Johanna Amos, Ph.D. Candidate

Dissertation topic: ‘The Burden of the Image:’ Jane Morris in Art and Life

Major fields of interest: arts & crafts and aesthetic movements in Britain and North America, the Pre-Raphaelites, craft/fashion history and theory, art historiography, manuscript illumination

Graduate experience: University of Leeds, M.A. Medieval Studies (2007)

Undergraduate experience: Mount Allison University, B.A. Art History (2005)

Supervisor: Dr. Janice Helland

Contact: 8ja38@queensu.ca

Jane Becker Nelson, M.A. Candidate

Major fields of interest: contemporary art in northern North America, museum studies, curatorial practice, wilderness and landscape representation from the 19th century to the present
Undergraduate experience: St. Olaf College, B.A. Art History and Studio Art (2004)
Supervisor: Dr. Lynda Jessup
Contact: 11jbn1@queensu.ca

Lisa Binkley, Ph.D. Candidate

Dissertation topic: The Material Culture of 19th Century Quilts along the Northeastern Seaboard States and Maritime Provinces
Major fields of interest:19th century arts & crafts in North America, cotton textile production and consumption,  material culture, craft history and theory, women's labour, economics, and creative geographies
Graduate experience:Queen's University, M.A. Human Geography (2011)
Undergraduate experience: Queen's University, B.A.H. Human Geography (2007)
Supervisor:Dr. Janice Helland
Contact:3lb17@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

Veronica Carter, Ph.D. Candidate 

Dissertation Topic: The Fan in French Visual and Material Culture, 1860-1900
Major Fields of Interest: Nineteenth-century visual and material culture, discourses of visuality and sensory perception, constructions of gender
Graduate Experience: M.A., Art History, Queen's University (2010)
Undergraduate Experience: B.A. Honours, major in English, minor in Studio Art, University of Guelph (2008)
Supervisor: Dr. Allison Morehead
Contact: v.carter@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

Alison Fraser, M.A. Candidate 

M.A. research topic: Contemporary graffiti as a form of visual resistance
Major fields of interest: Ancient, historical, and modern graffiti as a persistent form of mark making, art as/and activism, art as a means to develop communities, community based research, posthuman theory, constructions of the nation-state on the local and global scale, and the construction/role of public spaces
Undergraduate experience:University of Victoria, Honours B.A. History in Art, Minor Anthropology (2012)
Contact: fraser.alison@queensu.ca

Nenagh Hathaway, Ph.D. Candidate

Dissertation topic: The Netherlandish Altarpiece Grisaille from the 15th to the 16th century: A Technical Art History Approach
Major fields of interest: technical art history and the scientific examination of artworks, 15th and 16th century Netherlandish painting, altarpieces and triptychs, portraiture, the history of conservation
Graduate experience: University of Glasgow, M.A. Technical Art History: Making and Meaning  (2011)
Undergraduate experience: Queen's University, B.A. Art History (2009)
Supervisor: Professor Ron Spronk
Contact: 5nh8@queensu.ca

Julie Hollenbach, Ph.D. Student

Major fields of interest: Contemporary art and craft, activist art and artist interventions, museum studies, material culture, queer and feminist theory.

Graduate experience: Queen's University, M.A. Art History (2007)

M.A. Thesis Title: Comfort/Discomfort: Allyson Mitchell's Queer Re-Crafting of the Home, the Museum and the Nation.

Undergraduate experience: NSCAD University, B.A. Art History (2008), B.F.A Fine Art (2008)

Supervisor: Dr. Janice Helland and Dr. Sandra Alfoldy (NSCAD)

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

Agnes E. Ladon Ph.D. Student

Major fields of interest: Canadian Historical Art
Graduate experience: Queen's University,  M.A. Art History (2012)
Undergraduate experience: University of Toronto, Honours B.A. Art History and Aboriginal Studies, with High Distinction (2010)
Supervisor: Dr. Lynda Jessup
Contact: agnes.ladon@queensu.ca

Melissa La Porte, Ph.D. Candidate

Dissertation topic: Visual culture and the supernatural in the Early Modern period
Major fields of interest:Book arts, intersections between literature and art, reception of the ancient world in the Early Modern period, digital humanities.
Graduate experience: Brock University, M.A. Studies in Comparative Literatures and the Arts (2010), University of Guelph, M.A. Art History and Visual Culture (2012)
Undergraduate experience: McMaster University, B.A. Combined Honours Art History and Classics (2008)
Supervisor:Dr. Una D’Elia
Contact: 12pml@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

Kit MacManus, M.A. Candidate

Major Research topic: The Staffordshire Hoard
Major fields of interest: Anglo-Saxon art, Celtic art, early British History
Undergraduate experience: Concordia University, B.F.A. Painting and Drawing (2011)
Supervisor: Dr. Matthew Reeve
Contact:11km31@queensu.ca

