Ryan, Laura

Laura Ryan, Ph.D. Candidate

Laura Ryan

Ph.D. Candidate

Art History Program

Major Fields of Interest: Primitivism, turn-of-the century French modernism, and issues of identity, self-fashioning, transnationalism, and feminism.
Undergraduate Experience: Towson University, B.A. in Art History. Thesis entitled "Symbolic Judgment: An Iconological Analysis of James Ensor鈥檚 The Seven Deadly Sins Print Series."
Graduate Experience: American University, M.A. in Art History. Thesis entitled "Subverting Orientalism and Primitivism? Sonia Delaunay's Yellow Nude, 1908."
Supervisor: Dr. Allison Morehead

Darvin, Hannah

Hannah Darvin, Ph.D. Candidate

Hannah Darvin

Ph.D. Candidate

Art History Program

Major Fields of Interest: Luke Fildes; doctor-patient relationship; nineteenth-century British Art; Victorian visual culture; histories of nineteenth-century medicine; medical humanities

Undergraduate Experience: B.A. Honours, major in Art History with a minor in Political Studies (2009), 黄色视频.

Graduate Experience: M.A. Fine and Decorative Art (2011), Sotheby's Institute of Art, London, UK; M.A. Art History (2010), University of Toronto.

Dissertation Title: Sentimentalizing Medicine: Luke Fildes鈥檚 The Doctor (1891) and the Idealized Image of the Physician-Patient Relationship

Supervisor: Dr. Allison Morehead

Tennant, El

Tennant, El

El Tennant

Ph.D. Candidate

Art History Program

Major Fields of Interest: The illicit art market; archaeological looting; cultural heritage restitution; memory and identity.

Undergraduate Experience: University of Waterloo, B.A. (Honours) in Classics (2017)

Graduate Experience: University of Waterloo, M.A. in Classics (2019)

PhD Thesis Title: The Memory of Loss: Identity Formation as Influenced by Cultural Heritage Looting in Italy from Antiquity to Present Day

Supervisor: Dr. Cathleen Hoeniger

Hooper, Drew

Drew Hooper, Ph.D. Candidate

Drew Hooper

Ph.D. Candidate

Art History Program

Major Fields of Interest: Modern and contemporary art; censorships; culture wars; public arts funding; queer theory and history; institutional critique; pedagogy.
Undergraduate Experience: B.A. Honours in Art History and History, Queen鈥檚 University, 2017.
Graduate Experience: M.A. in Art History, 黄色视频 (2019). MRP: "Art's Bad Body: The Scandalization of Egon Schiele"
PhD Topic: (De)Queering Art in America: Examining the Guiding Forces Behind Censorship Campaigns, 1980-present.
Supervisor: Dr. Jen Kennedy

de Campos Tornich Manoel, Carolina

Carolina de Campos Tornich Manoel, Ph.D. Candidate

Carolina de Campos Tornich Manoel

Ph.D. Candidate

Department of Art History and Art Conservation

Major Fields of Interest: South African art; Contemporary art; feminist art; Women artists.
Undergraduate Experience: State University of Campinas, Bachelor of Visual Arts, 2012; Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas, Journalism, 2014.
Graduate Experience: University of S茫o Paulo, South African Art, 2019.
Supervisor: Dr. Juliana Bevilacqua.

McHutchion, Ben

Ben McHutchion, Ph.D. Candidate

Ben McHutchion

Ph.D. Candidate

Art History Program

Major Fields of Interest: Cultural heritage and its conservation, visual culture of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Europe and the Americas, British colonial history, disputes over public memorial statues. 
Dissertation Topic: Responses to the destruction of built heritage in World War Two Britain, including protective measures, photographic records, artistic records, rebuilding, and depictions of destruction across various media.
Undergraduate experience: University of Alberta, B.A. History (2014)
Graduate Experience: Queen鈥檚 University, M.A. in Art History (2019) M.A. Thesis: 鈥淐ollective Memory in Transition: Macdonald, Cornwallis and Statue Removal in Canada鈥
Supervisor: Dr. C. Hoeniger

Hobill, Astrid

Astrid Hobill, Ph.D. Candidate

Astrid Hobill

Ph.D. Candidate

Art History Program

Major Fields of Interest: Technical art history and the scientific examination of artworks, 15th and 16th century Netherlandish painting, conservation principles and practices.
Undergraduate Experience: M.A. Art history, 黄色视频; BAH in Political Science, 黄色视频.
PhD Research: A Technical comparison of the works of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
Supervisor: Dr. Ron Spronk