Margaret graduated with honors from the University of Nevada,
Reno in winter 2021. During her undergraduate career, she helped
lead and draft an introductory honors course designed to help
first-year students explore majors and careers, including art
history. Her undergraduate honors thesis explored the Greek and
Phoenician influence on pre-Roman Iberian sculptures and the
modern political context of these works in Spain.
B.A., Art History, University of California, Davis, 2022
Hattie graduated summa cum laude from the University of
California, Davis in spring of 2022. During her undergraduate
career at UC Davis, her research explored the world of classical
sculpture and architecture, primarily in relation to contemporary
building practices. Her current graduate research continues this
theme and with a focus on architectural revivalism through the
use of classical aesthetics and practices found in contemporary
building design.
B.A., Art History with Emphasis in Museum Studies and Architecture, University of California, Davis
Kayetana Klinghoffer graduated with Honors from UC Davis in 2022.
Her undergraduate thesis studied possible connections between the
American Arts and Crafts Movement and Modern Architecture in the
Netherlands due social, political and educational conditions of
the early 20th century. Now an M.A. student, she plans to study
the continuing influence of colonial stereotypes and narratives
on contemporary visual culture within, and pertaining to, Latin
America.
B.A., Art History, California State University, Fresno
Allison Nakazawa graduated summa cum laude with college honors
from California State University, Fresno in the spring of 2022.
At CSU Fresno she interned in the Phebe Conley Gallery and was a
student in the College of Arts and Humanities Honors Program
where her honors thesis focused on the female patrons of the
Italian Renaissance. She continues this thread, examining the
intersection of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies and art
history in the early modern period. Her current research
investigates sapphic imagery in eighteenth-century British
decorative arts.
B.A., Anthropology, University of California, Davis
Lawrence Stallman earned his B.A. in Anthropology
(socio-cultural) at the University of California, Davis. His
undergraduate research focused on discourse analysis, social
theory, archaeology and visual culture. His current graduate
research is situated around the production of material culture in
Latin American and pre-Columbian societies.