Asimakis, Magdalyn

Magdalyn Asimakis, Ph.D. Candidate

Magdalyn Asimakis

Ph.D. Candidate

Art History Program

Major Fields of Interest: global modernisms, feminisms, curatorial practice, institutional critique, print culture.
Undergraduate Experience: University of Toronto, B.A. (Honours), Major in Art History, Major in History (2007)
Graduate Experience: University of Victoria, M.A., Art History (2010)
Supervisor: Dr. Allison Morehead

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’s 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), ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥.

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’s 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’s University, 2017.
Graduate Experience: M.A. in Art History, ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ (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 São 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’s University, M.A. in Art History (2019) M.A. Thesis: â€œCollective Memory in Transition: Macdonald, Cornwallis and Statue Removal in Canadaâ€
Supervisor: Dr. C. Hoeniger