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Hannah Ebin Awarded Pennsylvania Psychological Association’s 2015 Graduate Research Poster Session Award

Hannah Ebin - Poster Award

Hannah Ebin, Ph.D. Candidate in the Clinical Developmental Psychology Program, has been awarded for her contribution to the Graduate Research Poster Session at the annual convention of the Pennsylvania Psychological Association.

Hannah’s project, entitled “Teaching Number Sense: An Intervention for At-Risk Kindergarten Students,” evaluated the effectiveness of an intervention program with kindergarten students who demonstrated weak number skills. According to Hannah’s study, students who participated in the intervention demonstrated significantly greater improvements on measures of identifying numerals, discriminating quantity, and identifying the missing number in a sequence than peer students who received regular classroom instruction.

 

Congratulations to our 2015 GSAS Graduates!

GSAS 2015 PhDs

The following students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences received Ph.D. and M.A. degrees at Bryn Mawr College’s commencement on May 16, 2015.

Doctor of Philosophy
Johanna Loren Carey Best – Archaeology
Clay Matthew Cofer – Archaeology
Maeve Kathleen Doyle – History of Art
Ryan J. Fealy (December 2014) – Chemistry
Eva Govinda Goedhart – Mathematics
Steven Thomas Karacic (December 2014) – Archaeology
Kristin Kopple – Clinical Developmental Psychology
Melissa Jane Meier – History of Art
Beth Lauren Mugno – Clinical Developmental Psychology

Masters of Arts
Nissa Abidi – Chemistry
Sarah Michelle Burford (December 2014) – History of Art
Luca Antonio D’Anselmi (December 2014) – Classics
Amber Charlotte Ehrke – French
Douglas Ryan Gisewhite (December 2014) – Chemistry
Ivy Charlotte Gray-Klein – History of Art
Collin Miles Hilton – Classics
Michaela F. Houtkin – History of Art
Justinne Kaniukapu Lake-Jedzinak – History of Art
Jessica Lee – Classics
Otis Munroe – Archaeology
Samantha Marie Pezzimenti – Mathematics
Emily Victoria Schroeter – Mathematics
Hannah Rebecca Schwartz – Mathematics
Michelle Lynn Smiley – History of Art
Nava Streiter – History of Art
Arielle Alyssa Winnik – History of Art
Mechella Ignace Yezernitskaya – History of Art
Qianni Zhu – History of Art

Art Historian Catherine Soussloff (AB ’73, PhD ’82) delivers series of lectures at the College de France

Catherine Soussloff (AB ’73, PhD ’82) was invited as a Visiting Lecturer at the College de France where she delivered a series of lectures on the topic “Michel Foucault on Painting.” The lectures relate to her next book project, Michel Foucault and Painting.

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Catherine Soussloff is Professor of Art History at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of British Columbia. Before that, she taught for 24 years at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Professor Soussloff earned her doctorate from Bryn Mawr in 1982 with a dissertation directed by David Cast, Critical Topoi in the Sources on the Life of Gianlorenzo Bernini.

 

History of Art Professor Homay King discusses her role in new Met exhibition

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The new exhibition from The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, China: Through the Looking Glass, explores the influence of Chinese culture and fashion on Western designers. And the sophistication and sensitivity with which the exhibition presents the complicated nexus of exchange between East and West is, according to a recent article in the International Business Times, thanks to Homay King, Bryn Mawr History of Art Professor and Director of Program in Film Studies and Center for Visual Culture. King became involved in the project after curator Andrew Bolton read her book Lost in Translation: Orientalism, Cinema and the Enigmatic Signifier, which explores how Western cinema has portrayed East Asia as a land of mystery.

Professor King also contributed an essay to the exhibition catalog, “Cinema’s Virtual Chinas.”

Filmic representations of China made in Hollywood create and disseminate fantasies about the East that have been more inspirational to designers than any actual visits to China, explains Bolton in a Business of Fashion article. Still, both Bolton and King were anxious to get outside of a critical framework of exploitation and “Orientalism” in their assessment of these hybrid cultural products. Instead they advocate a more nuanced study of this work, one that simultaneously recognizes the influence of largely inaccurate collective fantasies about China while also allowing for and admitting the pleasure of looking at these stunning costumes.

The show remains open through August 16th.

Read More:

Review of the exhibition in the Washington Post

Vogue interview between curator Andrew Bolton and designer John Galliano