SIGA briefs
Ronda Kasl appointed Scholar in Practice
Ronda Kasl has been appointed Scholar in Practice on Columbia University’s Committee on Global Thought, a multidisciplinary forum established to advance understanding of global issues and challenges.
Annemarie Jordan Gschwend: On Francisco de Holanda
Annemarie Jordan Gschwend has recently published the essay “On Francisco de Holanda, the Queen of Portugal and the Parma Miniatures” in Parma: crocevia di cultura in Europa. Atti del convegno (Parma, 2022), pp. 43-53.
Carmen Ripollés: Reframing Art History
Carmen Ripollés has published two chapters for the open-access multimedia Smarthistory textbook Reframing Art History: “The sacred baroque in the Catholic world” and “Secular matters of the global baroque.”
Julie A. Harris: Deliberate in Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts from Iberia
Julie A. Harris has recently published “Deliberate in Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts from Iberia,” Ars Judaica 17 (2021) 1-23.
Ronda Kasl: 'Things They Do Not Have’
Ronda Kasl has published “‘Things They Do Not Have’: Royal Spanish Gifts for the Emperor of China,” in Tributes to Maryan W. Ainsworth; Collaborative Spirit: Essays on Northern European Art, 1350–1650, ed. Anna Koopstra, Christine Seidel, and Joshua P. Waterman (Turnhout: Brepols/Harvey Miller Publishers, 2022), 298–314.
Laura Fernández González promoted
Laura Fernández González has been promoted to Associate Professor (T/R; what is called elsewhere in the UK as Reader) effective from 1st September 2022.
Therese Martin and Mariam Rosser-Owen: Silver and Niello in Islamic Iberia
Therese Martin and Mariam Rosser-Owen have recently published “Silver and Niello in Islamic Iberia: A New Look at the Material Evidence,” West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture 28, no. 2 (2021): 290-297.
Adam Jasienski: Disgust and the Sacred Image in Early Modernity
Adam Jasienski published “Disgust and the Sacred Image in Early Modernity,” in Sacrifice and Conversion in the Early Modern Atlantic World, ed. Maria Berbara, I Tatti Research Series 3 (Milan: Officina Libraria, 2022), 243-270. He will further develop this project with support from Villa I Tatti: The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, as a Bernard Berenson Fellow, and the Thoma Foundation, where he is the Marilynn Thoma Post-Doctoral Fellow.