Alexis Diane Slater, M.A.
Vita
- Spring 2026 (expected) | Johns Hopkins University, Ph.D., History of Art. Major field advisor, Mitchell B. Merback; Minor field advisor, Ünver Rüstem
- May 2019 | The University of Texas at Austin, M.A., Art History. Master’s thesis: “Mayken Verhulst: A Professional Woman Painter and Print Publisher in the Sixteenth-Century Low Countries”. First Reader: Jeffrey Chipps Smith; Second Reader: Joan A. Holladay
- May 2016 | Wake Forest University, B.A., History and Art History with departmental honors summa cum laude. Art History thesis: “Partnership and Agency in the Patronage of the Ghent Altarpiece” History thesis: “Alexander the Great and the Burning of the Palace at Persepolis”
Fellowships and Awards
- October 2024 (upcoming) | Tucher Fellowship, Tucher’sche Kulturstiftung and the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg
- August 2023 | One-Year Research Fellowship, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst (DAAD)
- November 2022 | Early Dissertation Research Fund, Department of the History of Art, Johns Hopkins
- Summer 2022 | Weiss Travel/Research Fellowship, Department of the History of Art, Johns Hopkins University
- January 2019 | Kimbell Art Foundation Graduate Research and Travel Fund, College of Fine Arts, University of Texas at Austin
- Summer 2018 | United States Department of Education Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS), Center for European Studies, University of Texas at Austin
- August 2017 | David Bruton Jr. Endowment for Graduate Fellowships in the College of Fine Arts, University of Texas at Austin
- May 2015 | Lynne Johnson Travel Award, Department of Art, Wake Forest University
Academic Experience and Departmental Service
- September 2022—August | 2023 Graduate Representative/Liaison to the Faculty—Department of the History of Art, Johns Hopkins University
- August 2020—May 2023 | Teaching Assistant—Department of the History of Art, Johns Hopkins University
- August 2020—May 2021 | Co-chair, The Department of the History of Art Lecture Series—Department of the History of Art, Johns Hopkins University
- August 2019—May 2020 | History of Art Representative—Graduate Representative Organization, Johns Hopkins University
- January—May 2019 | Teaching Assistant —Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Austin
- August—December 2018 | Graduate Research Assistant to Dr. Jeffrey Chipps Smith—Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Austin
- August 2017—May 2019 | Grader—Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Austin
Conferences, Presentations, and Workshops
- March 2023 | “Playing Peasant: The Social Hermeneutics of the Codpiece in Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s Detroit Wedding Dance,” Graduate Student Symposium, Department of the History of Art, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD
- June 2022 | “Collaboration and Autonomy: Mayken Verhulst and Book Printing in Sixteenth-
Century Antwerp,” part of the panel “Women in the Shadow: Participation of the Early Modern Art Market of Early Modern Northern Art,” Historians of Netherlandish Art Conference 2022, Amsterdam and the Hague, Netherlands - May 2022 | “Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: The Cartographic Imaginary of the Habsburg/Ottoman Border, 1529-1683,” Making Space, Myers Graduate Student Symposium, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
December 2021 | “Graduate Seminar, Early Netherlandish Drawings: Themes and Problems,” Morgan Drawing Institute, New York, NY - November 2019 | Penn-PMA Mellon Object-Based Learning Workshop, “Fashioning Defense: Armor, Body, and Self in the Early Modern World,” Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
- November 2018 and February 2019 | Musea Brugge Research School, Flemish Research Centre for the Arts in the Burgundian Netherlands and Musea Brugge, Bruges, Belgium
- October 2018 | “Ad Opus Regine: Eleanor of Provence’s Antioch Chamber and Family Memory of the Crusades,” Texas Medieval Association Conference, Texas Tech, Lubbock, TX