David Bardeen (Ph.D., 2024), has received the 2025 Carl S. Meyer Prize awarded by the Sixteenth Century Society on October 31, 2025 at a conference in Portland, Oregon for his paper, “Toward a Nonhuman History of Renaissance Art (Worms).”
The prize is awarded to the best paper delivered at the society’s annual conference by a scholar who has earned his Ph.D. in the last five years.
An article based on the paper will be published in the Sixteenth Century Journal, and it is part of a larger book project.
David says, “I’m grateful to my former advisor Bronwen Wilson and others in the department for inspiring me to think about Renaissance and early modern art in innovative ways. In this case, what if we consider works of art as biomes for worm and insect life, and pests in artist’s materials as generative?”
David is also a new Assistant Curator for European Painting and Sculpture at LACMA.
For more details about this award, click here.
Congratulations David!
