community-driven arts organizations, cultural democracy, canons in art history, 20th and 21st century Canadian art, museum studies, art in public spaces, arts infrastructure
Graduate experience: University College London, M.A. History of Art
M.A. Thesis Title: The Dauntsey Doom: Issues of Presenting a Fragmentary Work
Undergraduate experience: University of Calgary, B.A. Art History (with distinction)
Supervisor: Dr. Clive Robertson

Sarah E.K. Smith, Ph.D. Candidate

Dissertation Title: “Exhibitions as Envoys: Art and the Construction of Identity in the New North America”

Research: My research scope is modern and contemporary visual and material culture in North America, with specific interest in the Canadian context. In particular, I focus on the study of exhibitions, cultural diplomacy and historical representations of nationalism, in a bid to examine the role of visual and material culture in the construction of North American identity between 1990 and 2005. My secondary research stream concentrates on artistic investigations of surveillance, namely contemporary artists whose work adopts, subverts and resists surveillance cultures, as well as theories of visuality.

Graduate experience: Queen's University, M.A. Art History (2008)


M.A. Thesis Title: "Cultural Brokering: Art, National Identity, and The Influence of Free Trade"

Undergraduate experience:Queen's University, Bachelor of Fine Art, Honours with Distinction (2006)


Supervisors: Dr. Lynda Jessup
 and Dr. Kirsty Robertson (The University of Western Ontario)

Contact: sarah.e.k.smith@queensu.ca

Riva Symko, Ph.D. Candidate

Dissertation Topic: Appropriation, interstice, and copyright law in contemporary visual culture.
Major Fields of Interest: 20th and 21st century visual culture and gallery practices.
Graduate Experience: University of Western Ontario, MA Visual Culture
MA Thesis Title: Vitalizing Sounds, Visionary Sights: Rock & Roll, Spectacle, and Inauthentic Spaces
Undergrad Experience: University of Alberta, BA Honours, Art History
Contact:6rss1@queensu.ca

Kristina Thornton, M.A. Candidate

M.A. Major Research Paper Title: “Stitched Strategies of Subversion: Contemporary Embroidery and the Work of Ghada Amer”
Major Fields of Interest:Contemporary textile art, with a particular focus on embroidery; the politics of textile art and craft; constructs of gender and identity; the female body, sexuality and pleasure; strategies of resistance or destabilization.
Undergraduate Experience: University of Lethbridge, Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art (2009)
Supervisor: Dr. Janice Helland
Contact: k.thornton@queensu.ca 

Devin Therien, Ph.D. Candidate

Dissertation topic: "'Terribile Disegno' and 'Eroico Componimento': Mattia Preti's Artistic Practice and Its Reception in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Italy."
Major fields of interest: Italian Renaissance and Baroque artistic and literary culture (Neapolitan specifically); Italian Baroque aesthetics and optics; Artist-Patron relationships; the relationship between artistic practice and art theory
Graduate experience: Queen's University, M.A. Art History (2006)
M.A. Thesis Title "Domenichino and the Cultural Significance of Pictorial Imitation in Early Seicento Painting"
Undergraduate experience: University of Guelph, B.A. Honours, Art History (2004). Thesis Topic: "The Etymology of the Renaissance Man"
Supervisor: Dr. Sebastian Schütze (Department Chair, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, University of Vienna)
Contact: 4dt1@queensu.ca

Eric J. Weichel, Ph.D. Candidate

Major fields of interest: 18th-century Portraiture; Aristocratic Identity, Representation and Sexuality; Queer Studies and Theory
Side Research:Prehistoric Crete, Malta, and the Cyclades; Mesoamerican art; John William Waterhouse; Nicholas Roerich
Graduate experience:Carleton University, M.A. Art History (2007)
M.A. Thesis Title "This Painted Child of Dirt': Dissident Aristocratic Masculinities in early 18th-century British Portraiture, 1717-1745"
Undergraduate experience: Carleton University, B.A., Honours Art History (2005)
Supervisor: Dr. Janice Helland