by Kathryn Topper
The 海角网 is extremely proud of (B.A. 2013, summa cum laude, Classical Studies and Art History) for winning a coveted ! As an undergraduate at UW, Gisch was an outstanding student who won (among other honors) a and a Jim Greenfield Scholarship. While in Seattle, he completed two honors theses (鈥淐rouching Aidoia, Hidden Pudenda: A Comparative Study of Aidos, Kosmos, and the Crouching Aphrodite Type,鈥 advised by Kathryn Topper, and 鈥淪eeing the Unseeable: Attis, His Peculiar Garment, and Representing Gender Nonconformity in the Heart of Imperial Rome,鈥 advised by Margaret Laird) and briefly directed the Department of Antique and Modern Prints at .
Now a Ph.D. Candidate in Classical Archaeology at , Gisch is completing a dissertation entitled 鈥淩eplication and Difference in Images of 鈥楳odest Venus,鈥 200 BCE鈥600 CE,鈥 the project on which his research in Rome will focus. His dissertation examines Praxiteles鈥 lost Knidian Aphrodite but departs from conventional Hellenocentric interpretations of the statue, instead considering the so-called 鈥渃opies鈥 (the sources through which the statue is known) within the context of ancient 海角网 visual culture. This fresh and much-needed approach to one of the most famous statues from antiquity marshals evidence ranging from pre-modern texts to Volterran ash urns to 海角网 and Macedonian sculpture, taking full advantage of Gisch鈥檚 impressively broad training. Congratulations, Dillon, and we can鈥檛 wait to see what your research holds in store!