Sproule, Peter

Peter is smilling at the camera.

Peter Sproule

Ph.D. Candidate

Art History Program

Major Fields of Interest: Twentieth-century visual culture; art and design in the German-speaking world; fashion studies; material culture; illustration studies.
Undergraduate Experience: Carthage College, BA, majors: German and Studio Art, minor: Art History (2016)
Graduate Experience: University of Toronto, MA, Art History (2020)
PhD thesis: â€œMasculine Fashion Culture in Post-war Germany: Reconstructing the Ideal Man through Illustrationâ€
Supervisor: Dr. Allison Morehead and Dr. Elizabeth Otto (University at Buffalo)

Hume, Natalie

Natalie Hume, Ph.D.

Natalie Hume

Ph.D. Candidate

Art History Program

Major Fields of Interest: Symbolism, Expressionism, Modernism, 19th century print culture and postermania, avant-gardism, and curatorial practice. 
Undergraduate Experience: â€¯B.A. Art History, University of Calgary.
Graduate Experience: â€¯M.A. Art History, University of Toronto.
Dissertation Topic: Visual Representations of Eschatological Fears and Millenarian Anxieties in Europe and North America from the late 19th to the early 20th century.
Supervisor: Dr. Allison Morehead

Asimakis, Magdalyn

Magdalyn Asimakis, Ph.D. Candidate

Magdalyn Asimakis

Ph.D. Candidate

Art History Program

Major Fields of Interest: global modernisms, feminisms, curatorial practice, institutional critique, print culture.
Undergraduate Experience: University of Toronto, B.A. (Honours), Major in Art History, Major in History (2007)
Graduate Experience: University of Victoria, M.A., Art History (2010)
Supervisor: Dr. Allison Morehead

Ryan, Laura

Laura Ryan, Ph.D. Candidate

Laura Ryan

Ph.D. Candidate

Art History Program

Major Fields of Interest: Primitivism, turn-of-the century French modernism, and issues of identity, self-fashioning, transnationalism, and feminism.
Undergraduate Experience: Towson University, B.A. in Art History. Thesis entitled "Symbolic Judgment: An Iconological Analysis of James Ensor’s The Seven Deadly Sins Print Series."
Graduate Experience: American University, M.A. in Art History. Thesis entitled "Subverting Orientalism and Primitivism? Sonia Delaunay's Yellow Nude, 1908."
Supervisor: Dr. Allison Morehead

Darvin, Hannah

Hannah Darvin, Ph.D. Candidate

Hannah Darvin

Ph.D. Candidate

Art History Program

Major Fields of Interest: Luke Fildes; doctor-patient relationship; nineteenth-century British Art; Victorian visual culture; histories of nineteenth-century medicine; medical humanities

Undergraduate Experience: B.A. Honours, major in Art History with a minor in Political Studies (2009), ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥.

Graduate Experience: M.A. Fine and Decorative Art (2011), Sotheby's Institute of Art, London, UK; M.A. Art History (2010), University of Toronto.

Dissertation Title: Sentimentalizing Medicine: Luke Fildes’s The Doctor (1891) and the Idealized Image of the Physician-Patient Relationship

Supervisor: Dr. Allison Morehead

Tennant, El

Tennant, El

El Tennant

Ph.D. Candidate

Art History Program

Major Fields of Interest: The illicit art market; archaeological looting; cultural heritage restitution; memory and identity.

Undergraduate Experience: University of Waterloo, B.A. (Honours) in Classics (2017)

Graduate Experience: University of Waterloo, M.A. in Classics (2019)

PhD Thesis Title: The Memory of Loss: Identity Formation as Influenced by Cultural Heritage Looting in Italy from Antiquity to Present Day

Supervisor: Dr. Cathleen Hoeniger 

Burton, Drew

Drew Burton, Ph.D. Candidate

Drew Burton

Ph.D. Candidate

Art History Program

Major Fields of Interest: Modern and contemporary art; censorships; culture wars; public arts funding; queer theory and history; institutional critique; pedagogy.
Undergraduate Experience: B.A. Honours in Art History and History, Queen’s University, 2017.
Graduate Experience: M.A. in Art History, ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ (2019). MRP: "Art's Bad Body: The Scandalization of Egon Schiele"
PhD Topic: (De)Queering Art in America: Examining the Guiding Forces Behind Censorship Campaigns, 1980-present.
Supervisor: Dr. Jen Kennedy