Faculty Editor: Alexander Nagel is Professor of Fine Arts at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. His most recent book, co-authored with Elizabeth Horodowich, is Amerasia (Zone Books, 2023).
Student Editor: Christine Bootes is a doctoral student at the Institute of Fine Arts focusing on modern and contemporary art. Her research interests include the intersection of art, architecture, and globalization; lens-based media; and the history of institutions. Prior to entering the doctoral program, Christine was based in Sydney, Australia, where she held a curatorial role working between art and architecture on some of the city’s most significant public art commissions. She earned her MA in Art History (summa cum laude) from Université Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne and has received support from the DAAD and the NYU Provost’s Global Research Initiatives.
Student Editor: Claire Davis is a second-year Master’s student at the Institute of Fine Arts, focusing on Ancient Roman Art. Before attending the IFA, she worked at the Smithsonian Associates, the National Geographic Museum, and was a curatorial intern at the Saint Louis Art Museum. She has an undergraduate degree from the George Washington University, where she majored in Classical Studies and held internships at the Smithsonian Portrait Gallery, the Smithsonian Associates, and the George Washington University Museum / The Textile Museum. Her research interests explore the ancient viewer’s experience of Roman visual and material culture, as well its re-use and reception through time.
Student Editor: Maria Olivia Davalos Stanton is a third year art conservation student at the Institute of Fine Arts’ Conservation Center specializing in objects conservation with a passion for ancient materials and Indigenous cultural heritage. They have an undergraduate degree from Stanford, majoring in classics with a minor in chemistry. They have interned in objects conservation labs at the J Paul Getty Museum and the Midwest Art Conservation Center, a private painting conservation studio, worked at a production handmade papermill in the midwest, and completed a treatment at NYU’s own Villa la Pietra. Maria Olivia strives to foster decolonized methodologies within the field of conservation informed by their own multicultural, bilingual identity.
Student Editor: Noah Margulis is a PhD student at the Institute of Fine Arts, studying the visual arts of early modern Southern Europe. Noah completed his B.A. at Oberlin College and his M.A. at the Courtauld Institute of Art. In addition to his studies, he has held research and editorial positions at Christie’s, the Morgan Library & Museum, the Frick Collection, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His current research addresses print culture and the history of the book, reception theory and collecting practices, and the environmental humanities.
Managing Editor: Jason Varone is an artist and designer based in both the Berkshires and New York City. He has been the Web & Electronic Media Manager at the Institute of Fine Arts since 2008. Examples of his artwork can be found at varonearts.com Please contact him with any administrative matters concerning Lapis at jason.varone@nyu.edu.
Former Editors
Student Editor: Ariela Algaze was an MA Fellow at the Institute of Fine Arts. Her current research explores the relationship between art and drama in the fourteenth and fifteenth century by looking at the performative uses of sculptures of Christ with articulated joints as props in Passion Plays. Before coming to the Institute, she was a Stanford University Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow, and has held internships at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the National Portrait Gallery. Her article, “The Artistic Program of the Baptistery of San Giovanni in Dante’s Liturgical Imagination” appeared in Forum Italicum’s Dante at 700 issue in 2021.
Student Editor: Sophia Bevacqua (2021-2021) was a MA Candidate and Klesch Collection Fellow at the Institute of Fine Arts specializing in fifteenth-century Italian painting and drawing. Her research examines frescoed map cycles and schizzi drawings, as well as the Lucretian Renaissance, the role of fifteenth-century visual culture in navigating human-animal relations, and artistic intersections between India and Italy. She recently concluded a two-year fellowship at the Vatican Museums in which she worked on Bramante’s Cortile della Pigna and the panel paintings of Carlo Crivelli, and she holds a BA in Art History and Gender Studies from the University of Notre Dame.
Student Editor: Juan Gabriel Ramírez Bolívar (2018 – 2020) is a PhD student in Art History at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. He focuses on Modern Latin American Art and artistic exchanges between Latin America and Europe. His master’s thesis explores the artistic production of the Colombian artist Marco Tobón Mejía during his residence in France. Born in Bogotá, Colombia, Juan Gabriel received his B.A. in History at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. In 2013, he obtained an Erasmus Mundus Scholarship to study at the master’s program in Comparative History at the Charles University in Prague and Social Sciences at the École des Hautes Études des Sciences Sociales in Paris. At the Institute, he participates in the organization of events related to Latin American Art, such as South and About, and The Latin American Forum.
Student Editor: Sarah Cohen (2018 – 2019) is currently a PhD student at Columbia University, specializing in Italo-Byzantine art and architectural history from Late Antiquity through the Early Medieval period, and is particularly interested in visuality and spatial experience. Supervised by Professors Robert Maxwell and Thelma Thomas, her MA Thesis constitutes a critical re-examination of three monumental depictions of the Last Judgement – the eleventh-century mosaic at Santa Maria Assunta, Torcello, and the fourteenth-century frescos of the Chora Parekklesion and Padua’s Arena Chapel – to explore the role of compositional arrangement, symbolic nuance, and the efficacy of medium in facilitating unique temporalities within a shared Biblical narrative.
