Research Forum
Fellows
Research Forum Postdoctoral Fellow
2011
(Research Activities Coordinator)
Jim Harris completed his PhD, Donatello's Polychromed Sculpture: Case Sudies in Materials and Meaning, at the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2010 under the supervision of Professor Patricia Rubin. He is currently working on a series of articles based on the three principal objects of his thesis; Donatello's Bardi Crucifix, Cavalcanti Annunciation and Padua Entombment. Jim's ongoing research concerns sculptural polychromy as a record of the traumatic events of the English 'Long Reformation'. He is also a Visiting Lecturer at the Courtauld and has taught at King's, Birkbeck and the IGRS.
Research Forum Postdoctoral Fellow (Mellon M.A.) 2011-12
Monia Abdallah
Monia Abdallah received her doctorate from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris in December 2009 with a dissertation entitled Constructing the Continuous Progress of the Past: an inquiry into the notion of ‘Contemporary Islamic Art’ (1970-2009). Before coming to the Courtauld, she was Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto and the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) . Over the course of 2011-12, in addition to pursuing her own research, Dr Abdallah will be teaching a BA course and working with Professors Mignon Nixon and Juliet Mitchell on the Research Forum/Mellon Foundation M.A. course, which this year is: Art And Psychoanalysis: Fifty Years Of War In The Time Of Peace, 1960-2010.
terra foundation for american art teaching fellow, 2011-12
Elisa Schaar
Elisa Schaar received her BA in Philosophy from Harvard University (2004) and her MSt and DPhil in Art History from Oxford University (2005 and 2010). Before coming to the Courtauld Institute, she was Visiting Lecturer at the University of Warwick in the academic year 2010-2011. At the Courtauld, she will teach a BA third-year special option course on pop and the contested status of mass culture. On the topic of American art and the mass media, she will also co-organise an international Terra Foundation symposium to take place at the Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA) in Paris in the spring of 2012. Elisa is currently working on two projects for publication, a revisionist narrative of appropriation art that takes into account the legacy of pop and a study of Sturtevant’s multifaceted practice of repetition. Her article ‘Spinoza in Vegas, Sturtevant Everywhere: A Case of Critical (Re-)Discoveries and Artistic Self-Reinventions’ appeared in Art History in December 2010. A forthcoming research project will explore sound and the durational experience in art since the 1960s.
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow 2009-2012
Klara Kemp-Welch has a BA in French and History of Art from University College London (2000), an MA in Russian and East European Literature and Culture from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies in London (2002), and a PhD in the History of Art from University College London (2008). Her doctoral thesis, Figures of Reticence: Action and Event in East-Central European Conceptualism 1965-1989, was supervised by Professor Briony Fer. She has worked as Curatorial Assistant at the Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw (2000-01), Teaching Assistant and then Teaching Fellow at University College London, and subsequently as Associate Lecturer at the University of the Arts (Camberwell), The University of York, and Birkbeck. In 2009 she was awarded a three year post-doctoral Early Career Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust, held at the Courtauld Institute.
Social Sciences and humanities research council of canada fellow
Sarah Guérin
Sarah Guérin received her PhD from the University of Toronto in July 2009 for a dissertation entitled ‘Tears of Compunction’: French Gothic Ivories in Devotional Practice. Prior to arriving at the Courtauld, she was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, and also held the Hanns Swarzenski and Brigitte Horney Swarzenski
Fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. An expert in medieval ivories and associated with the Gothic Ivories Project, Sarah’s publications have appeared in the Journal of Medieval History and West 86th. While at the Courtauld, in addition to teaching courses on medieval art, Sarah is working on a number of projects, including a book manuscript entitled Ivory Palaces: Gothic Sculptures at Church and Court and a catalogue for the Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon.