Assistant Professor Demi Thomloudis Named 2021 Michael F. Adams Early Career Scholar

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Demi Thomloudis who was recently named as recipient of the Michael F. Adams Early Career Scholar Award for 2021. 

Established by the UGA Research Foundation, the Michael F. Adams Early Career Scholar Award recognizes junior faculty whose research, creative and scholarly achievements indicate a trajectory toward an exceptional, sustained research career and an imminent rise to international stature in their field of study. Named in honor of the University of Georgia’s 21st President, this awards denotes outstanding accomplishment and evidence of potential future success in scholarship, creative work or research by an early career faculty members in the arts and humanities.

Demi Thomloudis, assistant professor in the Lamar Dodd School of Art, is an accomplished researcher in the small, intensely competitive field of contemporary jewelry. Her investigation of the human body and its relationship to jewelry has manifested in consistently strong works of art that challenge assumptions about jewelry and its meaning, power and value. Her research, which explores jewelry’s capacity to express the interrelationship of person and place, has earned her an international reputation in the field, as well as numerous accolades and invitations to participate in prestigious exhibitions and residencies. Over the last five years, she has had four two-person exhibitions and one solo exhibition; invitations to exhibit in 20 internationally recognized group and juried exhibitions; 28 nationally recognized exhibits; and was included in dozens of books, articles, exhibition catalogs, newspapers and online media that have reviewed or reproduced images of her work.

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