Over the course of their ten-day trip, the students from both universities visited more than a dozen museums and historic sites in Hangzhou and Shanghai.
The series was inaugurated in 1949 to "bring to the people of the United States the results of the best contemporary thought and scholarship bearing upon the subject of the Fine Arts” from any discipline.
These awards honor the memory of Professor Molholt Vanel who taught in the department from 2008 to 2014. It commemorates her deep interest in travel and museum experience.
Allison Pappas received a Research Support Grant from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art to complete archival work for the first chapter of her dissertation.
Tiffany explores how the queen constructed her identity with the art that had come into her possession, and analyzes the circulation of such art in the later Middle Ages.