Nelson, Joshua
Joshua Nelson
Ph.D. Candidate
Art History Program
Ph.D. Candidate
Art History Program
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
Ph.D. Candidate
Art History Program
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 
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
Art Conservation student Tirza Harris is the first recipient of the National Gallery of Canada's new . The Program is a collaborative effort with the Art Conservation program at ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ and the Canadian Conservation Institute, and aims to increase the representation of diverse professionals.
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.
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: “Collective Memory in Transition: Macdonald, Cornwallis and Statue Removal in Canadaâ€
Supervisor: Dr. C. Hoeniger
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, ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥; BAH in Political Science, ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥.
PhD Research: A Technical comparison of the works of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
Supervisor: Dr. Ron Spronk
Ph.D. Candidate
Art History Program
Major Fields of Interest: Early Netherlandish art, Technical Art History
Undergraduate Experience: BFA in Painting, California College of the Arts
Graduate Experience: MA ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥, Art History
MA Topic: The Elusive Brushstroke: A quest for objectivity in connoisseurship.
PhD Thesis Topic: On the concept of authenticity in the study, conservation, and display of Early Netherlandish art.
Supervisor: Professor Ron Spronk