18th Annual Art History Symposium Student Research Paper Prize and Research Presentation
We ended the academic year in great spirit, showcasing some of our students’ ongoing art historical work through our annual prize competition for best research paper and best research presentation. Our students submitted entries that drew from their work in various art history courses, with fascinating subjects ranging from the role of images of women reading in American art in the suffrage movement, to a study of an Ohlone basket in SCU's de Saisset Museum collection, to the function of a 17th-century portrait of a Japanese samurai/diplomat in international papal politics.
We thank and congratulate all our undergraduate scholars who shared their hard work and contributed to this event. The faculty committee that reviewed submissions looks forward to seeing more of their efforts next year, alongside new participants and contributors, in this ongoing end-of-year competition.
An additional warm (virtual) applause for the prize winners noted below.
Best Art History Research Paper - First Prize: Riva Mikhlin ’25 (Economics) - Papal Politics and the Portrait of a Samurai: Hasekura Tsunenaga in Rome
Best Art History Research Paper - Second Prize: Katherine DeRitis ’24 (Art History) - Picturing the Unseen: The Sultanate of Women’s Influence on Renaissance Visual Culture
Best Art History Symposium Presentation: Riva Mikhlin ’25 (Economics) - Papal Politics and the Portrait of a Samurai: Hasekura Tsunenaga in Rome
Recognition for presenting at the Annual Art History Symposium at SCU: Riva Mikhlin ’25 (Economics) - Papal Politics and the Portrait of a Samurai: Hasekura Tsunenaga in Rome
C&I First-Year Research Accomplishment: Henry Gewecke ’27 (Business) - A Cumulative Examination of Item I-61 with Respect to the History of Basket Creation in Indigenous California
