Digital Scholarship Graduate Fellows Showcase

Digital Scholarship Graduate Fellows Illizst Castillo, Hilde Nelson, and Yuzhu Wang will be presenting on their work using digital tools to explore art history and archaeology research, including: IIIF tools for film annotation, 3D modeling in Blender, and Photogrammetry/3D scanning. Illizt Castillo is a PhD student in the Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology department. She received a BA in English Language and Literature, a BA in Classics, and an MA in Comparative Literature from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). In 2023, she received an MA in Archaeology from Bryn Mawr College. Her research interests focus on the transmission of manufacturing techniques and iconography of bronzes through networks of exchange between Etruscan and Italic peoples. As a digital scholarship fellow, Illizt is interested in 3D modeling, GIS, and the integration of Digital Humanities in pedagogy and the public engagement of Archaeology beyond museums. Hilde Nelson is a third-year graduate student in the History of Art department at Bryn Mawr. Her work considers questions of visuality and the otherwise in contemporary time-based media, especially film and video, as they are inflected by race, gender, and sexuality. She received her BA with honors in History from the University of Chicago in 2015 and her MA in the History of Art from the Williams College Graduate Program in 2017. She is the former Curatorial Assistant for Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art, where she curated Naudline Pierre: What Could Be Has Not Yet Appeared, the artist’s first solo museum exhibition. She has also held positions at Creative Time, Julius Caesar Gallery, and the Williams College Museum of Art. In conjunction with the Incubation initiative, she co-curated the group exhibitions reverb (2023) and Theories of Relativity (2024), both featuring the work of second-year Penn MFA students. Her writing has been published in the Visual Resources journal and in exhibition catalogs for What Could Be Has Not Yet Appeared—for which she also served as editor—and the 2022 exhibition Matthew Wong: The Realm of Appearances at the DMA. Yuzhu Wang is a graduate student in the Department of History of Art, focusing on Medieval Chinese religious and funerary art. She holds a BA in Archaeology from Renmin University of China (2015) and an MA in Art History from Tufts University (2019). Yuzhu is interested in how digital tools like 3D scanning and digital replication can bring artistic objects and spaces to life in immersive, interactive formats. She is also passionate about using these technologies in teaching to create more engaging and dynamic learning experiences.