Exhibitions Department appoints two Post-Doctoral Associates

By jyc4@nyu.edu
09/04/2014

The exhibitions department is pleased to announce the appointment of two curatorial Post Doctoral Associates.

Curatorial Post-Doctoral Associate, 2014-2015

Roberta Casagrande-Kim holds a B.A. in Christian Archaeology from the Università degli Studi di Torino (Italy) and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Roman Art and Archaeology from Columbia University. She is a specialist in Roman funerary practices and beliefs in the Afterlife, Late Antique urbanism, and Greco-Roman mapping. She has worked extensively in archaeological excavations in Italy, Israel, and Turkey, and has served as the Assistant Field Director at the Amheida excavations (Egypt) since 2010. She is currently working on the publication of the pictorial graffiti of the basilica of Smyrna, Turkey, and of a bronze hoard from a domestic context at Amheida.  Dr. Casagrande-Kim was also the curator of one of ISAW's most popular exhibitions, Mapping and Measuring Space: Geographic Knowledge in Greco-Roman Antiquity, which was on view at ISAW in the fall of 2015.

This year, Dr. Casagrande-Kim's curatorial efforts will be focused on ISAW's fall exhibition When the Greeks Ruled Egypt: From Alexander to Cleopatra.

Curatorial Post-Doctoral Associate, 2014-2016

Jennifer Babcock specializes in ancient Egyptian art history and archaeology and received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.  From 2009-2011 she was the Hagop Kevorkian Curatorial Fellow in the Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she helped research cultural interactions between ancient Egypt and the Near East during the First Millennium BCE. Dr. Babcock has also worked in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’s Art of the Ancient World department and the Brooklyn Museum’s department of Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Middle Eastern Art. In 2011, she was a registrar for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s excavation at Senwosret III’s pyramid complex at Dahshur, Egypt.

Dr. Babcock will be providing research support for the Spring 2015 ISAW exhibition, From Ancient to Modern: Archaeology and Aesthetics.