Eric Colbert
4+1 MA Student, Art History Program
Eric Colbert’s FOAH travel research award allowed him to visit the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and study Umberto Boccioni's “Unique Forms of Continuity in Space” (cast 1931). The piece is the main focus of his thesis, “Umberto Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space: How materiality obfuscates originality, intent, and ethics.”
Christine Mugnolo
PhD Candidate, Visual Studies Program
Christine Mugnolo received a Friends of Art History travel award to visit library archives at Princeton and Yale University for her dissertation, “The Adolescent in American Print,” which focuses on representations of the adolescent male in early twentieth-century American print media. Christine was able to access materials at the archives including late nineteenth to early twentieth-century editions of the Princeton Tiger and the Yale Record (two college humor magazines) and examine their handling of college youth themes.
Sharissa Iqbal
PhD Candidate, Visual Studies Program
Sharissa Iqbal received a Friends of Art History travel research award to fund two separate trips to New York City for further dissertation research on Los Angeles artists Helen Lundenberg, Mary Corse, and Frederick Eversley. Sharissa visited archives at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and Guggenheim Museum, where she had access to exhibition materials and artists files on each of the three, including the first major retrospective on Corse, currently on display at the Whitney. Later this fall, Sharissa also plans on attending a symposium on Corse’s artistic career at the Whitney. During this second trip, she will also meet with our faculty member Professor Cecile Whiting, who is in New York City working on her own research.
Marianna Davison
PhD Candidate, Visual Studies Program
Marianna Davison received a FOAH travel research award to visit three archives in Seattle: The University of Washington Special Collections Archives, The Seattle Municipal Archives, and the Seattle Art Museum Bullit Library Special Collections Archives, where she conducted the majority of her archival research for her dissertation, “Places for People: Aesthetics and Ethics of Landscape Reclamation in the Pacific Northwest,” which focuses on site-specific projects in Seattle.
Julian Francolino
PhD Candidate, Visual Studies Program
Julian Francolino received a FOAH travel research award to visit San Francisco, where he was able to visit three muralism sites: “History of San Francisco” by Anton Refrieger, the “Coit Towers Murals,” and “The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City” by Diego Rivera. These monumental works tie into Julian’s dissertation, “Variations on Monumentality: Laboring Bodies and Socialist Imagery, 1930-1970,” which focuses on the themes of mid-twentieth century communist, socialist, and leftists monumentality.
Scott Volz
PhD Candidate, Visual Studies Program
Scott Volz received a travel research award to aid his work as Graduate Student Assistant Researcher for the UCI Institute and Museum of California Art (“IMCA”) assisting Museum Registrar, Amy Lim, with inventorying and registering the artwork constituting the Buck Collection, currently held in storage in Los Angeles and Laguna Beach. Scott’s internship and this award have proved beneficial to his research work in California Modernism, specifically the 1960’s - 1970’s Light and Space movement, where he was able to examine the works of many prominent California Modernists in close capacity.
