# PhD Alums

**Source**: https://art.stanford.edu/alums/phd-alums
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Alums with updates or changes to information on this page are invited to contact us at artdepartment [at] stanford.edu (artdepartment[at]stanford[dot]edu).

| Name | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Meagan Khoury (Ph.D. 2025) | Brush, Needle, Knife: Women’s Creative Labor in Northern Italy, 15025 – 1650 | Adjunct Assistant Professor, The Cooper Union |
| Linden Hill (Ph.D. 2025) | Glamour Against the Grain: Fashioning Identity in Postwar American Commercial Spaces, 1955-1970 | Lecturer, College of Arts and Sciences, Santa Clara University |
| Ron Elizedek Reichman (Ph.D. 2025) | Picasso and the Subversion of Heterosexual Masculinity, 1906-1914 | Teaching Fellow, History of Art Department, Tel Aviv University |
| Martabel Wasserman (Ph.D. 2025) | Capturing the Rock: Alcatraz and the (Un)Making of the Carceral Landscape |  |
| Amber Lynn Harper (Ph.D. 2025) | Speech, Signs, Alphabet: Dada and the Language of German Imperialism | Research Associate, ICAM, Leuphana University of Lüneburg |
| Indira Choudhury (Ph.D. 2024) | The Solace of Color: Frank Bowling's White Paintings |  |
| Altair Brandon-Salmon (Ph.D. 2024) | Strange Worlds: London in Ruins, 1940-1994 | Lecturer, Civic, Liberal, and Global Education (COLLEGE) programme, Stanford University |
| Henry Martin (Hank) Gerba (Ph.D. 2024) | Digital Disruptions: Moiré, Aliasing, and the Stroboscopic Effect | Lead Researcher & Producer, Entertainment Technology Center, University of Southern California |
| Graylin Harrison (Ph.D. 2024) | City of Skulls: Art, Ritual, and the Afterlife in Early Modern Naples | Garden and Landscape Fellow, Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University |
| Kelly Filreis (Ph.D. 2024) | Art Under a Spell: Gender, Sexuality, and Esotericism in Los Angeles | Operations and Programs Manager, Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) |
| Alexandria Rebecca Brown-Hedjazi (Ph.D. 2023) | The Arts of Diplomacy: Artistic Exchange Between Italy and Safavid Iran | Associate Scholar, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut |
| Christian Whitworth (Ph.D. 2023) | Screen Stutter: Lettrism and the Disarticulation of the Avant-Garde | Director, Fraenkel Gallery |
| Jon Davies (Ph.D. 2023) | The Fountain: Art, Sex and Queer Pedagogy in San Francisco, 1945–1995 | SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Carleton University, Ottawa |
| Helen Krueger (Ph.D. 2022) | Existential Reflections: Paintings of Starry Nights, 1888-1931 |  |
| Jennie Waldow (Ph.D. 2022) | Disappearing Acts: Allen Ruppersberg's Ephemeral Impulse | Curatorial assistant and collection specialist, Hammer Museum, UCLA |
| Lora Webb (Ph.D. 2022) | ‘Kosmos’ Embodied: Eunuchs and Byzantine Art in the Ninth through Twelfth Centuries | Post-doctoral Fellow, ANAMED, Koç University, Turkey |
| Erik Yingling (Ph.D. 2022) | The Mask of Metamorphosis: Costumes and Ritualized Dress at the Crossroads of Rome and Africa | Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Arts and Letters, BYU |
| Yechen Zhao (Ph.D. 2022) | The Value of Reproduction in American Photography, 1969-1974: Authorship, Ownership, and Culpability | Assistant Curator, Photography and Media, Art Institute of Chicago |
| Caroline Culp (Ph.D. 2022) | The Presence of Copley: Animacy, Magic, and Afterlife in American Painting, 1765-1925 | Warren Family Assistant Curator, American Folk Art Museum, NYC |
| Daniel Smith (Ph.D. 2022) | Dreaming in Public: Art, Politics, and Power in Late Medieval Rome | Assistant Curator, The Jewish Museum |
| Cycle Metzger (Ph.D. 2021) | Deep Cuts: Transgender History in US-American Art After World War II | Associate Chair of the Department of Art & Design and Assistant Professor of Art History, Bradley University |
| Sean O'Hanlan (Ph.D. 2020) | Andre Breton and the Modern Art of Collecting | Research Associate, The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| Kyle Stephan (Ph.D. 2020) | Cosmic Noise: Juan Downey and the Postcolonial Politics of Cold War Communication | Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, The Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University |
