The 2009 Whiting Fellows Presentations took place on October 27^th. Whiting Fellowships in the Humanities are awarded to outstanding students who are in the final stages of completing their Ph.D.s. These awards are funded by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation and are available to doctoral students at Bryn Mawr, University of Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford and Yale. Departments can nominate no more than two students for the award. At this event, this year’s Whiting Fellows reported on the dissertation projects for which they won the fellowships.

This year’s Whiting Fellows are:

Nicholas Blackwell Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Dissertation: An Analysis of 2nd Millennium BC

Mediterranean Bronze Carpentry and Masonry Tools: Implications for Craftsmanship and Cultural/Regional

Interaction

Joelle Collins Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Dissertation: Arts as Commodity in the

Roman World

Rebecca Dubay History of Art Dissertation: The Pursuit of American Painting in the 1960s: Frank Stella, Agnes Martin, Robert Ryman, and Anne Truitt

Kent Southworth received a George Kline Fellowship to study in Moscow through American Councils of Teachers of Russian (ACTR). Kent will be enrolled in a 2-month area studies program at Moscow International Univeristy.

The first half of Matt’s internship (summer ’07) will be spent at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where he will assist with research for an upcoming exhibition on Cezanne. In the second half (Fall ‘07), he will be in the College Collections at Bryn Mawr, working on a little-studied collection of 19th-century French prints.

Cathy Person has received a Fulbright Grant to attend the American School for Classical Studies in Athens, where she has been accepted into their Regular Member Program for in 2007-2008.

The Regular Program of the American School offers an intensive introduction to and survey of the sites, monuments, history, and archaeology of Greece, from prehistoric times to the present, with a focus on sites dating from the Bronze Age through the Roman period. The program consists of three terms and runs from September to June.  read more

REBECCA DUBAY (History of Art)
Rebecca is a second-year TA who is honored for her work in two of History of Art’s introductory seminars: The Classical Tradition and Women, Feminism and the History of Art. Students wrote that Rebecca is “incredibly conscientious,” “incredibly organized,” “so understanding of personal situations,” and “amazing and should make a very good professor some day.” One of the faculty members whom she assisted called her work “exemplary, responsible, thorough, and fully engaged,” noting among her many contributions “reminding me of things to do.”