2024 Claudia Rattazzi Papka Memorial Fund Grant Recipients

For Conference and Research Travel

Sunmin Cha (Ph.D Candidate Art History & Archaeology)
"Materiality, Artistry, and Money: Reimagining Merchants and Occupational Portraiture in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp" at the Historians of Netherlandish Art Conference (Cambridge & London, United Kingdom)

Caroline Chang (M.A. Candidate Art History & Archaeology)
Research in Siena, Italy

Claire Dillon (Ph.D. Candidate Art History & Archaeology)
“A Global Mediterranean? Tracing the fragmented histories of silk in medieval Sicily” at the MAA Annual Meeting (South Bend, IN)

Evyan Gainey (Ph.D. Candidate English & Comparative Literature)
“Blood on the Tracks: Disability and the Repertoire in Early Modern Drama” at the Modern Language Association Conference (Philadelphia, PA)

Katherine Gobel (Ph.D. Candidate Art History & Archaeology)
“Bruegel’s Children: The Whitsun Bride in Netherlandish Art” at the Sixteenth Century Society Conference (Baltimore, MD)

Isabella Gold (Ph.D. Candidate Art History & Archaeology)
“Order and Disorder in Bourbon New Spain: Food, Drink, and Tobacco in Casta Painting” at the Renaissance Society of America Conference (Chicago, IL)

Alana Kilcoyne (Ph.D. Candidate English & Comparative Literature)
Participant in 2024 Manuscript and Archives Seminar in Provins, France

Whitney Kite (Ph.D. Candidate Art History & Archaeology)
“Disappearing Evidence: Uncovering the History of a Monastery in Peril” at the International Medieval Congress (Leeds, United Kingdom)

Louis Moffa (Ph.D. Candidate in Italian/Comparative Literature)
“Observe, Hypothesize, and Imagine Dante’s Astronomy: A Model for Epistemic Development and World-Building from the Convivio to the Commedia” at the International Conference of Three Societies on Literature and Science (Birmingham, United Kingdom)

Stephanie Reitzig (Ph.D. Candidate in History)
Participant in 2024 Manuscript and Archives Seminar in Provins, France

Juan Camilo Rojas Gomez (Ph.D. Candidate Latin American & Iberian Cultures)
“Christian Frameworks Traveling West: Early-Modern Ekphrastic Idolatries on the Americas and the Far East” at the American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting (Montreal, Canada)

Elizabeth Wickersham (M.A. Candidate in Art History & Archaeology)
Participant in 2024 Manuscript and Archives Seminar in Provins, France