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: …
Year: 2018
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 …
An Evening with Ako Castuera & Rob Sato
Join the Art History Society Thursday, April 26th, from 6:00–7:00 PM in Elvehjem for an evening with Ako Castuera and Rob Sato! It’s a rare opportunity to meet and talk with the esteemed artists before …
Museum & Curatorial Studies Panel
On Thursday, May 3rd from 4:00 pm to 5:00 PM (in room L170 of the Conrad A. Elvehjem Building) the Art History Dept., in conjunction with SuccessWorks, is co-sponsoring a Museum and Curatorial Studies Panel …
Lindsay Wells is new Winterthur Fellow
Lindsay Wells has received the Dissertation Fellowship at the Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library in Wilmington, DE. She plans to take up residency for the Spring semester of 2019 to utilize both the …
UW faculty, students, alums at VAF
Faculty and students in architectural history will assemble in Alexandria, Virginia, May 3-5, and among them with be those associated with Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures (past and present). Among those giving papers are Professors Anna Andrzejewski and Arijit …
Casid awarded Clark-Oakley Fellowship
Jill H. Casid, Professor of Visual Studies in the Department of Art History and the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, has been named the Clark-Oakley Fellow for 2018-19 and will spend the year …