Alumni in the News: Emily Mohr (MA '15) Wins Award

Emily Mohr (MA '15) wins first prize in the 2023 AIA Graduate Student Paper Awards.

Emily Mohr (MA '15), who is now pursuing a PhD in Art, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke University, won first prize in the 2023 Graduate Student Paper Awards, sponsored by the American Institute of Archaeology (AIA), for her paper “Nikandre Who Contends with Men: A Reconsideration of Nikandre’s Dedication on Delos.”

In the words of the Award Committee: "This paper was well organized, strongly argued, and beautifully illustrated. Taking the well-known Nikandre statue as the subject of the paper, this author offers a new translation of its dedicatory inscription, suggesting that Nikandre was honored as a woman with an unusual degree of prestige for a female, even offering that her name itself is a feminized form of a name more often associated with men based on its use in literary and epigraphical sources. The paper further contextualizes the statue in its original position in close proximity to a temple that was possibly dedicated to both Artemis and Apollo. The Graduate Student Paper Award Committee was particularly impressed with the originality of research in offering a new translation and interpretation of this sculpture and its inscription. The suggestion of a broadened, less rigidly defined view of gender roles in early Archaic Greece is an important contribution to the field. The author’s use of interdisciplinary evidence, including architectural contexts, sculptural styles, and epigraphic forms is commendable. We look forward to further contributions from this scholar in the future."

Congratulations to Emily!