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Learn about the faculty, staff and students at the Collaboratory.

Faculty

Christian Cloke

Associate Director of Michelle Smith Collaboratory for Visual Culture, Art History and Archaeology
Classics

4205B Parren J. Mitchell Art-Sociology Building
College Park MD, 20742

(301) 405-7951

Quint Gregory

Director, Michelle Smith Collaboratory for Visual Culture, Art History and Archaeology

4213D Parren J. Mitchell Art-Sociology Building
College Park MD, 20742

(301) 405-3183

Graduate Assistants

Katie Altizer

PhD, Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Art, Art History and Archaeology

Laura Brady

MA, Twentieth-Century Modernism, Art History and Archaeology

Caroline Paganussi

PhD, Italian Renaissance Art, Art History and Archaeology

Lillian Wies

PhD, Modern Japanese Art, Art History and Archaeology

Undergraduate Assistants

Marissa Fischer '19 art history (Fall 2019 Intern)

Marissa is a senior Art History major with special interests in seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art, as well as Digital Art History. Marissa plans to attend graduate school following the Fall 2019 semester to complete a Master's degree in Library Sciences.

Audrey Tarn '20 computer science (Fall 2019 Intern)

Audrey Tarn is a senior majoring in Computer Science and is currently in the process of adding an Art History major. She likes to apply her computer skills to other disciplines, some light-hearted and others less so, and enjoys staring at old Dutch and Flemish art. When not playing video games or mulling over existential thoughts, she is probably drawing comics or creating video games.

Digital Innovation Group Alumni

Former Undergraduate and Graduate Assistants

Josh Batugo, Undergraduate Intern, Spring 2019

Elle Breden, Undergraduate Intern, Summer 2019
Double Major Art History and Archaeology; Studio Art, University of Maryland (B.A. expected 2020)

Sarah Mellott Cadagin, Graduate Assistant, Publications & Publicity, Academic Year 2012-2013
Ph.D. Candidate, Italian Renaissance Art

Amanda Chen, Graduate Assistant, Digital Humanities, Fall 2017

Lindsay Dupertuis, Graduate Assistant, Digital Humanities, Spring and Fall 2013, Spring and Fall 2016, Academic Year 2017-2018
Ph.D. Student, Italian Renaissance

Sarah Frances Evans, Graduate Assistant, Digital Humanities, 2016-2017
BA, University of Cincinnati

Charline Fournier Petit, Graduate Assistant, Digital Humanities, Academic Year 2018-2019

Madeline Gent, Graduate Assistant, Digital Humanities, Spring and Summer 2013
Ph.D. Student, Chinese Art

Kari Gillman, Undergraduate Intern, Spring 2019

Molly Harrington, Graduate Assistant, Digital Humanities, Spring 2013, Spring 2017
Ph.D. Candidate, Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Art

Kristi Jamrisko, Graduate Assistant, Digital Humanities, Academic Year 2013-2014, Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Spring 2016
Ph.D. Student, Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Art

Matthew Lincoln, Graduate Assistant, Digital Humanities, Spring and Summer 2013
Ph.D. (University of Maryland 2016), Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Art

Valentina Mazzotti, Graduate Assistant, Digital Humanities, Academic Year 2014-2015
Ph.D. student, Japanese Art

Kishan Mistry, Graduate Assistant, Digital Humanities, Spring 2013
MA Student, Nineteenth-Century Art

Vianna Newman, Graduate Assistant, Digital Humanities, Spring 2019
BA, Indiana University

Melanie Woody Nguyen, Graduate Assistant, Digital Humanities, Spring 2019

Danielle O'Steen, Graduate Assistant, Digital Humanities, Academic Year 2015-2016

Patricia Ortega-Miranda, Graduate Assistant, Digital Humanities, Academic Year 2017-2018; 2018-2019
M.A., University of Texas-Austin

Jennifer Plyler, Graduate Assistant, Digital Humanities, Academic Year 2012-2013

Nicole Riesenberger, Graduate Assistant in Digital Art History and Visual Culture, 2014-2016
Ph.D. (University of Maryland, 2016)

Hannah Schockmel, Graduate Assistant in Digital Art History and Visual Culture, 2014-2015, Fall 2016
B.A., Cornell University

Tyler Shine, Graduate Assistant, Digital Humanities, Fall 2013
MA Student, Contemporary Art & Theory

Alison Singer, Graduate Assistant, Digital Humanities, Spring 2015
Ph.D. Student, American Art

Edel Spencer, Graduate Assistant in Digital Art History and Visual Culture, 2016-2018
B.S., University of Maryland

Sarah-Leah Thompson, Undergraduate Intern, Spring 2019

Cecilia Wichmann, Graduate Assistant, Digital Humanities, Fall 2013 & Academic Year 2014-2015
M.A. Student, Contemporary Art & Theory

Grace Yasumura, Graduate Assistant, Digital Humanities, Spring 2014, Fall 2014
Ph.D. student, Early-Twentieth Century Central and Eastern European Modernism

Jingmin Zhang, Graduate Assistant, Digital Humanities, Academic Year 2012-2013
Ph.D., University of Maryland (2014)