Kelin Michael Curriculum Vitae (updated March 2024) 508 S Serrano Ave, Apt 307, Los Angeles, CA, 90020, United States 269.552.8444, kelinmichael92@gmail.com Linked-In | Academia.edu | Twitter: @KelinMichael | Professional Website SUMMARY I am an emerging humanities professional pursuing museum and special collections work after recently completing my PhD in Art History at Emory University. My experience stems from positions at several types of institutions as well as from a strong research background rooted in my academic training at Oberlin College (B.A.) and Emory (M.A./PhD). I strive to create experiences, projects, and scholarship that engage diverse audiences and open eyes to connections they have not previously considered. EDUCATION 2023 Ph.D., Emory University, Atlanta, GA Major Field of Study: Medieval Art History, High Pass on Doctoral Examinations Minor field of study: Roman Art History Graduate Certificate: Medieval Studies Dissertation: “Word, Image, and Copy: The Reception of Hrabanus Maurus’s In honorem sanctae crucis, c.810-1600 CE” Advisor: Dr. Elizabeth Pastan 2017 M.A., Emory University, Atlanta, GA Field of Study: Medieval Art History Thesis: “The Effect of Location on the Function of the Genealogy of Christ Stained Glass Series of Canterbury Cathedral” Advisor: Dr. Elizabeth Pastan 2014 B.A. Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH Art History and French PUBLICATIONS TBA 2024 2024 2022 2019 Early Medieval History and Late Medieval History, Humanitas Series (TBA, Classical Academic Press), Art Director “Wonder and Fear in the Book of Marvels,” in The Book of the Marvels of the World: A Medieval Guide to the Globe (J. Paul Getty Museum, forthcoming 2024) (co-author with Elizabeth Morrison) “Reforming Hrabanus: Early Modern Iterations of In honorem sanctae crucis,” in Customised Books in Early Modern Europe and the Americas, 1400-1700 (Brill, 2024). “(Exhibition Report) Painted Prophecy: The Hebrew Bible through Christian Eyes,” in ICMA Newsletter (Summer 2022, no. 2), 29-31 “Style, Composition, and Subject Matter: Joseph Henry Sharp and the Influence of European Artistic Training,” in Capturing “The 2019 2019 2014 EXHIBITIONS 2024 2024 2024 2022 2020 2018/2019 True Spirit of the West”: The Life and Art of Joseph Henry Sharp, edited by Peter Hassrick. Twenty-five short essays for the Joseph Henry Sharp online catalogue of his works in public institutions (related to the Capturing “The True Spirit of the West”: The Life and Art of Joseph Henry Sharp publication). Exhibition catalogue for The Materiality of Devotion: From Manuscript to Print. Co-written by Dr. Sarah Bogue, Emma C. de Jong, and Kelin Michael. “Collection Highlight: Proposal for a Colossal Monument in the form of a Typewriter Eraser for Alcatraz Island by Claes Oldenburg,” Kalamazoo Institute of Arts: Sightlines, Winter 2014. To-be-Titled Exhibition on the Language of Visual Symbolism Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville, TNN Curator Marvels of the World: Wonder and Fear in the Middle Ages J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA Co-curator with Elizabeth Morrison Lumen: The Art and Science of Light J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA Project Manager for curators Kristen Collins and Nancy Turner Fantasy of the Middle Ages J. Paul Getty Museum and Google Arts and Culture Curator of the companion online exhibition (curator of the physical exhibition – Larisa Grollemond) Ornament in Flux: Personal Adornment and Prestige during the Migration Period Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, GA Curator The Materiality of Devotion: From Manuscript to Print Pitts Theology Library, Emory University, Atlanta, GA Co-Curator with Sarah Bogue and Emma de Jong MUSEUM/LIBRARY EXPERIENCE 2023-Present 2022-2023 2021-2022 Self-Employed Los Angeles, CA Currently: Freelance Curator for Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery and Art Director for Classical Academic Press’ Series Humanitas The J. Paul Getty Museum/Robert Half Los Angeles, CA Project Manager, Manuscripts Department The J. Paul Getty Museum Los Angeles, CA Graduate Curatorial Intern, Manuscripts Department 2020-2021 2016-2021 Summer 2018 Summer 2017 Summer 2016 Fall 2014 Summer 2013 Parsons Conservation Lab, Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, GA Digital Project Assistant Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, & Rare Book Library Emory University, Atlanta, GA Graduate Student Assistant, Research Services Whitney Western Art Museum Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, WY