Faculty, Student, and Alumni Travels,
Presentations, and Publications
MA student Leila Al-Shibibi chaired a session and presented the paper “Alimentary Otherness: Gastronomy and Religious Identity in the Cantigas de Santa Maria” at the May 2025 International Congress on Medieval Studies.
Doctoral candidate Danelle Bernten‘s essay “The Weight of Light: Problematic Brushstrokes of Shaded Maternity in the works of Sue Collier” has been published in the CICA (Czong Institute of Contemporary Art) Museum publication Turbulence: New Media Art 2025 created in part from her October 2024 conference presentation at the International Symposium for Visual Culture in Silver Spring, MD. Additionally, Danelle is working at the Johnson Collection in Spartanburg, SC as a Graduate Fellow for the summer of 2025.
Graduating MA student Jacqueline Cao and PhD student Hudson Kauffman were selected by their peers as the 2025 winners of the I. N. Winbury Award for excellence in research and writing. Read more.
Dr. Michael Carrasco co-authored the paper “Citizen Science and the Spread of Aulacaspis yasumatsui Takagi on Amami Oshima, Japan” presented as part of the symposium “Systematics, Biology, Horticulture, and Conservation of Cycads” at the XIII Latin American Congress of Botany, held March 10–14, 2025, in Havana, Cuba.
Doctoral student Serena D’Alessandro and doctoral candidate Estefanía Vallejo Santiago have been selected to participate in the FSU CAT Teaching Assistant Course Design Institute this summer.
BA students Genna Dulcio, Corinne Roethke, and Anna Vincent will enter the FSU Art History graduate program in the fall of 2025. Also graduating this spring, Willow Hackett will enter the NYU Institute of Fine Arts graduate program in the History of Art and Archaeology, and Tessa Mahurin will begin the MA program in Visual Art Administration, also at NYU.
Alumnus Segundo Fernandez will present “The Theatre and the Easel: The Depiction of Meteorological Effects in Watercolour Painting and Stage Productions in Georgian England” in the conference “Watercolour & Weather 1750-1850” at the Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne (Switzerland) in June.
Doctoral candidates Madison Gilmore-Duffey and Estefanía Vallejo Santiago have each received the International Programs Florence Teaching Appointment to teach Art History in Italy this summer.
Doctoral candidate Haylee Glasel published a book chapter, “Reciprocity and Respect: Land-Based Artistic Practices in Response to Policies against the Deatnu River,” in Landscape and Nature in Scandinavian Art, edited by MaryClaire Pappas and Tonje Haugland Sørensen.
Last fall, undergraduates researched and catalogued a collection of Byzantine coins, on loan from the Blick-Harris Study Collection of Kenyon College, Ohio, under the supervision of Dr. Lynn Jones. The students’ work is now published on Digital Kenyon for use by future numismatists and art historians.
MA graduate Sarah Moloney has once again received a Reckford Fellowship from the Department of Classics to conduct archaeological research at Cetamura del Chianti in Italy this summer.
Dr. Robert Neuman and two graduate students from his fall 2024 Walt Disney seminar — Raigen Sumrall and Valarie Godwin — will present papers at the international Disney, Culture, and Society conference in June 2025.
Dr. Paul Niell presented “Roofs of Resilience: Thatching and Urban Life in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico” on May 1st in The Early Modern Symposium at Yale University.
Dr. Lorenzo Pericolo has a new book in press: Deleuze’s Modern Baroque: The Fold, Leibniz, the Formless, and the Objectile (Brepols, 2025) will be available in early fall.
Graduating MA student Erick Rivers will intern this summer at Cultural Arts Collective, working with clients in Uruguay, Colombia, Brazil, and Argentina to replicate physical galleries virtually, and build solo exhibition rooms for artists.
Graduating MA student Jessica Salaun joins The Ringling Museum of Art full time this summer in the position of Collections Department Program Associate.
Doctoral candidate Estefanía Vallejo Santiago will deliver a guest lecture on the history of muralism in Puerto Rico at the Museum of Art of Puerto Rico in May.