School Alum Personal WebsiteFields of Interest 16th Century Architecture Art History Italian Sculpture Background and ExperienceSummaryEducationPhD, Art History, University of Washington, 2017MA, Italian Renaissance Art History, University of Washington, 2012BA, Italian Studies and Art History, Smith College, Massachusetts, 2008 2017 College of Arts & Sciences Dean's Graduate Medalist in the Arts. Chosen by the Division of Art History for a 2017 de Cillia Graduating with Excellence Award. Speaker at the 2017 Graduation Celebration. Selected by the Division of Art History for a 2016 de Cillia Teaching with Excellence Award. Received a Samuel H Kress Fellowship and a Lloyd Nordstrom Scholarship. Chosen for a Foreign PhD Research Fellowship at the Dutch Institute in Florence, Italy. Holds a two-year postdoctoral position at Ludwig-Maximailians-Universitat in Munich, Germany, beginning in 2017. View Academia.edu profile. Research + Creative Work Selected Publications + Projects Erin Giffin. "Body and Apparition: Material Presence in Sixteenth-Century Italian Religious Sculpture." PhD Dissertation, University of Washington, 2017. Adviser: Stuart Lingo Read more Erin Giffin. "Nicolas Cordier's Il Moro: the African as "Christian Antiquity" in Early Modern Rome." MA Thesis, University of Washington, 2012. Adviser: Stuart Lingo Read more Courses Taught Spring 2017 ART H 203 AA: Survey Of Western Art-Modern ART H 203 AB: Survey Of Western Art-Modern ART H 203 AC: Survey Of Western Art-Modern ART H 203 AD: Survey Of Western Art-Modern Autumn 2016 ART H 361 A: Italian Renaissance Art Autumn 2015 ART H 361 A: Italian Renaissance Art Spring 2015 ART H 309: Communication Across Space: Sculpture and Multimedia Installation in the Italian Renaissance Related News Related News Art History: 2 PhDs + 3 MAs Jun 13, 2017 Graduate Medalist in the Arts Jun 11, 2017 Graduation + Teaching Awards Jun 11, 2017 Art History at RSA in Chicago Mar 17, 2017 Active Art History Graduate Students Jun 20, 2016 2016 Graduation + Teaching Awards Jun 13, 2016 Growing PhDs Oct 27, 2014 Art History Grad Students in Motion Feb 8, 2014
