SIGA briefs

12/16/2024 Publication

Mark MacDonald: From Posada to Isotype, from Kollwitz to Catlett

Mark McDonald has published a review of the exhibition, “From Posada to Isotype, from Kollwitz to Catlett: Exchanges of Political Print Culture,” in the most recent issue of Print Quarterly.

11/19/2024 People

Cloe Cavero de Carondelet has been appointed to the Editorial Board of the Boletín del Museo del Prado.

Cloe Cavero de Carondelet has been appointed to the Editorial Board of the Boletín del Museo del Prado.

11/18/2024 Publication

Visual Histories from Medieval Iberia: Arts and Ambivalence

Jerrilynn Dodds recently published Visual Histories from Medieval Iberia: Arts and Ambivalence, part of the CARMEN Visual and Material Cultures series released by Arc Humanities Press (Arc).

11/15/2024 People

Escobar Named Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor in the Humanities

Many congratulations to Jesús Escobar, who has been named Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University. Dr. Escobar’s 2022 book, Habsburg Madrid: Architecture and the Spanish Monarchy (Penn State University Press), which won SIGA’s 2023 Eleanor Tufts Award, is currently being translated and will be published by Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica next year.

9/12/2024 People

Benito Navarrete appointed to Advisory Board of Master Drawings

Benito Navarrete has been appointed to the Advisory Board of the journal Master Drawings.

9/7/2024 Publication

Paula Fayos Pérez: Goya’s Caprichos in Nineteenth-Century France

Paula Fayos Pérez has published Goya’s Caprichos in Nineteenth-Century France. Politics of the Grotesque (Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica: CEEH).

7/30/2024 People

Jesús Escobar appointed Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Jesús Escobar will be a member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton for the 2024–25 academic year. There, he will be working on a book project currently titled “Americans Abroad in the Seventeenth Century: People, Buildings, and the Space of Empire.”

7/23/2024 People

Anthony Meyer appointed Austen-Stokes Fellow and Assistant Professor at the IFA

Anthony Meyer was selected as the Austen-Stokes Ancient Americas Postdoctoral Fellow for 2024-2025 in the Department of the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University. Following this appointment, Meyer will join the faculty of the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University as an Assistant Professor beginning September 2025.