Or Vallah (she/her/hers)

I am a doctoral candidate in Art History and a fellow in the Disability Studies Certificate Program. My doctoral dissertation examines the Italian Renaissance as a period of self-definition for artists as professionals and the development of various behavioral and emotional models shaped by social and bodily experiences in sixteenth-century Florence. I am also pursuing a Graduate Certificate in Disability Studies. 

Before coming to UW, I worked as an educator at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the Negev Museum of Art in Be'er Sheva and worked as an Assistant Curator at the Ilana Goor Museum in Jaffa. I am serving as the Graduate Students of Art History (GSAH) VP,  2020-2022; a member of the School of Art +Art History + Design's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion + Accessibility (DEIA) committee, 2021-2022; and as the Division of Art History's Grad Student Representative, 2020-2022. 

• Recipient of a Mortar Board Alumni's Tolo Scholarship, 2021. 
• Recipient of a Lloyd W. Nordstrom Art Scholarship, 2021.
• Selected by the Division of Art History to receive a de Cillia Teaching with Excellence Award, 2021.
• Recipient of a Julaine Martin Endowed Scholarship in the Arts, 2020.
• Recipient of a William P. and Ruth Gerberding Rome Studies Fellowship, University of Washington, 2019.
• Recipient of a Mortar Board Alumni/Tolo Foundation scholarship in honor of Elizabeth Ayers, 2019.
• Recipient of a Lloyd W. Nordstrom Art Scholarship, 2019.