Schewe Award & Welcome Back Reception

Join us for the Annual Presentation of the Schewe Award for Best Graduate Student Paper during the 2017-18 academic year. This year’s winner is Michelle Prestholt, Ph.D student, for her paper entitled “Oppositional Identities: The Monstrous …

Professor Casid delivers Berlin lecture

  As part of the lecture series Intensify Desire at the Kunsthistorisches Institut at the Freie Universitat in Berlin organized by Christian Liclair and Susanne Huber, Professor Casid presented, “Queer Deformativity: Mark Morrisroe, Jack Pierson, …

2018 Undergraduate Prize Winners

  The Department is pleased to announce the winners of our 2018 Undergraduate Prizes. Hoyon Mephokee wins the Warfield Family Essay Prize for his paper (written for Prof. Nancy Rose Marshall’s seminar), “Exploring the Exotic: …

Andrzejewski’s new Florida research

Prof. Anna Andrzejewski presented her paper on vacation/retirement communities built by the Mackle Company in Florida at the 2018 meeting of the Vernacular Architecture Forum in Alexandria, Virginia, on May 5. She envisions this as …

Christy Wahl awarded DAAD grant

  Christy Wahl, Ph.D. Candidate, has been awarded a research grant through the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst or DAAD). This generous grant, funded by the German government and the European Union, provides …

Another Fellowship for Lindsay Wells

  In Fall 2018 Lindsay Wells will research her dissertation on Victorian indoor gardening and the Aesthetic Movement at the Armstrong Browning Library at Baylor University. Lindsay looks forward to encountering the resident spirit who …

Student Wins Hilldale Fellowship

      Art History undergraduate student Hayley Huston has received a prestigious Hilldale Fellowship to conduct research during summer 2018. Her advisor, Prof. Yuhang Li, is supervising progress on Hayley’s honor thesis entitled “Transmedia …