Abby Berry, M.A.
Email: abb4@queensu.ca
Major Fields of Interest: Technical art history, image processing, and digital literacy in the arts
Undergraduate Experience: Queen's University, B.A. (Honours with Distinction) Major in Art History, Minor in Mathematics
Supervisor: Dr. Ron Spronk
Andrea Morgan, Ph.D.
Research Interests: Seventeenth-century Dutch art, Rembrandt's historical reception and historiography, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British art and theory, the history of collecting, and museum studies.
Undergraduate Experience: James Madison University, B.A. (honors) Art History, concentration in Museum Studies (2014)
Graduate Experience: Tufts University, M.A Art History (2016)
Dissertation Topic: "Collecting Rembrandt and Dutch Art and in Early Modern Britain"
Supervisor: Stephanie Dickey
Beth Knazook, Ph.D.
Email: 7emk2@queensu.ca
Major Fields of Interest: Nineteenth-century photography, photographically illustrated books, book history and print culture, photographic archives, conservation of photographs
Undergraduate Experience: University of Toronto, B.A. (Honours) Fine Art History, minor in Medieval Studies (2005)
Graduate Experience: Ryerson University and George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, M.A. Photographic Preservation and Collections Management (2007)
Supervisor: Dr. Joan M. Schwartz
Caylen Ferguson Heckel, Ph.D.
Major Fields of Interest: Renaissance European Art, cross-cultural contact, gender and sexuality
Undergraduate Experience: B.A. Honours, Art History, Queen's University (2010)
Graduate Experience: M.A. Art History, Queen's University (2013)
Supervisor: Dr. Una D'Elia and Dr. Stephanie Dickey
Daria Melkinov, M.A.
Email: daria.melnikov@queensu.ca
Major Fields of Interest: medieval art, artistic transmission, material and visual culture
Undergraduate Experience: H.B.A., University of Toronto, double-major Art History and German Studies (2018); Postgraduate Certificate, Georgian College of Applied Arts and Technology, Museum & Gallery Studies (2019)
Supervisor: Dr. Matthew Reeve
Eleanor Mackie, M.A.
Email: 111em14@queensu.ca
Major Fields of Interest:Medieval Art, Romanesque and Gothic France, Theology, Art of the Crusades, Pilgrimage, Martyrs and Saints, Relics and Reliquaries, Miracle Working Objects, Aesthetics of Light.
Undergraduate Experience: Queen's University, B.A. (Honours), Major in Art History, Minor in History (2016)
Supervisor: Dr. Matthew Reeve
Erica Chan, M.A.
Email: 11ec28@queensu.ca
Major Fields of Interest: Colonial Architecture in South East Asia, French Italian Baroque Architecture and paintings, French Rococo salon culture, Architectural Theory
Undergraduate Experience: Queen's University, B.A. (Honours), Major in Art History, Minor in History (2016); Queen's University, B.Ed, Intermediate Secondary Division (2017).
Supervisor: Dr. Gauvin A. Bailey
Sheilagh Quaile, Ph.D.
Email: 14sq@queensu.ca
Major Fields of Interest: Textiles, material culture, design, industry, labour, and globalisation during the long nineteenth century (c.1750 to 1914)
Undergraduate Experience: B.A. (Hons) with distinction – major in History, minors in Art History and Studio Art, University of Guelph (2014).
Graduate Experience: M.A. Art History, Queen’s University (2015). Thesis: “Wrapped in import: Kashmiri shawls in British paintings of the long nineteenth century.”
Thesis Title: “Paisley, Scotland’s nineteenth-century shawl designers: innovators or imitators?”
Supervisor: Professor Janice Helland