Two Mellon Postdocs in 2008-09

The Penn Humanities Forum will host two outstanding art history scholars as
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows in 2008-2009.

Dr. Paroma Chatterjee received her Ph.D at the University of Chicago, writing a
dissertation on narrative icons in Byzantium and Italy. She has been a visiting
assistant professor at the University of Florida. At Penn, she will continue her
research on Byzantine religious art. Dr. Chatterjee will teach a freshman seminar
in the fall on the depiction of saints in medieval art, and she will offer a 300-level
seminar in the spring.

Dr. Christina Codgell, assistant professor at the College of Santa Fe, wrote her
doctoral dissertation at the University of Texas on the relationship between
modern design the cultural and medical theory of eugenics. This was published
as Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s. Her research now
focuses on the influence on contemporary architectural design of eugenics and
related notions about genetics and evolution. In the fall, Dr. Codgell will teach a
freshman seminar on the history of eugenics in the United States, and she will
teach a 300-level art history seminar in the spring.