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Michael Agresta

Toy Story

April 10, 2025 by Michael Agresta

COLA alumnus Jeremy Padawer has transformed the toy industry with a keen sense for how collectors think

Carmen, Chameleon

April 2, 2025 by Michael Agresta

Jennifer Wilks tracks an opera heroine’s many guises, from Bizet to Beyoncé

A Place to Belong

September 11, 2024 by Michael Agresta

With her gift to the Program in Native American and Indigenous Studies at UT, Mary Braunagel-Brown supports students as they find their footing on campus

Ashley Bennett, son of photographer H.H. Bennett, jumping to Stand Rock, caught in midair by the instantaneous shutter. Modern print from original stereograph negative half, 1886.

Pictures Snapping into Place

October 30, 2023 by Michael Agresta

Steven Hoelscher brings a geographer’s critical eye to the study of photography and history.

The Oracle of the Enlightenment 

March 27, 2023 by Michael Agresta

How did one of the 18th century’s greatest students of Rome become its foremost voice for balance and moderation in the construction of the modern state?

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