Biographies

Emily Mirales

Emily Mirales will be graduating this spring with majors in the History of Art & Architecture and Anthropology along with a minor in Museum Studies. As a dual major studying art and archaeology, Emily has developed an interest in material culture studies and the interactions that occur between people, objects, and places.

Brianna Humbert

Brianna Humbert is a senior majoring in the History of Art & Architecture with a minor in French language. Her research focuses on women artists and often takes on a feminist perspective. She is interested in a range of topics in modern and contemporary art, including identity, performance, collective art projects, and feminist art of the 1970s.

Nikita Costantini

Nikita Costantini is a senior at the University of Pittsburgh majoring in History of Art and Architecture and double minoring in German Language Studies and Museum Studies. After graduation in December 2016, she plans to move to Germany to work and practice her language skills.

Michael Guttilla

A non-traditional student, Michael Guttilla, re-started an architectural education begun at Blair Academy.  His hiatus from the conventional path was spent drafting, cooking, cage fighting, and collecting credits at community college.  Upon entering the University of Pittsburgh, Michael declared Architectural Studies as his major and competed for the Pitt Snowboard Freesytle Team. He will graduate this April.

Laura Giudici

Graduated in art history at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland), Laura Giudici is a PhD candidate working for the Art & Science doctoral program launched by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Her PhD. project – “Identités fluides: la représentation du corps intersexué de la naissance de la photographie à nos jours” – is related to the chair of Modern and Contemporary Art History of the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and is under the direction of Prof. Victor I. Stoichita.

Tim Fessenden

Tim Fessenden holds a Masters in Translational Science and is a doctoral candidate in Cancer Biology, both at the University of Chicago. His research in the lab of Margaret Gardel uses live microscopy to capture 3D movements and shape changes of cells within model tissues. Together with the lab's findings on the physical basis of cell migration, this project will characterize cell behaviors underlying cancer invasion and metastasis.

Caroline Pirri

Caroline Pirri is a 2nd year PhD student in the English Department at Rutgers University. Her interests include late-Tudor and early-Stuart court performance, early modern popular media and the phenomenology of vision. Her current project examines the popularity of emblems and impresas in the early decades of Stuart rule and explores the ways in which the revision and dramatization of continental emblem books assisted in the creation of a national mythology.

Ginger Elliott Smith

Ginger Elliott Smith is a PhD candidate in art history at Boston University, currently researching the ideological and sociological contexts of art and technoscience. Her dissertation, 'Practicing Big Science: Art, Technology, and Institutions in 1960s and 1970s Southern California,' analyzes a group of Southern California artists who responded to, and often directly incorporated, science and technology into their studio and post-studio practices.

Matthew Allen

Matthew Allen is a PhD candidate at Harvard University whose work investigates cognitive prosthetics in architecture and science. He holds an MArch from Harvard University and previously taught at the University of Toronto.

https://harvard.academia.edu/MatthewAllen