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Julia
Carr-Trebelhorn 

Bio

I am a historian of art and science, as well as a practicing artist and potter.

 

I had questions that I couldn’t answer about clay and ceramics, so I went back to school to study materials science and engineering and wound up adding foreign languages to the mix. (Or possibly vice versa!)

 

I was incredibly lucky when I found the project on the life of Alexandre Brongniart because I knew my education and interests had given me exactly what I needed to bridge the artistic, social, and scientific themes of his complex career. In the process, the writing taught me more about eighteenth- and nineteenth-century global art, science, politics, and culture. But it also taught me more about everything.

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I went to England in 2014 to start my project on Brongniart. My Oxford study was supported initially by Professor Pietro Corsi. When he retired from Oxford, Professor Robert Iliffe became my supervisor. Both of these historians have had a profound effect on my work and thinking. 

 

I came back to KY for the holiday break in late 2019, just before the Covid-19 pandemic changed how we did everything. Away from archives, museums, seminars, and lectures, I wrote intensively. Then I found a local palaeontology group through which I was able to learn about the history of the earth and stratigraphy from direct study. This led me to a one-year grant-funded job in the geological core archives of the Kentucky Geological Survey, which was an invaluable experience in practical applications of geology and geological science.

 

I practice French and Italian regularly, have relaxed on learning Chinese, keep trying to get more German in, and possibly some Greek.

 

In early 2025, I will be back in the studio more frequently, concentrating on painting, drawing, interior design, and pottery-making!

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New Bike - First Days in Oxford in 2014

Education

University of Oxford, DPhil, History of Science, Medicine, & Technology

University of KY, MA, Art History

University of KY, Materials Science and Engineering

School for American Crafts, Rochester Institute of Technology, BFA, Ceramics

University of KY, BA, English

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Employment

Historian, Reasearcher, and Artist

Last year, I worked full-time in the geological core library at the Earth Analysis Research Laboratory (EARL) of the Kentucky Geological Survey (KGS). I am currently an independent scholar at work on several publication drafts. I am also getting started in the studio again, building a portfolio of new works that I hope to begin showing later this year!

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