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Visual Studies welcomes Branko Mitrovic, Visiting Scholar

Visual Studies welcomes Branko Mitrovic, Professor of Architectural History and Theory from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway, as Visiting Scholar in the Visual Studies Program at Penn.

Matt Freedman wins Perkins Distinguished Graduate Teaching Award

Matt Freedman, lecturer in fine arts and visual studies, is a sculptor, graphic artist, performer, writer and curator with a background in cartooning and anthropology. His current work explores the consequences when DIY versions of modern spectacles revive half-remembered cultural myths.

Visual Studies students awarded 2019 summer research grants

This summer, the Visual Studies program has awarded two independent research projects and four on-campus internships to Visual Studies majors. 

Derek Rodenbeck ('20) is traveling to Japan to photograph and learn traditional woodblock printing. Pablo Borra-Paley ('20) is studying representational and non-representationsl visual sports training environments in VR. 

Visual Studies Welcomes New Faculty Member, Gregory Vershbow

Gregory Vershbow joins Visual Studies as an instructor and post-doc. An artist working at the intersection of photography, science, and history, Vershbow received his MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and taught most recently at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Tawrin Baker to be Visual Studies’ first post-doctoral fellow

Tawrin Baker PhD, a specialist in the early modern history of science and medicine, has been named the first post-doctoral fellow of the Visual Studies program. Dr. Baker completed his dissertation at Indiana University in 2014: “Color, Cosmos, Oculus: Vision, Color, and the Eye in Jacopo Zabarella and Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente” (2014).