Urte is a PhD student in modern European history, with a focus on nationalism and socialism in early 20th-century Eastern Europe. She is interested in how concepts and identities of class and nation created new forms of social mobilization in the ‘borderlands’ of the...

Sheena McKeever studies early modern craft practices in Western Europe, with particular attention to Italian art. Her research explores how artisans and restorers understood and worked with materials—especially in the making, alteration, and repair of stone sculpture....