Carl Knappett receives 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship

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St. George

Department of Art History

Faculty of Arts & Science

Guggenheim Fellowship

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Professor Carl Knappett (supplied image)

Carl Knappett, a professor in the department of art history in the Faculty of Arts & Science, has been awarded a 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship.

Presented by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation since 1925, the prestigious fellowships support mid-career professionals who have shown exceptional capacity as scholars or artists.

Knappett’s research concerns the character and organization of Bronze Age societies in the eastern Mediterranean as revealed through pottery production, exchange and use. Author of the book Aegean Bronze Age Art: Meaning in the Making, Knappett is currently directing fieldwork at Palaikastro on the island of Crete in Greece, and also conducts research on pottery from a variety of other Aegean sites.

“It is really invigorating to be recognized in this way, and to join such a cohort of scholars and artists,” said Knappett, who holds the Walter Graham/Homer Thompson Chair in Aegean Prehistory. “This fellowship will allow me to write my next book – on practices of containment. I will look at the fundamental role containers have played in humanity’s past, and how they continue to shape contemporary lifeways, in ways we often to choose to overlook or forget.”

“Working at the intersection of art, history and archaeology, Professor Knappett’s work continues to reveal the richness and complexity of material culture in the Aegean Bronze Age,” said Professor Melanie Woodin, dean of the Faculty of Arts & Science. “It is my honour to congratulate him on being named as a 2024 Guggenheim fellow.”

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Iakoiehwáhtha Patton named a Rhodes Scholar

Christopher.Sorensen — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 22:12:55 +0000

Iakoiehwáhtha Patton named a Rhodes Scholar

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Christopher.Sorensen Fri, 11/18/2022 - 17:12

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St. George

Faculty of Arts & Science

Victoria College

Rhodes Scholar

Department of Art History

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Iakoiehwáhtha Patton, an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto who also goes by Ioka, has received a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford University.

The fourth-year student in the Faculty of Arts & Science and member of Victoria College is one of 11 Canadian recipients of the prestigious scholarship program this year.

A member of the Kanien'kehá:ka First Nations community, Patton says her identity as an Indigenous woman has informed her studies in art history, anthropology and Renaissance studies.

“I didn’t have Indigenous academic role models so I really had to pave my own path,” she told her college. “If I can help to create structures and pathways for other Indigenous women in academia, that would make me feel very happy.”

Patton is the president of U of T’s History of Art Students' Association, and a research assistant to Reid Locklin, an associate professor in the department for the study of religion, writing about the intersections of art history, Christianity, coloniality and Indigeneity for the online resource Teaching and Learning as Treaty Peoples.

Patton says she plans to study the depiction of North American Indigenous peoples in Netherlandish art when she goes to Oxford next year, where the costs of her degree will be covered by the Rhodes Scholarship.

“This achievement would be extraordinary for any student, but I think that it’s even more inspiring since Patton began her academic journey at Vic just before the pandemic started,” said Professor Rhonda McEwen, president and vice-chancellor of Victoria University in the University of Toronto.

“Within a few short months, she had to return to her community and learn remotely like so many other students. Patton overcame every obstacle and never missed the opportunity to contribute to the community at Vic and U of T.”

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Carl Knappett receives 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship

Iakoiehwáhtha Patton named a Rhodes Scholar

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