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Chiara Gasparini, History of Art and Architecture, and 2024–25 OHC Faculty Research Fellow. Recent archaeological excavations in the western regions of China have brought to light textiles and artworks from 6th–9th-century Tuyuhun-Tibetan tombs, which suggest artistic and cultural exchanges along an external southern branch of the main Silk Road through the Himalayas. Through a comparative […]
Vera Keller, History, and 2024–25 OHC Faculty Research Fellow. For many today, the European Renaissance defined an impossible human ideal against which we have been measured and found lacking. I offer a new interpretation, contending that disability was centered in the period in forgotten ways. Individuals who demonstrated adaptive abilities, such as armless artists who […]
Sarah Agou, PhD candidate, Global Studies and Languages, and 2024–25 OHC Dissertation Fellow. My dissertation conceptualizes forced enclosures as a violence imposed on Indigenous Quebec, Haiti, and Cuba. Spatial enclosure took the form of reservations, forced displacements, and migration controls; gender violence and enforced heteronormativity created gender enclosures, upon which debt systems, neocolonialism, and heavy […]
Olivia Wing, PhD candidate, History, and 2024–25 OHC Dissertation Fellow. By the late 1960s Asian American youth played a central role in the creation of a pan-Asian American political identity. My dissertation seeks the pre-1960s origin of youth’s increasing prominence in the creation of Asian American cultural citizenship by examining intersections of youth, gender, and […]
Jennifer O’Neal, Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies, and 2024–25 OHC Faculty Research Fellow. Between 1975-1980, after major public takeovers of the Red Power movement, Native American activism shifted significantly from a domestic agenda to an international Indigenous initiative in the fight for sovereignty, self-determination, and human rights. My project explores how Native American activists and […]
Kate Mondloch, History of Art and Architecture, and 2024–25 OHC Faculty Research Fellow. Immersive art experiences are becoming increasingly popular, even outside of museums. This essay suggests using installation art theory to understand how viewers engage with these multisensory environments. By examining the characteristics of installation art and the types of spectatorship encouraged by commercial […]