Student Editor : Tara Sami Dutt (2020 – 2021)
Student Editor : Miray Eroglu (2020 – 2021) holds a MA in Art History and Archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts, where she wrote her thesis on depictions of couples in late 17th-18th century Ottoman bazaar paintings. She holds a B.A. from McGill University and has held internships in Istanbul, Montreal and New York at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the Islamic Art Department.
Student Editor : Francesca Ferrari (2012 – 2021) holds a PhD from the the IFA and an MA in Art History from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in Art History and English from the Université de Lausanne. Her research focuses on twentieth-century European and Latin American art. Her dissertation, tentatively titled “Animated Geometries: Abstraction and the Body in the Work of Paul Klee, Sophie Taeuber, Joaquín Torres-García, and Alexandra Exter,” explores the convergence of geometric abstraction, the human body, and movement on a transnational scale during the 1920s. Francesca has published in several graduate art history journals, as well as Afterimage and the Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin. She is the 2020/2021 Mellon-Marron Research Consortium Fellow in the department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art.
Student Editor : Adrienne Gendron (2019 – 2021) is a graduate at the Institute’s Conservation Center specializing in objects conservation with a particular interest in organic materials. She holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Delaware with majors in art conservation and anthropology and minors in chemistry and art history. Before coming to the IFA, Adrienne worked with a wide range of collections at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History and National Museum of the American Indian, the National Park Service, and the American Museum of Natural History, and did fieldwork in Turkey and Italy. As an IFA student, she has participated in projects at NYU’s Villa La Pietra in Florence and completed an internship at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology. She is thrilled to be a member of the Lapis editorial board.
Student Editor : Robin Joyce (2020 – 2021) was a PhD candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. His dissertation considers printmaking, muralism, and communications media in the United States in the 1930s. Robin has worked in the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Museum of Modern Art, New York and interned at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, International Print Center New York, and the Morgan Library and Museum. His previous fellowships include the Hauser & Wirth Institute Predoctoral Archival Research Fellowship (2019). He received his BA from Georgetown University (2015) and his MA (2017) and MPhil (2019) from the Institute.
Student Editor : Emma Kimmel (2018 – 2021) is a graduate of the Institute’s Conservation Center specializing in paintings conservation. She received her BA from Oberlin College in Art History with a minor in English Literature. At the IFA she has been involved in several conservation projects including treatments at NYU’s Villa La Pietra in Florence and the Samothrace Archaeological Excavations in Greece. She has also held internships at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, and several private practices. She is spending her final year of coursework interning at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Student Editor: Kolleen Ku (2018 – 2019) specializes in global modernism and contemporary art. Originally from Hong Kong, she received her B.A. in Art History and English from Columbia University and her M.A. from the Institute of Fine Arts. She has held internships at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Guggenheim Museum, David Zwirner, and Cheim & Read. Her research interests include transcultural artistic exchanges, abstraction, and twentieth-century movements in Eastern Europe and East Asia.
Student Editor: Kristie Lui (2020 – 2021) was a second year Master’s student at the Institute of Fine Arts.
Student Editor: Kelly Ryser was Master’s student at the Institute of Fine Arts specializing in late antique, Byzantine, and medieval art and architecture, mainly around the Mediterranean but also into Western Asia and Northern Europe. Kelly is interested in matters of education and exchange, urbanism and visibility/access to material culture, and contextualizing art within the trade networks of the Middle Ages. They hold an undergraduate degree from New York University with majors in Art History and Urban Design and Architecture Studies and a minor in Sustainable Urban Environments.
Student Editor: Peter Anthony Thompson (2020 – 2021) is a PhD student at the Institute of Fine Arts having previously received his BA in Classical Archaeology & Ancient History and MPhil in Classical Archaeology from the University of Oxford. His primary focus is on the art and archaeology of Archaic and Classical Greece, especially the phenomenon of artistic retrospectivism in the creation and development of cultural identities, and he is also interested in the modern presentation and reception of archaeological ideas in museums and popular media. Peter has worked on archaeological excavations in the UK, Spain, and Turkey, as well as undertaking curatorial and archival roles at the Ashmolean Museum, the Pitt Rivers Museum, and the British School at Athens.
Student Editor: Jade Chuyu Xiong (2023-2024) was a Master’s student at the Institute of Fine Arts. Her research focuses on late imperial Chinese material culture, with a special interest in the transcultural artistic exchange related to the Canton trade. She received her BS degree in Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU, with minors in Urban Design and Architecture Studies and Film Production. She also holds an MFA degree in Experimental and Documentary Arts at Duke University. Before coming to the IFA, she worked as a curatorial intern in Guangdong Museum’s 2022 exhibition on calligraphy and painting of Song and Yuan dynasties.
