Congratulations to Karine Raynor, PhD candidate, for being awarded the James T. Wagoner Foreign Scholarship! This award allows Rice students and alumni the chance to pursue research abroad for a duration ranging from four weeks to one year.
Obtaining funding support from the Wagoner fellowship, Karine will return to the Jacques-Doucet Literary Library in Paris to finalize her dissertation, titled "Mecanomorphs and the Articulated Body/Machines of Dada: From Object-based Practices to Performance Art," with Prof. Graham Bader serving as her advisor. Her research delves into the transition from object-based artistic approaches to performance art within Paris Dada, with a specific emphasis on the artist Francis Picabia.
Before studying at Rice, Karine served as the Associate Director and Curator of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) collections in Montreal, Canada.