Category Archives: Outside Awards

Summer Internship Spotlight: Charlie Kuper

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Photo caption: A rare depiction of a Byzantine school (from the Madrid Skylitzes).

This past summer Charlie Kuper (PhD Candidate, MA 2013) participated in the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Greek Summer School in Washington, DC. The focus of this school was its daily translation sessions from a wide variety of both prose and poetic texts from the 4th through the 15th centuries, including orations of Gregory of Nazianzus, Athonite legal documents, and excerpts from the epic poem Digenes Akrites. The program also included a mini-course on Greek paleography, in which participants studied the most important majuscule and minuscule Greek scripts and were able to view some of the facsimiles in the Dumbarton Oaks collection.  During his time in Washington, Charlie was also able to finish one of his current side projects, the first modern language translation of the Life of St. Martha (early 7th century) under the guidance of the faculty there.

Summer Internship Spotlight: Michelle Smiley

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This summer, Michelle Smiley served as a graduate student intern at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., where she worked in the department of photography under curator Diane Waggoner. Michelle spent much of her time doing research for an upcoming exhibit of nineteenth-century photography on the east coast of the United States, titled “East of the Mississippi” (forthcoming, fall 2016). In particular, she researched individual photographers like William Herman Rau, a photographer for the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Henry Peter Bosse, a German-American photographer who served in the United States Corps of Engineers out of Rock Island, Illinois. Bosse photographed the development of the Mississppi in the 1880s and 1890s.

Above, Michelle can be seen cataloguing one of the twenty Bosse cyanotypes given to the National Gallery of Art. These are all part of the series “Views on the Mississippi River” which were displayed as an album at the 1893-94 Columbian Exhibition in Chicago.

The prestigious internship program at the National Gallery of Art also includes bi-weekly seminars that introduce the interns to all aspects of museum work, from library image collections, to curatorial, to the director’s office.

April 8-12, 2013 – Graduate Student Appreciation Week

Monday, April 8

Panel on Bryn Mawr Graduate Studies in the Community
4:30-6:30 PM
Dalton 300

Open to undergraduate and graduate students
Refreshments served

Confirmed Panelists

Julia Kent
Director of Global Communications and Best Practices at Council of Graduate Schools

Susan Sutton
Senior Advisor for International Initiatives

Nell Anderson
Co-Director of the Civic Engagement Office, Director of Praxis and Community Partnership Programs

Cindy Sousa
Assistant Professor of Social Work and Social Research

Moderator
Mary Osirim (Dean of Graduate Studies and Professor of Sociology)

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Tuesday, April 9

Keynote Speaker: Neal Abraham
“Pathways from Graduate Study at Bryn Mawr”
5:30 PM
Carpenter B21 and Atrium, Carpenter Library, Bryn Mawr College

Bryn Mawr’s graduate programs opened many doors to career options for me, for fellow graduate students of my era, and to graduate students I taught from 1980 to 1998. I will review and reflect on domestic and international opportunities and how they remain open for graduates of the current era.  Perspectives gained from faculty hiring and faculty development work at nine domestic colleges and universities and a dozen international universities will be shared as part of an optimistic discussion of the future of higher education and how best to prepare to contribute to that future.

Open to the undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff, alumnae/i
Refreshments served (alcohol served)

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Wednesday, April 10

Alumnae/i Networking “Meet & Greet”
6:00-8:00 PM
Ely Room, Wyndham, Bryn Mawr College

Open to graduate Students of GSAS and GSSWSR and Alumnae/i
Refreshments served (alcohol served)

Meet and network with Alumnae/i of GSAS and GSSWSR
Presentation of gifts to graduating graduate students

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Thursday, April 11

Graduate Student Research Symposium
5:00-7:00 PM
Thomas Great Hall, Bryn Mawr College

Open to the undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff, alumnae/i
Refreshments served

Presentation of Graduate Faculty Mentor Awards
Short Talk by Professor Sandy Schram, GSSWSR

Please join us!

OUTSIDE AWARDS 2009-2010

Mrs. Giles Whiting Fellowships in the Humanities

Marie Gasper-Hulvan (History of Art)

Andrea Guzzetti (Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology)

Catherine Person (Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology)

Lesley Shipley (History of Art)

David E. Finley Fellow, 2009-2012; Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts

Benjamin Anderson (History of Art)

2010 Helena Wylde Swiny and Stuart Swiny Fellowship; Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute

Stella Diakou (Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology)

Virginia Grace Fellowship; American School of Classical Studies in Athens

Emily Stevens (Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology)

Berthe-Marti Award; American Academy in Rome

Jessica Sisk (Greek, Latin and Classical Studies)