Biographies

Jeff Richmond-Moll is a doctoral student in Art History at the University of Delaware, studying nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American art. His current research investigates the role of religion in transcultural artistic exchanges, the interplay of religion and American national identity, and the contested nature of sculpture in the Protestant art-making tradition. He graduated in 2010 from Princeton University with an A.B.

Patricia K. Guiley is a graduate student in the Department of Art History at the University of Utah. Ms. Guiley’s thesis focuses on graffiti art in the 21st century with an emphasis on graffiti’s subculture. Ms. Guiley has presented papers on graffiti at both the University of Nevada and the University of Arizona’s symposiums in the winter of 2014 and will be presenting a paper at the International Conference on Street Art & Urban Creativity in Lisbon Portugal, July 2014.

Alicia Puglionesi is completing her doctoral dissertation in the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology at Johns Hopkins University. Her project, 'The Astonishment of Experience: Americans and Psychical Research, 1885-1935,' deals with the emerging boundaries between professionals and amateurs engaged in the study of the mind around the turn of the twentieth century.

Juliet Sperling is a Ph.D. candidate in the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2014-2015, she is a Wyeth Foundation Predoctoral Fellow in American Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, where she is at work on her dissertation, 'Animating Flatness: Seeing Moving Images in American Painting and Mass Visual Culture, 1820-1895.'

https://upenn.academia.edu/JulietSperling 

Max Adzema is from Pittsburgh. He is currently a senior studying History of Art and Architecture with a minor in Museum Studies.  Among other classes this semester, he is taking HAA 1010 and HAA 1020 which are exhibited in HAAARCH.  He will be presenting a thesis on the Czechoslovak Nationality Room, which investigates the challenges and benefits of having both Czech and Slovak identities reflected in a single room.

Kieran Bell is a freshman Civil Engineering student in the Swanson School of Engineering hoping to complete a program of study in Architecture and focus on structural engineering. He takes HAA classes as electives to fulfill requirements while working toward his engineering degree, and finds them an enjoyable and interesting departure from his normal course work.

Sierra Smith is a senior at the University of Pittsburgh, majoring in Architectural Studies and minoring in Studio Arts. Sierra decided to come to the University of Pittsburgh because its built environment was the most aesthetically pleasing to her out of any other school.

Kimberly is currently a junior, intending to graduate in the spring of 2016, majoring in Architectural Studies and Studio Arts.  During the summer of 2014, she participated in the History of Art and Architecture’s study abroad program “Architectural Studies in Central Europe” and was awarded a study abroad scholarship from the Russian and Eastern European Studies Office.  She is currently enrolled in the first ever honors level studio HAA 1918 Design Studio 3 and will be taking Design Studio 4 the fall o