After the difficulty I had with the Web of Science for the Citation Analysis Exercise, I was pleased that the first topic of interest I chose for the Network Analysis Exercise, “medievalism,” generated 482 results from the Web of Science. For this blog post, I will discuss two of the networks I created in VOSviewer […]
For this exercise, I was interested in data regarding gender and museum professions, and more specifically data that provide information on the percentage and professional distribution of women employed by art museums. I was hoping to find cross-national sources of data on the gender composition of art museum employees, but much of what I came […]
In our readings and conversations over the past week, I was most familiar with the notion that ideological biases inform the way that information is presented. As I mentioned at the close of my blog post for last week, I have been thinking about the presentation of information, informed by individual, social, and cultural biases, […]
In the readings for our first two overview weeks, I was most interested in the ways in which power and privilege both have structured and are evident in systems of classification and in representation and misrepresentation. For my response, I will consider the discussion of these themes in our readings by Safiya Umoja Noble and […]
I am a first-year doctoral student in the History of Art and Architecture department. My primary fields of study are medieval art and architecture, medievalism, and the history of collections. In my current research, I am interested in George Grey Barnard (1863–1938), who was an American sculptor and collector of medieval art. In considering Barnard […]