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Student
Symposium 2000
Institutionalizing Cultures
Bios of Symposium Organizers
Emily Rekow
Emily Rekow is a third year Ph.D. student at
the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her areas of concentration are African
and Native American Art, with a minor in 19th-century Photography.
After graduating from Oberlin College, she worked three years as
the Tour Programs Coordinator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis,
Minnesota. She is currently a Student Representative of the 2000-2001
Art History Executive Committee, and taking classes full-time. She
is also working with Professor George Corbin on an upcoming exhibition
at Lehman College entitled, "Contemporary Masks From the Kuba
Region of the Congo."
Angela Herren
Angela Herren has recently completed all coursework
and exams in the doctoral program at CUNY, graduate center. She
is majoring in precolumbian art history and her dissertation will
address Aztec migration history in two 16th century Mexican manuscripts,
the Codex Boturini and the Codex Azcatitlan. She has presented research
at various conferences and her article "Representing and Reinventing
Doña Marina: Images from the Florentine Codex and the Lienzo
de Tlaxcala" will appear in the fall issue of Latin American
Indian Literatures Journal. A Graduate Teaching Fellow, Angela
teaches modern art history at Lehman College.
Jennifer Wagalie
Jennifer Wagelie is a 4th year student in the
Ph.D. Program in Art History, majoring in Oceanic and minoring in
Pre-Columbian art. Her area of specialization is Maori art of New
Zealand. Ms. Wagelie currently works as a lecturer at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, where she gives public gallery tours of the Museum's
collections of Oceanic, African, and Pre-Columbian art. She also
has an internship at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, where she is assisting
in re-cataloging the Museum's collection of Oceanic art. Aside from
organizing the Student Symposium last year, Ms. Wagelie was also
on the Organizing Committee of the Alumni Symposium, which took
place last February.
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