Research Assistant to Peter Hassrick, Senior Scholar and Director Emeritus Michael C. Carlos Museum Emory University, Atlanta, GA Education Intern Visual Resources Library Emory University, Atlanta, GA Visual Resources Assistant Kalamazoo Institute of Arts Kalamazoo, MI Curatorial and Education Intern SITE Santa Fe, A Contemporary Art Space Santa Fe, NM Events and Development Intern GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS/AWARDS 2021 Short-Term Fellowship The Newberry Library, Chicago, IL $3000 2020 Professional Development Support Funds (Research) Laney Graduate School, Emory University, Atlanta, GA $3000 2019 Andrew W. Mellon Graduate Fellowship in Object-Centered Curatorial Research Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, GA $10,500 2019 Professional Development Support Funds (Conference) Laney Graduate School, Emory University, Atlanta, GA $966 2019 Professional Development Support Funds (Research) Laney Graduate School, Emory University, Atlanta, GA $1132 2019 Samuel H. Kress Fellowship for German Middlebury Language Schools $10,000 2018 Mellon Humanities PhD Interventions Project For The Materiality of Devotion Exhibition Symposium $3000, Co-grant writer 2018 Laney Graduate School (Emory University), New Thinkers/New Leaders Program 2018 2010-2014 2010-2014 2010-2014 2010 CONFERENCES Papers Given 2023 2021 2021 2020 2020 (Accepted, but cancelled due to COVID-19) 2019 2019 2019 For The Materiality of Devotion Exhibition Symposium $2500, Co-grant writer Emory University’s Renaissance Centre Fund, The Newberry’s Centre for Renaissance Studies Consortium For Unlocking Medieval Primary Sources Workshop $550 Marion Stanfield Art Scholarship (4-time recipient) John Frederick Oberlin Scholarship (4-time recipient) Dorothy L. Downing Scholarship (4-time recipient) Ann N. MacGregor Art Scholarship 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo MI “Copying from the ‘Original’: Emperor Rudolf II, Hrabanus’s carmina figurata, and the Power of Legacy,” ICMA-sponsored session Lovis Corinth Colloquium XI: Customized Books in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1700 Emory University, Atlanta, GA “Reforming Hrabanus: Early Modern Iterations of In honorem sanctae crucis” 16th Annual Marco Manuscript Workshop: “Immaterial Culture” Online (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN) “Digitization, Funding, and (lack of) Travel: New Approaches to an Art Historical, Object-Based Dissertation during the COVID-19 Pandemic” Virtual International Medieval Congress, Leeds: Borders Online (University of Leeds, Leeds, UK) “Rigidity and Fluidity: Visual Interventions in the Transmission of Hrabanus Maurus’s In honorem sanctae crucis” 55th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Yale Medieval Colloquium Panel) Kalamazoo, MI “Altering a Narrative: Visual Interventions in Hrabanus Maurus’s In honorem sanctae crucis” 31st Southwest Art History Conference Taos, NM “Self-Referential Reflections and Vanitas: The Influence of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Still Life Painting in the Late Work of Joseph Henry Sharp” 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies Kalamazoo, MI “The Role of Hrabanus Maurus’s In honorem sanctae crucis in the Crisis of the Carolingian World” The Materiality of Devotion Symposium Emory University, Atlanta, GA “The Transition of Material: Hrabanus Maurus’s In honorem sanctae crucis as Manuscript and Printed Book” Conferences/Sessions Organized 2023 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies Kalamazoo, MI “The Visual and Literary Legacy of Hrabanus Maurus: Interdisciplinary Examinations” 2019 The Materiality of Devotion Symposium Emory University, Atlanta, GA Keynote Speaker: Lynley Herbert, The Walters Art Museum TEACHING EXPERIENCE Undergraduate Courses, Emory University 2021 Art History 102 (Teaching Assistant for Dr. Linda Merrill) 2020 Art History 101 (Teaching Assistant for Dr. Linda Merrill) 2020 Classical Mythology (Teaching Assistant for Dr. Katrina Dickson) 2018 Medieval Buildings (Co-taught with Dr. Elizabeth Pastan) 2017 Early Christian History (Teaching Assistant for Dr. Philip Reynolds) 2017 Art History 102 (Teaching Assistant for Dr. Linda Merrill) 2016 Art History 101 (Teaching Assistant for Dr. Linda Merrill) Undergraduate Courses, Oxford College, Emory 2021 Art History 102 (Teaching Assistant) 2020 Art History 101 (Teaching Assistant) Undergraduate Courses, Oberlin College 2014 French 102 (Teaching Assistant for Professor Matthew Senior) 2013 French 101 (Teaching