Sophie Kerwin is a second-year PhD student specializing in the art and material culture of late medieval and early modern Europe. Her research focuses on bone and ivory carving examined through the lens of environmental history and ecology. She is also interested in methods and conceptions of serial and mechanical production in the period.
Prior to coming to Bard Graduate Center, she received her BA in Art History and English at Wellesley College and her MA in the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Her master’s thesis considered altarpieces produced by the Embriachi, a late fourteenth, early fifteenth-century Italian bone and ivory carving workshop, and issues of scale and reception. She has held curatorial internships and fellowships at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, the Frick Collection, and the Musée du Louvre. Most recently, she worked as a curatorial assistant at the Clark Art Institute and is currently a member of the Alexis Gregory Curatorial Practice Program at the Met.
Prior to coming to Bard Graduate Center, she received her BA in Art History and English at Wellesley College and her MA in the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Her master’s thesis considered altarpieces produced by the Embriachi, a late fourteenth, early fifteenth-century Italian bone and ivory carving workshop, and issues of scale and reception. She has held curatorial internships and fellowships at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, the Frick Collection, and the Musée du Louvre. Most recently, she worked as a curatorial assistant at the Clark Art Institute and is currently a member of the Alexis Gregory Curatorial Practice Program at the Met.