| Yu-Chuan Chen (Ph.D. 2019) | Activating the Sacred Landscape: The Visual Culture of the Wuyi Mountains | Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Hong Kong |
| Alexis Bard Johnson (Ph.D. 2019) | Turning the Page: Image and Identity in U.S. Lesbian Magazines | Curator at ONE Archives at the USC Libraries |
| Joseph Larnerd (Ph.D. 2019) | Decorative Cut Glass and the Working Class in America, 1876 to 1916 | Assistant Professor of Art History, Drexel University |
| Conor Lauesen (Ph.D. 2019) | Contemplation in Fire: Immolation, Photography, and Vietnam 1963 |  |
| Yinshi Lerman-Tan (Ph.D. 2019) | Living Still: John F. Peto and the Artist Across Time | Bradford and Christine Mishler Associate Curator of American Art at the Huntington |
| Henry Rownd (Ph.D. 2019) | Preminger’s Doubt: Close Analysis and Film Aesthetics in the Aftermath of Old Hollywood |  |
| Anna Pawlowski (Ph.D. 2019) | Sanctified Commodities: The Buddhist Paintings of Wu Bin (c. 1540–1626) and the Late Ming Buddhist Revival |  |
| Ravinder Singh Binning (Ph.D. 2019) | The Medieval Art of Fear: Christ Pantokrator After Iconoclasm |  |
| Na-Jung Kim (Ph.D. 2019) | Displaced Landscape: The Art and Life of Ni Zan (1301–1374) |  |
| Hsinyi Tiffany Lee (Ph.D. 2018) | Through a National Lens: The Art and Politics of Photography in Republican China |  |
| George Lebourdais (Ph.D. 2018) | Tracing the Arctic Regions: Exploring Ice and Time in Nineteenth-Century Photographs of Greenland | CEO/Founder, didametic |
| Michael Metzger (Ph.D. 2018) | Zoom Epistemologies: Technology, Education and Representation in the 1970s | Pick-Laudati Academic Curator for Cinema and Media Arts, The Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University |
| Natalie Pellolio (Ph.D. 2018) | Return to Sender: Photography, Art, and the Mail, 1845–1945 | Visiting Professor, California College of the Arts |
| Oliver Shultz (Ph.D. 2018) | Paul Thek: Untimely Bodies, 1963–1988 | Chief Curator, Pace Gallery, NY |
| Sydney Simon (Ph.D. 2018) | Harry Bertoia and Postwar American Design Culture | Bradley Associate Curator of Academic Affairs, Yale University |
| Kate Cowcher (Ph.D. 2017) | Between Revolutionary Motherland and Death: Art and Visual Culture in Socialist Ethiopia | Lecturer in Art History, University of St. Andrews |
| Eldon Pei (Ph.D. 2017) | “Real People, Real Events”: Actuality and Mass Politics in Maoist Documentary Cinema | Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Stanford |
| Eduardo Vivanco Antolin (Ph.D. 2017) | School of Frankenstein: James Whale and the Experience of Film and Architecture as Education in Progressive Era America | Assistant Professor in Architectural and Design Studies, Endicott College |
| John Blakinger (Ph.D. 2016) | Artist Under Technocracy: Gyorgy Kepes and the Cold War Avant-Garde | Associate Professor of Contemporary Art, University of Arkansas |
| Grant Hamming (Ph.D. 2016) | Amerikanischer Malkasten: American Art and Düsseldorf | Collegiate Associate Professor and Program Director, Virginia Tech |
| Rachel Newman (Ph.D. 2016) | Conjuring Cane: The Art of William Berryman and Caribbean Sugar Plantations | Assistant Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Columbia University |
| David Fresko (Ph.D. 2015) | Montage-Praxis-Politics: Radical French and American Film of the 1960s and 1970s | Associate Teaching Professor of Cinema Studies, Rutgers University |
| Anne Ronan (Ph.D. 2015) | Beauty and the Bestiary: Animal Art and Humane Thought in the Gilded Age | Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech |
| Alexander Greenhough (Ph.D. 2015) | Solitude in Postwar Italian and French Cinema | Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Stanford |
| Huiping Pang (Ph.D. 2015) | Art Confiscations and Cultural Diplomacy: The Ming (1368–1644) Imperial Inventory System at Work |  |
| Ellen Tani (Ph.D. 2015) | Black Conceptualism and the Atmospheric Turn, 1968–2008 | Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology |
| Kenneth White (Ph.D. 2015) | Libidinal Engineers: Three Studies in Cybernetics and Its Discontents | Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies, Binghamton University |