2026 HAD Student Symposium

2026 HAD Student Symposium can be reviewed here.

You can view Keynote Speech, Undergraduate Symposium and Graduate Symposium. Just click on the poster to play the video.

Congratulations to all graduating students!

Undergraduate Students

Anivia Deng

The Sublate Experience of Shitting: Wim Delvoye’s Cloaca

Senior Seminar, Advisor: Eva Diaz

Cristobal Cosio

From Possession to Maintenance: Fruit at the Edge of Art History

Independent Study, Advisor: Agnes Berecz

Veronica de Oliveira Castro

The Licio Isolani Collection and Archive: History, Catalogue, & Research for Preventative Preservation

Independent Study, Advisor: Lisa Banner

Jay Vargas Garcia

Digital Black Bodies

Independent Study, Advisor: Agnes Berecz

Wren Stryker

The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even: Duchamp’s Conservation & Conserving Duchamp

Undergraduate Thesis, Advisor: Karyn Zieve

Ariel Wills

Faking It ‘Till You Make It: Fakes, Forgeries, and Authentication of Vincent van Gogh’s Work

Undergraduate Thesis, Advisor: Caterina Pierre

Alexandria Lopez-Martinson

Family Matters: The American Multiracial Body and The Moving Image

Undergraduate Thesis, Advisor: Agnes Berecz

Graduate Students

Aditya Srinidhi

Imperial Designs, Post-Colonial Realities: The Architecture and Legacy of Edwin Lutyens’s New Delhi

Advisor: Diana Gisolfi

Róisín Ward Regan

Mainie Jellett, Artist as Missionary: Melding Celtic and Christian Allusions through Modern art

Advisor: Agnes Berecz

Monet Alyssa Wolfe

A City and Its Resurrection: San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts and Regional Identity at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exhibition

Advisor: Anca I. Lasc

Lucia Gonzalez Molinar

Collaging Noise: Subversive Sound, Noise, and Music from Dada to Hip-Hop Sampling

Advisor: Agnes Berecz

Carlotta Assalto

Who Rewrites Dora Maar? Criticism, Institutions, and the Art Market in Constructing Artistic Legacy

Advisor: Agnes Berecz