Assistant for Professor Matthew Senior) INVITED TALKS 2024 2023 2021 2020 2020 Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery Lecture Series Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN “The Language of Visual Symbolism: Highlights from Vanderbilt’s Kress Collection” Global Baroque Art & The Digital Humanities, ARTHIST 259 Emory University, Atlanta, GA “Museum Work and Digital Humanities: How to Write Accessibly for a Wide Audience” Medieval Roundtable Series Emory University, Atlanta, GA “Creating Print from Manuscript: Pitts Theology Library’s HRAB 1503” Learning about Laney Mini-Symposium Emory University, Atlanta GA “Curatorial and Research Opportunities in Art History at Emory” Emory Art History’s Recruitment Graduate Symposium 2020 2019 2018 2018 Emory University, Atlanta, GA “Ornament in Flux: Objects of Migration Period Personal Adornment in the Michael C. Carlos Museum” AntiquiTEA Series Michael C. Carlos Museum, Atlanta GA “Discovering Contexts of Migration Period Personal Adornment” Bound with History Series Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University, Atlanta, GA “The Evolution of Alciato’s Emblem ‘Against Astrologers’” Medieval Roundtable Series Emory University, Atlanta, GA “At the Edge of Orthodoxy: Hrabanus Maurus’s In honorem sanctae crucis” Early Medieval Art: The Art of the Book, ARTHIST 213 Emory University, Atlanta, GA Guest Lecturer on Hrabanus Maurus’s In honorem sanctae crucis PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP 2022 “What Did the Middle Ages Sound Like?” J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, CA News & Stories Article and Spotify Playlist 2022 “Ethiopian Gospel Book—Getty Conversations” J. Paul Getty Museum and Smarthistory, Los Angeles, CA YouTube Interview 2020 “Introducing Ornament in Flux” Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, GA Instagram Video 2020 “Illuminating Medieval and Renaissance Materials at Rose Library” Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, & Rare Book Library, Emory University, Atlanta, GA Scholar Blog 2017 “Alciato’s Emblems” Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, & Rare Book Library, Emory University, Atlanta, GA Scholar Blog 2017 “Alfonso Chacón’s Comprehensive Documentation of Trajan’s Column” Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, & Rare Book Library, Emory University, Atlanta, GA Scholar Blog MEMBERSHIPS 2022-present 2021-present International Center of Medieval Art Member Association of Art Museum Curators Member 2017-present SERVICE 2021-2022 2021-2022 2019-2021 2019-2021 Fall 2020 2016-2018 2016 EXTRA TRAINING 2021 2020 2019 2019 2018 2015 Medieval Academy of America Member Graduate Intern Programming Committee J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, CA Graduate Intern Guide Committee J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, CA Graduate Student-Faculty Liaison Emory University, Atlanta, GA Medieval Studies Graduate Assistant Emory University, Atlanta GA Art History Online Course Development Intern Emory University, Atlanta, GA Graduate Art History Club Emory University, Atlanta, GA Treasurer Samothracian Networks, Sailing with the Gods: Argonauts and Samothracians in an Ancient Sea (online game) Emory University, Atlanta, GA Co-Illustrator of ancient Greek coins Digital Humanities and Premodern Studies: An Introduction Online (Newberry Library, Chicago, IL) Taught by Dr. Christopher Fletcher Strategy and the Arts: Leadership Workshop Series 2020-2021 Emory University, Atlanta, GA Taught by Professor Giacomo Negro and Dr. Michael Shapiro Middlebury Immersive Language School (German) Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 4.00 GPA, Stufe 1, Reached B1/B2 Proficiency Level Intensive Grant Writing Workshop Emory University, Atlanta, GA Beginning Grant Writing Workshop Emory University, Atlanta, GA Archives Research Training Certificate Emory University, Atlanta, GA RELATED PROFESSIONAL SKILLS English Native Language French Proficient Working Level (B2/C1): Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening Comprehension German Intermediate Working Level (B1): Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening Comprehension Latin Intermediate Working Level: Reading, Translating Italian Elementary Working Level (A1): Reading Spanish Elementary Working Level (A1): Reading, Writing, Speaking Proficiencies: Quire, Aeon, Omeka Classic, ArcGIS StoryMaps, MS Office Suite, Outlook, Photoshop, TMS, Adobe Illustrator, Cascade, Google Suite, Paleography, Canvas REFERENCES Upon Request