Notes About Contributors
Rachel Kline is a fifth-year PhD candidate studying the art of the Italian Renaissance. Rachel’s research interests include the representation of the female nude in fifteenth-century Italy and the decoration of Florentine marriage chests. Rachel has held positions at the Penn Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Kaylee Kelley is a doctoral student focusing on art of the early modern period. Her research centers on Renaissance tapestries created across Italy, Flanders, and England with an emphasis on their literary sources and curation. She has held positions at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Medici Archive Project.
Sunmin Cha is a PhD candidate at Columbia University focusing on the intersections between religious iconography and artistic production in sixteenth-century Haarlem, with a particular emphasis on the Man of Sorrows. She is currently writing her dissertation which examines how artists like Maarten van Heemskerck, Cornelis van Haarlem, and Hendrick Goltzius responded to the religious and political shifts of the time through their paintings.
Madison Clyburn is an Art History PhD Candidate at McGill University. Her work focuses on medicinal perfumes and the material culture of women’s wellness in late medieval and early modern Italy. She has written for The Recipes Project, Ornamentum magazine, and the SSHRC-funded project Hidden Hands in Colonial Natural Histories.
Mya Rose Bailey (they/she) is an Afro-Caribbean scholar interested in multisensory anthropology, temporality, and memory in Black history and culture. They hold a BA in Art History from SUNY New Paltz and are currently completing their MA in Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture from Bard Graduate Center.
Elise Racine is a Washington, DC-based multidisciplinary activist, emerging artist, and PhD candidate at the University of Oxford. Using arts-based methodologies, her research examines the socio-ethical implications of emerging technologies, like artificial intelligence. Recent exhibitions include: The Bigger Picture (Beta Festival 2024, Ireland) and Unearthing (Sims Contemporary, NYC).
R.J. Maupin is a second-year master’s student in Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture at Bard Graduate Center. Her focus is American glass history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with particular interests in labor, industrialization, gender, and the performative aspects of craft.
Angelina Diamante is an MA candidate at Sotheby’s Institute of Art (Valedictorian, with distinction) and a specialist in Italian Renaissance and Baroque European painting and sculpture. Recently, her research has considered art and its intersection with the esoteric and occult, evincing motifs such as classical paganism and the Gothic.