Thanks to our graduating student workers!
The ISAW Library wishes to communicate its thanks and best wishes to our departing student workers, Lauren Close and Blake Coleman, as well as our past student workers Marlee Miller and Jessica Mingoia, all of whom are graduating this month from the Institute of Fine Arts.
Lauren Close, whose studies at the IFA focused on French art of the 18th and 19th centuries, joined the ISAW Library's student staff in summer 2015. She will be moving on to a position at David Tunick, Inc., a gallery specializing in drawings and prints, where she will complete a curatorial apprenticeship prior to taking on full-time curatorial duties for exhibitions in New York and abroad.
Blake Coleman, who studied the architecture of Crusader-era castles in the Levant, joined the Library's staff in Fall 2014. A professional archaeologist prior to beginning his studies at the IFA, he participated in the IFA's Aphrodisias excavation last summer, and is currently exploring several promising opportunities at American archaeological sites.
Marlee Miller, who was with the ISAW Library for the 2014-2015 academic year, will be continuing on to the PhD program at the IFA. Her studies focus on Classical archaeology, and her thesis concerned two Roman amphitheatres at Carnuntum and Aquincum. She also participated in the 2015 excavation at Aphrodisias.
Jessica Mingoia, who was also at the ISAW Library in the 2014-2015 academic year, studied Roman architecture, and wrote her thesis on the Praedia of Julia Felix, a luxury hospitality establishment in Pompeii. The Praedia was recently opened to the public, and Jess will be spending part of the summer at Pompeii. She hopes to enroll in a doctoral program next year.
Our four graduating student workers have been enormously helpful in the day-to-day operations of our library, and have enabled us to make great progress on larger-scale project as well. They are also fine colleagues, and we look forward to seeing where their careers take them. We wish them the best of luck!