Niharika Russell

PhD Student (she/her)
niharika.russell@mail.utoronto.ca

Campus

  • Downtown Toronto (St. George)

Fields of Study

  • Archaeology
  • Ancient

Areas of Interest

  • Ancient Greek art
  • Attic pottery
  • Sensory studies

Working Dissertation

Supervisors

SeungJung Kim

Biography

Niharika received her BFA in Painting & Drawing with a Minor in Classics from Concordia University in 2019, and her MA in Art History from the University of Toronto in 2020. She specializes in ancient art, with a particular focus on ancient Greek art and archaeology. Her primary research interests are examining multisensory interactive mechanics of both the subject matter and medium of Archaic and Classical Attic pottery, and developing methods for reading the sensorium of the Athenian symposion using critical frameworks developed in the field of sensory studies.

Selected Publications

Honours, Awards & Grants

  • 2024-2027 Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
  • 2022-2026 Jackman Junior Fellowship, Jackman Humanities Institute
  • 2023-2024 Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Government of Ontario

Education

MA, University of Toronto, Art History, 2020
BFA, Concordia University, Major Painting & Drawing, Minor in Classical Civilizations, 2019

Presentations

"Mind Over Matter? Damnatio Memoriae and Reconsidering the Relationship Between Heads and Bodies in Imperial Roman Statuary," Colloque d'Études Classiques du Québec à Montréal XV, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada, March 2023.
"The Temporal Other: Democracy, Time, and Athenian Identity in Fifth-Century Depictions of Persians," Montréal Inter-University Classics Colloquium XIII, Concordia University, Montréal, QC, Canada, March 2021.
"Interiors That Conform to Our Existence: Eileen Gray, Evelyn Wyld, Eyre de Lanux, and Sapphic Primitivism in Interwar Paris," 7th Annual Wollesen Memorial Graduate Symposium, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, March 2020.

Administrative Service

Unit 1 CUPE 3902 Steward, Department of Art History, 2023-present
Treasurer, Graduate Union of Students of Art, 2022-present

Cohort

  • 2022-2023