Chantal Manna, M.A. Candidate

Advanced research paper topic: Satyrs in the Renaissance Studiolo
Major fields of interest: Italian Renaissance and Baroque visual and material culture, with particular attention to sixteenth-century small-scaple sculpture.
Graduate experience:  Queen's University, M.A. Art History (Current)
Undergraduate experience:University of Toronto, B.A. (Honours) Art History (2011)
Supervisor: Dr. Una D'Elia
Contact: 31cm34@queensu.ca

Robin McDonald, M.A. Candidate

Major fields of interest:Queer and feminist theory, settler and Indigenous relations in Canada, alternative museum spaces and curatorial practices, activist art and artist activisms.
Undergraduate experience: University of Waterloo (2011)
Supervisor: Dr. Clive Robertson
Contact: robin.mcdonald@queensu.ca

Heather Merla, Ph.D. Student

Major Fields of Interest: Early Modern Italian visual culture, the history of science and medicine, monstrosity and the grotesque, intersections between literature and art.
Graduate Experience:M.A., Queen’s University (2011)
M.A. Major Research Paper Title: Aberrant Identities: The Gonzales Family in Text and Image
Undergraduate Experience: B.A. Honours, Art History, University of Guelph (2008)
Supervisor: Dr. Una D’Elia
Contact: 8hm24@queensu.ca

Anna-Maria Moubayed, Ph.D. Student

Dissertation topic: The Body of Eve in French Romanesque Sculpture
Major fields of interest: Medieval Art, Eve, Romanesque and Gothic France, Theology, Pagan influences and Christianity
Graduate experience: Concordia University, M.A. Art History (2010)
Undergraduate experience: Concordia University, B.F.A. with Distinction, major in Art History and minor in Classical Archaeology (2007)
Supervisor: Dr. Matthew Reeve
Contact: anna-maria.moubayed@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

Angelique Roy, M.A. Candidate

Dissertation topic: Christ’s Descent into Limbo: Patronage, Liturgy and Imagination in Sixteenth Century Italian Altarpieces

Major fields of interest: Italian Renaissance art, Mannerism, the iconography of Heaven and Hell in Medieval and Renaissance art, art in the Reformation
Undergraduate experience: Carleton University, Combined Honours: Bachelor of Humanities and Art History (2011)
Supervisor: Dr. David McTavish
Contact: a.roy@queensu.ca

Tierney Sloan, M.A. Candidate 

Thesis Topic: Placid Exuberance and Ostentatious Habits: Depicting the Human Figure in New Spain, New France, and the Guaraní Reductions of Paraguay
Major fields of interest: colonial Latin American art, the visual culture of female religious orders, art in New France, southern European Baroque
Undergraduate experience:McGill University, B.A. Art History, Honours (2011)
Supervisor: Dr. Gauvin Bailey
Contact: t.sloan@queensu.ca

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

Dissertation Title: “Art and the Invention of North America, 1985-2012”
Research: My research scope encompasses modern and contemporary visual and material culture, with specific interest in the relationship between culture, economics and globalization. My doctoral project examines the response of Canadian artists, curators and museums to the 1994 implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Other research and teaching fields include: art and activism; globalization and culture; surveillance cultures; and exhibitions, national representation and cultural diplomacy.
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
 (Queen's University) and Dr. Kirsty Robertson (Western University)
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

Laura Thiel, Ph.D. Candidate

Major fields of interest:Dutch seventeenth-century genre painting (1650-1670), gender history and theory, genre motifs of domesticity and seventeenth-century European domestic material culture
Graduate experience: Boston University, M.A. History of Art and Architecture and Museum Studies Certificate (2011)
Undergraduate experience:St. Olaf College, B.A. Art History with Distinction (2008)
Supervisor: Dr. Stephanie Dickey
Contact: 11lt15@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 

Erin Wall, M.A. Candidate

Major fields of interest: Late 19th and early 20th century Canadian art and visual culture, Canada and the British Empire, expatriate artists, art historiography
Undergraduate experience: McMaster University, B.A. Honours, major in Art History with a minor in English (2011)
Supervisor: Dr. Janice Helland
Contact: e.wall@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

Alana West, Ph.D. Candidate

Dissertation topic: Frederick H. Evans and his Circle
Major fields of interest: History of Photography; Nineteenth-Century Photography; Photographic Materiality and Meaning; Arts and Craft Movement; and the Photograph as Art
Graduate experience:MA Photographic Preservation and Collections Management, Honours, Ryerson University and George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film (2009)
Undergraduate experience: BFA Honours, Ryerson University (2001)
Supervisor: Dr. Joan M. Schwartz
Contact: alana.west@queensu.ca

Meaghan Whitehead, Ph.D. Student

Major fields of interest: Western medieval art and architecture, Plantagenet and Capetian court culture, relationships between art and liturgy, medieval theology, art patronage of Henry III (1216-1272)
Graduate experience: Queen’s University, M.A. Art History (2012)
M.A. Major Research Paper Title: The Wheel of Fortune in Medieval English Art and Literature
Undergraduate experience: Queen’s University, B.A.H. Art History, History (2010)
Supervisor: Dr. Matthew M. Reeve
Contact: m.whitehead@queensu.ca